Archive for the 'Fun' Category



New World Record for Sending Camera to Atmosphere? The Great Balloon Chase sends camera up 37.28KM.

A buddy of mine helped to send a camera up this weekend in the Great Balloon Chase. Pretty neat stuff. They may have even beaten a world record, how cool is that.
From the Home Page

An excellent mission where almost everything went right! The prep, launch event, flight and chase could not have gone much [...]

Even Canucks can get Free Swag from Feedburner/Google! Got ours Today

Check it out, a couple fancy stickers and two fancy buttons with the feedburner logo. Hot!

Small Outage – Sorry about that!

Hello,
Sorry to all our readers, we experienced a catastrophic failure over the weekend on one of our servers. It happened to be hosting this site
We are back (thank goodness for anal backups eh?) and everything is running. Please let us know if you encounter any weirdness.
Thanks for your understanding, and we are doing [...]

Our “Datacenter” in the home

Here’s a quick shot of our little mini datacenter..

Custom Computer Desk finally Arrived. Built it last night!

I finally got my new desk today. I custom built it from TableLegsOnline.com. They were very helpful, and even gave me a full refund for one of the legs that got slightly dinged during shipment.
Here’s a picture of the fancyness…

It’s large, has a turqouise translucent trim, and is abour 1.25″ thick, with a weight capacity [...]

Fix SMS Time Issues on Rogers/FIDO Unlocked GSM/3G Windows Mobile 5/6 SmartPhones/PocketPC’s

FIX: You need to add this to the registry: Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\OEM\PhoneSetting\
Add a dword key “TrustTimeZoneField” and give it a dword value of 0
then soft reset your phone.
enjoy!