Posted on May 14, 2009, 7:47 am, by GrandpaRichard, under
News.
According to stories coming out of Pearson, Canada’s busiest airport, a 40 year old woman has been living there for a month. Since Pearson is open 24 hours a day year round, it is not impossible to do so. She blended in due to her use of a pink suitcase, but staff started to recognize [...]
Posted on May 13, 2009, 6:36 am, by GrandpaRichard, under
News.
More than once I have found alien substances in our office fridge. I do not dare open the containers they are in, lest I release a horrible plague in our fair city. I find the colour schemes interesting and I wonder especially when the container is one of those more expensive real Tupperware ones. I [...]
Posted on May 12, 2009, 10:48 pm, by GrandpaRichard, under
News.
Are you using a wireless router for your computers to connect to the internet? Seems that in some situations people are getting less than advertised speed from their units, and the problem is not directly the fault of the router or your wireless computer. The criminal is the baby monitor, or other similar devices. Even [...]
Posted on May 12, 2009, 8:17 pm, by GrandpaRichard, under
Advice.
If you lost everything on your computer’s hard drive, how hard would you cry? If you do perform backups, where do you keep the backups? Right next to the computer? Ha! The following is a very techie kind of article, but I thought it was cool. Click here to read about the way some serious [...]
Posted on May 12, 2009, 6:41 pm, by GrandpaRichard, under
News.
No. This is not an article on how to protect yourself from scams. It is an article about people who “play” the scammers. Read it here.
Posted on May 11, 2009, 6:44 pm, by GrandpaRichard, under
Humour.
New TV ad. LOL!!! Father is talking to daughter about her vampire boyfriend. She says he is not a vampire, he is just Goth. Father then presents some fresh pizza. Not from a pizza place, but Delissio. Daughter says, wow, definitely garlic bread, hey dad. Yup. Door bell rings and daughter offers boyfriend some pizza. [...]
Posted on May 7, 2009, 3:10 am, by GrandpaRichard, under
News.
I am not much of a hockey now, but when I was young (and there were only 6 NHL teams) I was a huge fan. Another huge fan (more famous than I) is RIM’s Mr. Balsillie. He is attempting, for the 3rd time, to buy an NHL team and bring it to southern Ontario. And [...]