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After an incredible 133 posts in BETA. This blog has finally taken it's rightful place on the top level domain of http://www.2fatdads.com. Please come join us there.

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The 2 Fat Dads sites are going to be down this weekend with the slight exception of this blog which is hosted by Blogger (for the moment). This is because we are making a move over to PHP after a very long relationship with ASP which became ASP 3 and eventually ASP Classic. Yes it means losing out on the awesome power of a very solid MS SQL server, but as all the sites ran off of the same

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October 14th is the date. http://store.apple.com/ca/ 

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It would appear that Bell has decided to back off it's initial plan to thwart 3rd party access to the GPS radio on it's BlackBerry units. Who knows if this blog, The Boy Genius Reports or the insane amount of negative posts on Howard Forums had anything to do with it. Maybe the Bell legal team finally realised that what they were about to do was most definitely anti-competitive.  Whatever is was

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Another great realism from XKCD

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This is a story that is making it way around the tech crowd a lot this but has not gotten a lot and lot of media attention elsewhere yet. The Boy Genius Report Blog reports that: Over the next few weeks, Bell may be increasing the GPS lock time (2-10 minutes) and resolution (1-2.5KM) of Third Party applications while maintaining the speed (10-15s) and accuracy (10-25m) of their own GPS Nav

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The Aristocrats! This by far the funniest Leo Laporte video I have ever seen. Thanks to Wil Harris video. Make sure you sign up their Net/Podcasts on iTunes as well!

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As usual XKCD web comics ring true. This one a  little close to the heart as well, although I have been caught a few times with a rather offending ring tone. That's what happens when you're BlackBerry plays MP3's.

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So I've been playing with the new Google Maps Mobile v 2.3.1 for the BlackBerry for a few hours now and although I dreading to see how much data I have consumed, I am very very impressed with the new added feature. The above video explains it very very well, but should you have YouTube blocked off at work, let me just run it down for you: First their is full blown Street View, simply click the

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Google has just launched their Chrome browser into BETA. I've downloaded it and will be throwing some of my own site against it as well as some of my favourite bookmarks. More to come on this... So I have been using Chrome for about an hour now, as expected all of the Google apps run very well and very fast. Reader still hangs a little now and then, but I have a feeling this is mostly due to

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Over the last couple of months, my infatuation has been in trying to reduce my Windows workday of all the needless RSI inducing Microsoft navigation and user interface. There are few things that I hate more than having to yet for my stupid programs folder to load up and then have to search like a madman to find a program I use once every few months. Quicklsilver for the Mac OS X make finding

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I remember driving through the English countryside with my wife's grandfather Fred as we passed a great big horse cart filled with horse manure and next to it there wasa shovel and a stack of potato sacks. A sign next to it read: 1 bag = £1. That's all. I commented on how cheap that was. Fred just said very coldly It might be only be a pound but you're still paying for SHIT! All this to say, the

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I get asked this question all the time from freinds and colleagues who have paid for the Windows Live Messenger service on their Blackberry and then are surprised they can't get their Hotmail without opening the WAP browser. Apart from the fact that Hotmail and MSN Messenger are two separate services that are linked together by the email address. I am often asked if someone can send me a MSN

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Hands Free Safe Drivers - Watch more free videos Quebec and Nova Scotia have been doing for for a few months now. I have no idea how the hell those crazy drivers in Cali are going to take to this law. But I don't think it makes too much off a difference on L.A. freeways, your either not moving at all or everyone is drive 110 mph...

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I'm very slowly getting used to MS Office 2008 for the Mac and to tell you the truth it's not all that bad. It's definitely better than Office 2007 for Windows. I noticed something funny this morning when I saw that the Office Apps spell out PEWX (pukes). This is pretty much what I think Office is doing to my MacBook every time I use it.

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Make sure you stop by to sign the petition and let Robbers Telecom know that they can't keep giving Canadians the shaft!

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Not quite as exciting as the last one but this version is still better than watching the full length version.

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Anyone know how to get my Google Reader Shared Notes to feed directly into my blog as new posts? Yes I am that lazy! Seriously, I used to keep 27 tabs open in my browser sporadically checking various blogs throughout the day but this became insane and FireFox v2 would often just give and die as the amount of memory leaking from it's fragile carcass would spiral out of control. That's when I

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Especially the week before and long weekend and a national holiday. Bastards!(if the above image is yours, my apologies stealing it, post in the comments and I will give you full credit.)

