One of the great joys of being a gadget guy is to shamelessly spend money on shinny new gadgets… so out of a whim (and impulse), I search high and low to find my beloved Nokia N97 and sourced it from a store in Mississauga. Here are my first impressions: The box: simple, elegant, relatively [...]
This may sound like a rant, but there’s a silver lining to my tale: A year ago I experienced a persistent cylinder misfire on my poor 1998 A6 2.8, and so I go to my trusted mechanic friend at a VW dealership and got the advice to buy new spark wires and ignition coils. In [...]
If you are a Rogers customer, you might have noticed in the past day that when you typed in a wrong website URL (or any domain name), it claims the site exists and gives you Rogers-Yahoo sponsored advertising. See an example here: http://this-domain-does-not-exist.ever Brings you to: http://www20.search.rogers.com/search?qo=this-domain-does-not-exist.ever&rn=X-AtJja2sy6ndMo Shame on you Rogers! Breaking RFC and annoy [...]
The idea of having a Afro-Centric high school being built in Toronto absolutely scares me. I know they have schools for the LGBT community because they are vulnerable, but an afro-centric school? Are we going to now run chinese-centric school because they learn better, or indian-centric school because of the need to accommodate their religion? [...]
As part of being in the mobile local industry, I get press releases for new and innovative service that has just launched. With my new “unlimited” text messaging bundle, I decide to try the service from AskMeNow.com (short code 27563). My welcome message from them was: For AskMeNow Help goto askmenow.com or 888-EZ-ASKME. Txt STOP [...]
As I was trying desperately to make it to dinner on time in Vancouver, I turned on my trusty TomTom GO 910 and plotted my way to Banana Leaf restaurant…. First mistake – not listen to my co-worker when he said it’s at 3005 W Broadway in Kitsiliano. That was 5:55pm. Second mistake – allowing TomTom [...]
During Christmas time, Jana and I decided to buy PlayStation 2 just so we can play Guitar Hero 2. Of course I bought it for more than just that reason – I love the Final Fantasy series! I decided to go to the not-so-local (and super busy) EB Games at Yorkdale last Sunday to pick up [...]
Over the past few months, I have a few people asking me about what is better – LCD, Plasma or Projection TV of any sort. Here’s my take: I hate rear projection TVs – it’s prone to alignment problems (even today), viewing angles, and richness in colour. Though I have to admit the new 3 [...]
Along with my Windows Vista installation, I have managed to hack the Sierra Wireless AC860 card into my spanking new laptop. I have spent this entire weekend (ok, not quite the weekend, but I need the literary flair) re-installing Vista, and after trial and error got the wireless card running on the machine. There’s a [...]
This is my first post in my brand new blog. Most visitors are probably wondering where everything went? All my photos are offline, along with my original biography and MIDI music. Rest assured, it will be restored when I get a chance to fit the old with the new. You will be hearing a lot [...]