Archive for the 'Personal' Category

Finally broke down and bought a Nintendo Wii today.  I didn’t think they were still in such high demand but it took a few trips to various stores before I managed to secure a console.  Cost an extra $10 or $20 but Toys R Us had one in stock.
Haven’t bought any games yet but did [...]

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 [...]

The Flash

The Flash

85%

Iron Man

80%

Green Lantern

70%

Hulk

65%

Spider-Man

60%

Catwoman

60%

Superman

60%

Robin

45%

Wonder Woman

43%

Supergirl

43%

Batman

30%

Fast, athletic and flirtatious.

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Venom

Venom

75%

Dr. Doom

71%

Lex Luthor

65%

Juggernaut

64%

Apocalypse

58%

Dark Phoenix

55%

Mr. Freeze

54%

The Joker

52%

Riddler

51%

Kingpin

49%

Mystique

44%

Magneto

44%

Catwoman

37%

Green Goblin

36%

Two-Face

24%

Poison Ivy

24%

Strength, disguise and adrenaline are your greatest weapons.

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I’m sure everyone is well aware of the storms that have been hitting the west coast of Canada but the past couple weeks have been particularly bad.
We’ve been without power at work a few times in the past couple of weeks (not so good for a technology company) and there’s a lot of trees down [...]

Wii
XBox
XBox 360
PS2
iPod (to replace my on-again off-again Creative Zen Micro)

Finally decided to cash in some credit card points for Futureshop gift certificates and have yet to decide what to buy.
I’ve already got the Plasma TV (and La-z Boy recliner) so I’m covered on that front.  I did buy a Game Cube at it’s launch but [...]

I was in Mexico a couple weeks ago and I come back to this…
The first snow storm of the year happened yesterday and it was pretty rough by Victoria standards. The city was essentially shutdown today, no buses, no university, and no work for me.
I may live in Canada, but I don’t live in [...]

Only in Victoria I say.
It’s not often that I find out something that’s happening locally from a site like Slashdot. But this article is saying that we’re getting urinals that rise automagically from the ground. Supposed to curb our rampant practice of peeing in public and for a mere pittance of $75,000. [...]

I’ve decided to take next week off and book a last minute trip to Puerto Vallarta.
Looking forward to it… Last year I made it down to the Mayan Riveria for a couple weeks and given that we’ve entered the rainy season here on the west coast, it’ll be nice to see some sun again.
I’m not [...]




  • 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 ...