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This weekend Revision3 was hit hard by a DoS that deprived me and countless others from enjoying Veronica Belmont, Patrick Norton, and the Digg Crew's awesome and FREE as in Beer HD content. The culprits turned out to be a pretty shady vigilante group called Media Defender whose past customers have hired these web mercenaries to shut down Bit Torrent servers with illegal DoS attacks. Attacks that

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This is my new favourite video, and the fact that it's from my favourite Geek Chique Rock Band just makes it even better. Read this ValleyWag post for all the viral references.

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This rumour is really starting to take some legs. And to tell you the truth, I'm starting to think it's a pretty good idea.Daniel Eran DilgerApple’s WiFi mobile platform, represented by the iPhone and iPod touch, appears to echo elements the history of the company’s Newton MessagePad from a decade ago. This time, as a decade ago, Apple engineered a highly specialized device and integrated

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Ars Technica has a brilliant article about how absurd the Net Neutrality issue has become in Canada. I am now officially ashamed to be a content producing Web Professional in a country where official government regulators take it up the backside for big companies and make sure the consumer gets the shaft. Launching a video store in such a climate is guaranteed to bring out the (justified or not)

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This is pretty ingenious.

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So I hear we're in for a few more weeks of courting.

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Today "Robbers" have announced that they will be getting the Apple iPhone this year.BoyGenius Reports:It took them long enough! Rogers has finally announced that it negotiated a deal with Apple to bring the coveted iPhone to Canada. Details are limited at this point but Rogers states that the popular Apple handset will be available to its subscribers "by the end of 2008".The way I read it: Rogers

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I have been looking for a small Windows app that freeze the position of my icons on the desktop on Dell notebook even after I disconnect from my big 22 inch screen to go into meeting or to hook up projector. I actively use my desktop as a "cork board" as I try to gather all the items I will be using on any given task which requires a few files. However I also have a set of 20 icons which never

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I am ashamed to own a Dell and to call myself an MS developer.Also Bruce Springsteen needs to sue for defamation.

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The Two Act from Merlin Mann on Vimeo.There certain things that make Merlin Mann videos and podcasts just so damn funny! This video is one of them. Just one more Fat Dad embarrassing our kids.

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Bell and other Canadian ISP seem to have hit some type of nerve in The Great White North that is usually reserved to bad Hockey fights, bashing Celine Dion and corporate America messing with sacred Tim Horton's pastries.So I was watching last night's big game between the Habs and the Sens and scouring Twitter between periods when I saw a Tweet from Amber MacArthur pointing to this article about

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Bell Sympatico, The Great White North's largest internet service provider for consumers and reseller has officially and openly started packet shaping it's network traffic to curb the effect of peer to peer file sharing and Bit Torrent protocols. Which is just ridiculous and down right wrong. ISP's have to stop acting like Cyber police officers and more like utility companies, we have the RCMP and

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This is by far the coolest coffee in the world! In fact, I tell just about everyone I meet about Kopi Luwak coffee and no one ever believes me until I email them the Wiki link. It's amazing that the Royal Family and Oprah would pay $65 a cup to drink something that came out of the backside of a monkey. I wan't to start importing this stuff just so I call resell it as "Monkey Butt Coffee: Sh!t,

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Watch more DIY videos on 5min.comGotta love that GreaseMonkey!

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Disturbing isn't it?

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Or else he will continue to make videos like this one.Thanks to Merlin Mann's Kung Fu Grippe for unearthing this. (all bad puns are intentional)

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And there was much rejoicing. Apple has released an updated version of the Safari web browser with a slew of performance, compatibility, and reliability tweaks. Safari 3.1 also adds support for CSS 3 web fonts, HTML 5 audio and video elements, and other web standards. Safari was the first browser to pass the Acid2 standards test, but like pretty much every other browser available today, it fails

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Picture 301 Originally uploaded by DP_elyanqui Ever wonder what the Riddler does at home? Duh! he Googles new and amusing ways to annoy the hell out The Batman. I especially like the green specs and funky Vans!

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Anyone who has visited any of my blogs knows that I have quite the penchant for Twitter. It's community seems more vibrant with thoughts, things overheard, questions and ideas rather than just being somebody's life aggregator (sorry Jaiku). I have to admit that I have been prone to Twittering Habs hockey games, ski trips and the occasional silly outburst in a meeting (read Luddites explanation of

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London Police Poster Satire Originally uploaded by Mr Atrocity As a beard wearing squirrel, I am a little offended by this obvious stereotype likely to get many goatee/beard wearing Canucks into a lot of trouble by carrying out random acts of kindness like we are prone to do. The funny thing about this is that if you have a beard and ever need to talk on your mobile phone in public, you

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My little cousin, Nick, has put up a new video of Beverly Hills by Weezer on YouTube. I love this song and he has put together and pretty cool Ole Skool Punk Rock video for it. You can see more of his work on his YouTube account page, a word of warning some stuff will leave confused and a little worried but mostly entertained.Well done! Enjoy!

