Archive for February, 2007

I posted a few days ago about my trials and tribulations surrounding buying a home.
Turns out that everything worked out in the end and I’m now (assuming subject to’s come off) the owner of a new townhouse.
I’m not looking forward to moving, but it’ll be nice to have a place of my own.  I’ll only [...]

A couple weeks back I decided it was time to _try_ and enter the real estate market.  If you don’t know Victoria, it’s a fairly desirable west coast city to live in with not a lot of options when it comes to affordable housing.  Average price for a house is easily ~400k+ and the townhouses/condos [...]

Noticed an interesting CBC article discussing the benefits of siestas on heart health. Supposedly the benefits are even more pronounced in males.
Now it would be next to impossible to have such a thing in my current office situation but at least I’m fortunate enough to be able to spend my lunch hour working out [...]

It’s almost been a year since JavaOne… you know the one with Marc Fluery up on stage in a red beret and the rest of the crew (notably Bill Burke) sporting the same goofy hat at one point or another.
I bet it’s been an interesting ride for Marc and it’s not really a surprise to [...]




  • Pet Peeve: Don’t email my password to me in plain text You know the drill. Signup for some random service on the internet Receive a confirmation email with your account information or Forget a password for some random service ...

  • Eclipise Memory Analyzer (MAT) I must say the Eclipse Memory Analyzer looks pretty slick. There is some pretty good material over on the developers blog. Lastly, there was a talk on it ...

  • Open-source Web-based Code Review Tool: Rietveld Guido van Rossum, of Python fame, has recently released a Django-based application that enables web-based code reviews... Rietveld. It supports any language and currently can hook into Subversion repositories. You ...

  • An implementation of the JVM in Javascript? Caught this over on JavaPosse Google Groups. Essentially, some bright fellows over in Japan have developed a bytecode->javascript compiler. There's a demo floating around that took a Tetris ...

  • Facebook Chat? So it looks like the Facebook Chat service has finally started rolling out to my network (Facebook Chat has been mentioned previously). Not quite sure how ...





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    • Meetings all day, no time to hit the gym. Guess I better go now.... 6:30am.
    • Played around with Fring for a couple minutes tonight, Skype seemed to work (if only to call a test account of mine). 3G would be nice! :)
    • Watched nick and norahs tonight. Have to admit that it was pretty funny. Two weeks until W, wonder what that's going to be like.
    • Locly is a pretty sweet location-based app for the iPhone. Should have busted it out last week in Seattle.

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