Archive for May 2009

Now I Lay Me Down To Sleep

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 [...]

What’s In Your Office Fridge?

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 [...]

Wi-Fi Connections In Trouble

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 [...]

Do You Back Up Your Computer’s Hard Drive?

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 [...]

Nigerian Scams

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.

Pizza and Vampires

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. [...]

Hockey Night in Canada

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 [...]