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I saw this idea for the zero emission air car and thought it sounded pretty cool except for the fact that it still requires energy to compress the air that push the pistons to provide drive. I was a little more skeptical when they start talking about how the engine that drives the car could also re-compress more air. My old college physics keep reminding that simply releasing the air will also

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Another great 60 Seconds video from Veronica Belmont @ Mahalo Daily!

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Google TiSP (BETA) is a fully functional, end-to-end system that provides in-home wireless access by connecting your commode-based TiSP wireless router to one of thousands of TiSP Access Nodes via fiber-optic cable strung through your local municipal sewage lines.Thanks to Eric for giving us the heads up on this new Google Labs Beta program. You can out more here and here. I have always found

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I have on more than one occasion used this excuse when the missus calls me up to bed.Hadn't posted any KCD in a while.

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My parents spend their winters driving around the south in a 34 foot RV with an expendable kitchen and living. I _USED_ to think it was real cool until I saw this Unicat! Even Bobby DeNiro would be envious of this rig. I so need one and I have already set up a special savings "goal" in Cha-Ching to make it happen, I only have put aside $380 a week for the next 30 years, sigh...

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I have to admit even I found this a little shocking and very cool.[via Daring Fireball]

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A good friend and fellow techie, Steve McGurn,  has done the unthinkable and declared amnesty on his social networking profiles. I know this will sound insane coming from a WEB2.0 evangelist such as me, but he's right. The idea of all these networks sounds great. Find old school chums on Facebook, keep up to date with all your mobile pals on Twitter, micro blog on Tumblr, see what other people

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Before I owned my first Mac, Quicksilver was the application that made me wish I did. Luckily, slowly but surely, Windows developers began building apps intended to successfully attain that Quicksilver-for-Windows status. They started as simple application launchers, but recently the Quicksilver-for-Windows battle has exploded with tons of new applications.[From LifeHacker]Sometimes Dreams do

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Disruption to internet services in south Asia and the Middle East continues after undersea cable damage.[via the Beeb]Stealing their oil and trying to instill democracy is one thing but depriving the Middle East of YouTube is just plain cruel and most contravene the Geneva Convention.[UPDATED] FEB 6th, OK this isn't funny anymore. There are now _FIVE_ cut cables in middle eastern waters.

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The Flash video of the pug licking you monitor from the inside has been taken down. Some like to call this the Fat Dad effect!I try to keep my blog as clean as possible, but sometimes you need a little extra help from some professionals.Thanks to Eric for sending in the Pros

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[From BEEB] Electrical retailers Currys, Dixons and PC World will now promote digital TV sets with built-in Freeview tuners.Why hasn't this happened in be in Canada yet? This is perfect excuse for going out getting that 50 LCD everyone absolutely _needs_!

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Mahalo's Veronica Belmont had the chance to interview one of the childhood heroes and the person responsible for making comic books, like Spider-Man, so damn cool by not having superhero gods! Yup, I'm talking about you Superman! Marvel comics will always be my favourite and it was pretty awesome to see Stan Lee interviewed by someone who didn't just want to pick his brains about why Peter

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I am a huge fan of email etiquette, I spend so much of life in Outlook or on my BlackBerry that whenever I encounter random acts of email stupidity, I simply want to go postal. In a previous life, I would refer offenders to the company email etiquette policy  I had written up. Now I either send them Merlin Mann's Inbox Zero video (the whole video just to prove a point) or hold it on and take it

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Thanks to Eric for sending this one in. We all love Google Maps, but do you just wish that sometimes, you could see a little more from the Street View. Well this creepy Google Maps video does just that. [from Google Blogoscoped ]

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You _don't_ need TeleNav! What you say? BlackBerry holding out their beloved _crackberry_ loyalists? Well yes, in the case of their GPS services they have completely undersold their own apps in order to sell you something you probably don't even need.I had never really used BlackBerry Maps on the my previous BB 7250 and 7130, simply because Google Maps is such a better application especially

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I love Mahalo for this kind of stuff. This truly is the only way to watch his Steveness with out being affect by the Reality Distortion Field. I must admit that into the 58th second, I could start to feel it.So far my favourite review is from Scott Davis, who was force fed the keynote by Adi and I at the office. Here are my two favourite quotes of his :In his Cultnote, HRS floated another biscuit

