When my first child was born, the nurses said, “Boy, he’s a loud one.” I realized later that if the nurses were saying that, he really had lungs on him. Just about every night we’d go through “happy hour” which usually involved us cradling and jiggling our little guy around while he eventually […]
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Ye upcoming Talk Like a Pirate Day
Tuesday, September 16, 2008
September 19th is Talk Like a Pirate Day. Arrrr! My children are well versed at running around yelling, “Arrrrr!” but soon they will be blessed with our ongoing evolution of piratedom. Names.
I’m partial to this one: Rancid Billy Dread
Get your own using this easy generator or do a more involved quiz at […]
A proud day in a father’s life
Friday, August 22, 2008
Today my oldest boy asked me, “Daddy, how did you build the internet?”
Now admittedly I didn’t build it. But I realized in that moment, in my son’s eyes, I could have.
I’m a geek, and a dad, and I’m proud.
iCal -> gCal CalDAV migration….with a Nokia N95 and isync
Wednesday, August 6, 2008
Round 2 - it doesn’t look like you can sync events created on the phone to the gcal caldav calendar.
iCal -> gCal CalDAV migration
Wednesday, August 6, 2008
As soon as this came out I jumped into using (and we’re switching my company to it…today!). One problem I’ve run into is that my exported calendar is 2.4 MB. Google isn’t able to import that so I’m going to have to migrate over slowly.
Weber Q100 “Baby Q”
Monday, August 4, 2008
I broke down and picked up a Weber “Baby Q” Q100 and a rolling cart for transport. Should be good for car camping and beach days!
Spending most of my time on twitter these days, there has to be a good way to integrate the two so that information isn’t silo’d over there.
Nokia N95 firmware upgrade on a Macbook Air
Thursday, July 24, 2008
This is largely for the search engines. I used a parallels winxp image and a usb cable. I used the Nokia Software Updater. I backed up my files using Nokia Multimedia Transfer on the mac first, just in case.
No problems at all, w00t!
Fido/Rogers does…..goodish
Wednesday, July 23, 2008
Rogers/Fido has dropped their prices and increased their data allowances with the recent uproar over the release of the iPhone 3G in Canada. A quick call to Fido and my charges have gone from $100 for 200 MB to $30 for 300 MB. It’s not unlimited but I can’t fault them for reducing […]
Voicemail - I’m not alone
Saturday, July 5, 2008
Michael Arrington has affirmed my voicemail habits - I am not alone. I’ve gotten very good at:
a) looking at my missed calls and just calling the person back or
b) hitting 7, 7 within 2 or 3 seconds of listening to a voice mail, deleting it.
This has consequences. My wife now leaves messages like, […]
AG mobile
Wednesday, April 2, 2008
I’m using my phone quite a bit these days for mobile internet/bluetooth modem. Most sites I hit show full web pages by default; I can’t think of one that gives me a mobile version by default. Bandwidth plans in Canada are pretty pricey so it can be quite annoying to watch MB burn […]
