Today we were out and about and visited a few of the lesser-known areas around Renfrew and area. We hit the Tatlock Mine, Mountainview chute dam, Fourth Chutes near Eganville, and the ghost town of Backlava. Here are some photos we took.
Also, check out the map below for the locations of the photos on the map.
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.
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…
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:
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”
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 would hook up to that easily.
What I came up with was using NextGEN Gallery for WordPress. It seemed like a pretty easy way to manage my albums and galleries without getting too involved. I was also able to utilize Picasa’s experimental publish to FTP feature.
Heres how to get started:
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
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 the same. So – we had all the tools we needed between him, myself, and our other brother, we had a place to do the job (his parking lot), and we had a spare transmission. What could go wrong?
Oh, but how things did go wrong – horribly too, might I add. Our first problem was not having an engine hoist to you know, lift the engine out of the car once we had it unbolted. Luckily, a friend of mine Craig (Shameless Link to his site) happened to be doing a complete … Read the rest
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 setup.
I wanted the media center to act as a server for all my media (music, tv, movies, photos). I want to be able access the media on this computer from anywhere on my network and also outside my home netowrk as well.
I had a few parts leftover from a recent upgrade of my primary desktop, add in a tuner, and I was set to go with the following setup:
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 during the glory days, but for now all I have is a wicked awesome new mod compiled by Apex. It is called Ghost Recon: Heroes Unleashed. The website is here: www.heroesunleashed.net/
I have opted to mirror his mod, which you can download here (~900MB). You can view the thread at ghostrecon.net to see what Apex has done with this mod. Enjoy the mod, it is one of the best in a while.… Read the rest
