Archive for the 'Personal' Category



Just returned from Microsoft Tech Days 2008 in Ottawa

And I got a buttload of free stuff from Tech Days 2008. Including, but not limited to – a Microsoft sticker, a cool toque, a spoon that also functions as a pen, a technet 6 month subscription, tech ed dvd sets, vs pro 2008, expression web, and a bunch of demo software. All in all [...]

Cool, looks like I’m in the PS3 Home Beta. Along with thousands of others no doubt.

WELCOME TO HOME BETA
Dear PlayStation®Network member,
Congratulations, you have been selected to help beta test PlayStation®Home!
We appreciate your help in making the PlayStation®Home experience the best it can be! Please log in to Home this evening from 6 pm – 8 pm PST for a big celebration of Version 1.0 and a load test of our [...]

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 [...]

Happy Canadian Thanksgiving!

Happy Turkey Day!!

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 [...]