Tuesday, January 20th, 2009
Since I post so infrequently I thought I would make an update to let you all know just what I’m up to.
Currently I am:
- A fulltime (5 courses) student in the School of Business at the University of Alberta
- Also the IT Director (glorified webmaster) for the Business Students Association at the U of A.
- The sole owner of 3rd on Whyte, an Internet Cafe located at 201, 10351 Whyte Avenue, in Edmonton, Alberta.
- The founder of the Free WiFi Project which is slowly slowly starting to bring free wireless Internet access to public spaces in Edmonton. I’ve almost finished the payment system for that so check back soon and get a router!
- On the Old Strathcona Business Association Board of Directors.
- Involved in various web development projects and I am looking at starting a web development firm with my best friend Rob.
- Playing rec league ball hockey with my buds, even though I played basketball all the from elementary school until my second year of college. Our ball hockey team sucks isn’t that bad, btw.
- Still finding time for my amazing girlfriend, Megan.
- Oh, and I’ve started swimming a kilometre a day to try and get back in shape!
Busy busy!
Thursday, January 8th, 2009
Cleaning out my friend’s old HP Pavilion 522n required using ONLY the 8 recovery CD’s to reinstall Windows XP Home.
After an hour of just uninstalling the default crap I started up IE to go to Windows Update’s site and I was greeted with this.
Apparently Microsoft assumes that the only reason you will go to runonce.msn.com is if you are installing IE 7. IE 6 also claimed the site had errors on the page, lol.
Monday, January 5th, 2009
From http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu:
Ubuntu website screenshot
I went to download Ubuntu for an extra computer I have and I was presented with these options. Apparently Ubuntu thinks that ordering a CD and waiting 6-10 weeks is better than waiting for 700mb even on the slowest connection.
Monday, December 29th, 2008
If Corsair can produce a 64GB USB flash drive that’s the size of my finger why can’t Dell or Acer or any laptop maker throw three or four of these puppies into a laptop. And what’s with the 8GB solid state drives? I can’t do much with that.
On the laptop note… when am I going to finally get my dual screen laptop? I want a 14″ laptop that has dual touch screens where one replaces the keyboards we now use. It should also fold flat and click together like a tentpole so I can use it as one big tablet. I’d create some illustrations but my non-touchscreen laptop would take too long. I wonder if there’s a WordPress plugin for sketches to an image…
Saturday, December 27th, 2008
No, I’m not dead. I was in Europe for four months and didn’t have much of interest to post 