Friday, September 19, 2008

How to treat your enemies

The gang at xxxchurch.com show us how to treat those who are, technically, our enemies!

Monday, June 30, 2008

Refreshing our short memories. XP's woes worse than Vista's.

Vista is actually miles ahead of where XP was one year after it's release. Those of us who can remember XP was a disaster when it came out with huge security issues and compatibility problems. Vista has been a cake-walk in comparison. Give you head a shake and remember the "good old days"!

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Tuesday, November 27, 2007

Just Won Baby!!!

It's a great day in Rider Nation. Congrats to the boys for a job well done. We may not have won pretty... but we won and that's the whole point!!!

Thursday, November 15, 2007

Wait a minute... those extra 14 pounds aren't going to kill me?

So having a little of that "baby fat" hang around until you are in your 50's maybe ain't such a bad thing after all! Isn't great to live in such mixed messaged times! :)

Friday, August 03, 2007

Houston, we have gotten rid of Vista!


OK. So I installed Vista on my sweet LG S1 laptop (OK, it's not mine... but I like to think it is).
This list of problems forced me to go back to XP!
  1. Somehow Vista sucks video signal out of the machine making our 100ft run of VGA cable from the projector suddenly too long. Vista magically sucks bandwidth out of the signal going out on the external video port. Weird. (Yes, I turned off all of the eye candy on Vista to no avail). The projector image was glitchy every 3 seconds or so... and, sometimes, Vista would go nuts blinking on and off trying to find the external monitor and then not finding it and then finding it... etc. When I put XP back on.... everything was fine again.
  2. Video editing sucks. My Ulead software just wouldn't work (I have subsequently found some updates that I could have tried). Nero 6 just plain won't work (7 apparently does but I don't want to buy it). Windows Movie Maker looked promising but it won't accept MP4 videos! Unreal. So I installed some codecs to make it work and all exported video was garbelled and useless. I quit trying right there.
  3. File transfer speeds were slower! Whether I was copying across the network or on the hard disk things were slower.... noticeably slower.
  4. My webcam didn't work.
  5. My office printer kept saying it was "unavailable"... I quit right there.
There are some things I liked too... but, unfortunately, these were game breakers. Now, do I try to send it back and get my Shipping and Handling back?

Saturday, July 28, 2007

Houston, we have Vista!!!


Yes, it's true. My Vista disk came today.... 6 months (almost) after I ordered it. Next time I'm gonna walk and get it myself.!

Wednesday, June 20, 2007

Vista Upgrade from LG... and waiting.

Still... we have no joy with our Vista upgrade from LG and Microsoft's folks at Moduslink. We're now well in to the fifth month and they still have my $68.

I did call LG today, yet again and they promised an email response tomorrow.

In the meantime.... enjoy this:

Tuesday, June 12, 2007

Building the better Motorcycle

Yet another video that answers life's toughest questions. This time... "how do they build a Rocket 3 Triumph motorcycle?

Wednesday, June 06, 2007

To the Victors... the Spoils


Way to go Anaheim. The team formerly known as Mighty and pulled it off. Makes me proud to have recently lived only 3000 kms away in Kitimat. Wow. So close.

Friday, May 25, 2007

The Prairies Rejoice!!!!


While the popluation of Saskatchewan continues to hover just under a million people... the population of gophers continues to skyrocket!! WHO WILL SAVE US?

My buddy Lee has invented the better gopher trap. Easy to use. Humane. Works! Farmers are starting to the light at the end of the gopher tunnel as people snap up Lee's gopher traps as fast as he can make them.

Check Lee's Gopher Trap out here.

Saturday, May 12, 2007

While I'm still waiting... a golf lesson

Finally. A clear and understandable explanation of how to hit that goofy golf ball!

Thursday, April 12, 2007

Tuesday, March 27, 2007

Just in case you were wondering about this today...

Since it is snowing here today I thought this story would be helpful.
How to avoid and, if necessary, survive an gator/croc attack.

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Monday, March 19, 2007

So... how long is too long!???

OK. So now it has been over a month and a half since my order... featuring FEDEX topping shipping prices. Really though. Is this not too long?