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I will be spending my lunch hour, following this year's Macworld KeyNote by Steve Jobs (SteveNote) on Engadget, TUAW and possible Cali Lewi's GeekBreif coverage as well.Hoping for a sub compact notebook, a MacMini/AppleTV Hybrid and an iPod Touch update. Oh and a Beatles Yellow Submarine iPod!UPDATEThe GeekBrief Stream is not working well, So I'm streaming with iJustine. She seems to be sitting

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It's not a conspiracy plot against other forms of non-email communications and for once it's not even Bell Mobility's fault. It's just a little bit of bad planning on behalf of BlackBerry maker's RIM.Here is what happened, I received my BlackBerry Pearl 8130 just before the Christmas break and like any other BlackBerry user would quickly do I quickly loaded up my favourite Google Apps, tried out

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With Guitar Wizard, you plug in your own guitar play real notes. By the time you won the game, your jammin like Carlos Santanna.Thanks to Mahalo's Veronica Belmont and Engadget for the CES 2008 video

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This one is just for the Burg, my buddy Scott Davis who just loves laser. Listen out for Veronica going all Austin Powers on the Meccano Booth Girl. Might have to get me one of those Wifi models.BTW Mahalo Daily's Veronica Belmont has teamed up with Engadget for this year's CES and the coverage has been great to watch so far. Thanks V!

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Excellant article on DownloadSquad about how the stuff you post on Facebook and other social networks does not belong to you and how you'll have a lot of trouble getting any of it back.

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I haven't posted in a couple of days save some Ski Videos over at www.planetfortier.com . Anyways I always get a kick out of XKCD.com

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Do you remember the Cool Nike's that Marty McFly (Michael J Fox) was wearing in the year 2015 in Back to the Future 2? Well I do and along with a hover board, I really want Nike to make these shoes! So go to www.mcfly2015.com and sign the petition to get Nike to mass produce these Awesome Air Runners

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I have had the Ev-DO version of the Pearl for almost two weeks now and I must admit that this is by far the best phone I have ever used. It makes and receives phone calls so well that you almost forget that it does push email (GMail included), takes pictures, surfs the web, plays music and videos and includes a full GPS mapping & directions suite. That's a lot of add-ons you might say. Actually

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Excellent round up of new social networking site that have made some headway this year. I especially like Freecycle and RealBuzz http://news.bbc.co.uk/nolpda/ukfs_news/hi/newsid_7140000/7140599.stm

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This pictures is making it's way around the web a lot today, but does anybody else remember their Grandmothers having their groceries delivered but a snot-nosed zit-faced kid in an Expos' hat and fingerless gloves int he middle of winter on one of these:

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This is what the entire island is like this week.

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First state of Twitosphere in CanadaI found this article on Twitter this morning thanks to @steverubel otherwise known for his great Top 25 Forbes Blog MicroPersuasion.You can follow all of my angry Habs rants and other thoughts on Twitter: @JohnnyCanuck.What is it? [from the FAQ]Twitter is a community of friends and strangers from around the world sending updates about moments in their lives.

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In a previous life as an IT Manager I used to stick PS2 keyboards into the dishwasher (without soap) after taping up the connection. Most of the time, it would be OK. But I love what Veronica Belmont does to this poor old white Apple keyboard on Mahalo Daily.

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The Story of Stuff is a great video and a fantastically well narrated tale of how our consumer needs are unsustainable and are not only putting our way of life at risk but are also irreversibly damaging our fragile little Blue Planet. Annie Leonard presence through out the whole video, chatting away in the bottom right hand side keeps the story flowing and not only draws you in to the story but

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Wow, it's been a pretty slow week literally. Now much happening in the tech news that really stuck for me. However most of the slowness feeling has been from my success rate at troubleshooting tech issues:GMail IMAP Palm Treo: There is still no resolution from either Google or Palm to get IMAP working on the Palm without resetting the device. Now that Bell have dropped the 700P. Further more my

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About Blue Beanie Day 2007Photos of people wearing blue beanies, or blue hats, but mostly blue beanies.Show your support for web standards and accessibility. Please join us on Monday, November 26, 2007 in celebrating Blue Beanie Day.---Monday, November 26, 2007 is the day thousands of Standardistas (people who support web standards) will wear a Blue Beanie to show their support for accessible,

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"Break Out" is a Stupid Game. Yet I still remember playing it for 4 hours straight on my Motorola Timeport 250.

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Just something to get you Yanks ready for tomorrow from Mahalo Daily: Tired of the same old Thanksgiving traditions? Heat things up a bit this year with a 30-quart pot of boiling oil! Deep frying your turkey is a delicious alternative to the usual oven method, but make sure you don’t accidentally deep fry your clothing, hands, or pets in the process. Mahalo guides Sara and Trent lend their expert

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I found this on Lifehacker this morning, I love this site it always some really cool DIY tips on making you life easier, whether it's wire baskets for cleaning up cables or maxing out your WiFi signal.

