Canada Day and Bluesfest update

July 18th, 2009

Added some photos for a couple of events that I attended recently.   Canada Day in Ottawa was pretty exciting, here are a couple of pictures from the fireworks that night. A few weeks later Our Lady Peace came to town for Cicso Ottawa Bluesfest and put on an awesome show.  Some photos below.

Double Decker Busses in Ottawa – Pretty Nifty

July 6th, 2009

Pretty interesting – it seems Ottawa has ordered a few double decker busses recently and they travel a route I frequent. Now if only the top floor had some more headroom…

It’s so bad its funny – Part II

July 4th, 2009

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I think this guy might have a record for the number of things he bolted onto his car. Seri0usly, once this POS travels any faster than 70, all that crap he put on is going fall off. From what I can see here, we’ve got:

  • Three Roof scoops
  • Single winsheild wiper blade
  • Two hood scoops
  • 4 other vents in the hood
  • Quarter panel vents above the wheelwell

It’s so bad its funny – Part I

July 4th, 2009

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Now normally, I wouldnt say too much about something like this, but if you have a look at this fella’s roof, you’ll see a little white thing sticking up. At first glance, you’d think it was a roof scoop – after all, it does look like he wants this car to look like a Subaru Impretza with that horrible spoiler. On close examination, it looks like a simple flap or vent that is pointed up. Not sure what it is supposed to be, but he makes the cut for “Its soo bad its funny”

Easy integration with Picasa and WordPress

July 4th, 2009

While setting up this blog, I needed a quick and easy way to get photos from my computer up onto my website.  I didn’t want to be messing around opening my FTP manager, creating thumbnails and jumping through all those hoops.  I use Picasa to manage all my photos on my computer, so ideally it [...]

Product Demo for a Sawzall blade

June 21st, 2009

Not long ago, a wise salesman named E decided to give us one of his products to try out. The product in question is a Miwaukee Axe blade for a reciprocating saw – sawzall for short. This is a 12-inch long blade with teeth bigger than the ones in your mouth. I’ve heard these blades are marketed to firefighters doing search & rescue to help them cut their way through a house in as little time as possible. We thought we could find some better uses for these blades

Honda Civic Transmission Change

June 18th, 2009

So a little while ago, my brother’s 1995 Honda Civic Si seemed to develop some transmission problems.  Estimated cost to replace the transmission – $2000.  Thankfully for him, he happened to have a second Honda Civic ready for this exact occasion.  Same type of car, 4-door saloon instead of an si coupe, but pretty much [...]

How I built my Media Center

May 27th, 2009

Setting up a Media Center – top to bottom I’ve been using an old laptop for the past few months to watch divx movies and downloaded TV shows on my TV. Its been working out pretty good, but now I’ve decided it was time to fully integrate a Windows Media Center into my home theatre [...]

Ghost Recon

May 24th, 2009

One of my favorite games of all time – Ghost Recon. Not Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter, not Ghost Recon 2, but old school Ghost Recon Classic. I though I would post a few things here that are pretty cool about Ghost Recon. I’ve got some pic buried on my hard drive of playing Ghost Recon [...]

Configuring Remote Desktop for Media Centers

March 29th, 2009

Remote desktop configuration Ok, so now that you have a Media Center computer set up, there are many more things we can do with it.  If your Media Center is hooked up to your TV, you probably don’t want to have to be sitting in front of that system to do all your housekeeping, such [...]