OK this is great – for those that use Skype (IP phone communications) you can now dial a real phone number in the USA and Canada for free. Some background: Skype is a software-based voice (and video!) chat system that works over the Net. With a headset and/or speakers and microphone you can chat system-to-system [...]
OK… so, went to see a movie recently. One of those movies that’s good on the big screen, so why not. We all know there are a few coming down the pipe too. Well, here’s a few why nots: the price was tolerable, but frankly only because we’ve all been conditioned to make it tolerable. [...]
Truly classic. Enjoy.
Well, believe it or not, I have now run a 10km race. But let’s clarify – not really a race, more like a run. And not really “run”, more like jogged. But hey, it’s a start ;). The 2006 Vancouver Sun Run was held last Sunday (April 24 2006) and I, along with over 50000 [...]
So after we got back from DC and reviewed our pictures, I was disappointed to see that many of them were suffering from noise and/or dead pixels. This is a phenomenon with digital cameras, and at least in my opinion shows signs of age if the number of dead “spots” increases as time goes by. [...]
Got back Wednesday night, about midnight. Late but no problems – good to be back in BC again but very much enjoyed the trip.
Good day today, went to the Zoo. The National Zoo, to be exact. Course, that’s not “our” nation, but hey when in DC… Spent 2 hours there, saw many – you guessed it – animals. Some unique to this visit, like a Panda (Mare was very happy): Also got close to a gorilla – very [...]
So we’ve been sightseeing for 2 days, thought we could share some pics. Lots to see here, and the weather was way better today than yesterday. The Smithsonian, as you may or may not know, is actually quite a few buildings in one. We did two today – the Museum of American History and the [...]
So the weather cleared up and off we went tonight. Jeff arrived as well so the 3 of us went out to see the monuments after a quick snack at the pub downstairs. A flat-fee cab ride downtown to the Lincoln Memorial started us off: We saw much more as well, but it’s late – [...]
And things were never the same ;)… OK, so we made it without problems. 4.5 hours flight to Montreal – here’s all I’ve seen of Montreal so far: Mare of course has seen more, being born there, but we won’t hold it against her. Got to DC via a shuttle flight, took about 90 minutes. [...]
Mare and I are heading out to Washington DC for a few days (Apr 7-12) . Conference for her, sightseeing and R&R for me…we hope to see the major sights, maybe the Pentagon, Arlington Cemetery as well. On the red-eye flight tonight, via Montreal, hope to be settled in by Saturday afternoon DC-time. I’ll keep [...]
OK so believe it or not, I have bought a Powerbook. It’s a great little unit and of course is nowhere near Microsoft-land. I have to say I’m impressed so far. The battery life is amazing (usually between 4 and 5 hours with WiFi ON!) and the O/S works like a charm. Granted in Windows [...]
OK this might get expensive. As you might know, I use a Home Theatre PC in my home. It’s currently a Pentium III PC running Beyond TV and does a pretty OK job of recording about 80 hours of shows at a good quality. We’ve come to depend on it and in fact take it [...]
Now we’re talking…as a big fan of the game, it’s always good to see that I’m not the only one that likes to play it seriously. Interesting data here, some that frequent players have known for a long time – such as the St. James/Tennesse/New York set being the most likely place for people to [...]
Cute sayings – and of course my t-shirt is #1: There are 10 types of people in the world: those who understand binary and those who don’t but there are others that are right up there: I’m not anti-social; I’m just not user-friendly I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me [...]
Well I’m going to give it a try. Just for the colours: WinDirStat Home Page
USATODAY.com – Gaming’s bygone era relived with Atari gadget It’s only a matter of time before John gets one… and hey maybe me too ;).
OK, getting back to some more standard blogging, let’s start with some XP Tips.: WindowsXP Tips Or you could go here to find some tools that would help “improve” XP: http://www.tomshardware.com/howto/20050930/index.html
You all know me, I’m an insomniac. I usually get 4, maybe 5 hours of sleep and I’m pretty much OK. Funny how you think that living that way would make jetlag less effective. Ha. It’s what, 9:30 or so as I type this. That’s typically about 4-5 hours before I go to bed or [...]
We’re back. After a long day of flying (2 flights, one from Rome to London, the other from London to Vancouver) we are home safe and sound and ready for sleep. Everything went smoothly on disembarkation, other than the fact that the Rome to London flight was delayed by about an hour. We had a [...]
Hi all. Well, here we are at the last port of call – Genoa. More on that in a minute, but first let’s talk about Villefranche, Nice, Monaco and Monte Carlo. We arrived in Villefranche early yesterday with no fixed itinerary, but we had a pretty good idea what we wanted to do. We walked [...]
OK this was more work than I bargained for, but finally here are a couple of pictures… First, the Papal visit on the 14th: and of course the Colosseum from the Termini entrance: As for today, another “at sea” day while sailing for France. Relaxing in the sun, eating way too much (oh, Dad? Lobster [...]
Today was another Italian visit – Messina, Sicily with an excursion to Taormina. Taormina is a quaint village about 40 minutes outside of the port city of Messina (which in itself wasn’t really worth visiting, according to our Travel guy). We took a group bus (again) to Taormina and spent 3-4 hours touring around “on [...]
Mare is guest blogging today… take it away Mare: Santorini! Well, what a day. Santorini was everything I had hoped for. We started out climbing yet another volcano. The view of the Cyclades (the islands) was spectacular. The hike was only about 30 minutes straight up and the temperature was well into the thirties. Nothing [...]