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Only the British can so polite as to basically tell you to bugger off politely because you're email can't be handled by an automated reply system and get away with it.I sent an email to the Beeb stating that they really need to get started on making online video available to Linux and Apple users. I also wanted them to stop this silly IP filtering they use to determine if you are in the UK or not

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This is great stuff from Wil Harris of Channel Flip, a new online tech network, from Oxford in the UK. I've been toying around with pipes for a little while now but never really found a great use for it until I saw this video from Wil on Unwired.BTW Wil, I love that pink cuppa char.

Johnny Canuckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17156126395698400114noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6342931193327696440.post-33539625223132257662007-11-12T14:49:00.001-05:002007-11-12T14:55:28.598-05:00

Eric Just sent this in:Airbus A319 Crosswind Landing Montreal-Dorval on Video.caAs you know the Airbus 380 did a test landing and take-off from Montreal today.Here is what an Airbus 319 does here in Montreal with a heavy crosswind.Imagine the A380………..

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Here are a couple of Flash Video's from this morning's arrival of the Airbus A380 at Montreal's Pierre Elliot Trudeau Airport.Robert from work also took some video of the landing, his is from his Motorola Q and surprisingly, I like his video more. The flood gates have opened up and now everyone is sending me pictures. The first one is mine.Scott Davis from Burg42 sent these in too:

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Guiness Ad - Tipping Point - ZappInternetThanks to Eric for another great Guinness video.Not many people know this, but my Grey Squirrel avatar is actually drinking a Guinness, although he has been a little photoshopped. It was taken form a UK & Ireland AD campaign "Dreams Club".

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Johnathon Coulton is such a genius.

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The Text box reads as such: *Congratulations on getting your Windows Live ID!! Now that you've got your Windows Live ID, get ready to experience the new set of services that brings your online world together. Yet the page offers absolutely no outgoing links except to the Terms of Service or to log out. This is the Internet as Microsoft see it. "Nothing to do here, so please just move long

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1. You can not send an "Internet" to anybody. Even if you're a US Senator2. If you google Google you will NOT break the Internet3 Helping that guy from Nigeria to transfer his money will not makeyou rich, just stupid.4. Yes your parents and your boss really do use the Internet too. SoThey have probably done some pretty stupid stuff that you couldGoogle or find in their temp folders.5. Facebook

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Simply Said: "I love this game." I have only had it three days but I'm already up against Tom Morello in my my first guitar battle. OK! So he's totally kinking my @$$ on easy, throwing whammy and amp overloads at me left right and as I try to keep up with the 3 Chord solo he wrote just for the game.The game is as easy or as hard as you like by switching play modes adding chords and even taking

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From Engadget:Remember that urinal-based racing game that was making the rounds this summer? You know, the one you drive with your pee, and which warns you against drunk driving if you're not controlling your car too well?... ...read on...Well, uh...No I don't remember that game. But I seriously want it installed in my downstairs loo!

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This is the kind of stuff that makes our in-house designers cry! Thanks to John Gruber at Daring Fireball for the excellent find.

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There is a nasty rumour running around that GMail quietly going 2.0 the same way slow roll out it made with IMAP. I got my IMAP access on the same day as they launched it but I still haven't had any updates on GMail 2.0. But you can bet that I will blog it the minute I get it.

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This is another great review of Mac OS X Leopard produced by Daniel Eran Dilger taken for the point of view debunking popular misconceptions of Mac's and OS X. Daniel's articles are always a great read and he links to past articles and other research beautifully and the fact that up until recently hi entire site was written with iWeb speaks mountains about someone who obviously lives and

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I've never seen this Lego set at Toy'R'Us

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I need one for the drive-thru Tim Horton's before my Monday morning meetings.

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I need to find more time to potter about in the garage.

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I've always liked the stuff Veronica Belmont did on TWIT.tv and I was just starting to think she was the best part of Buzz Out Loud when she decided to go to Mahalo. So I'm really glad that the launch of Mahalo Daily it is just around the corner. Nov 5 is supposed to the big day. So break a leg Veronica, we'll be watching.

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I love the Canadian sense of humour...

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Upgraded to Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard on Friday and been using it all weekend... WOW!. I know that does seem like a very long time for a test drive but for a Geek who had a very busy weekend sorting out friends WiFi networks, migrating them to newer machines and troubleshooting various Windows nasties this is was a true test of robustness. First the upgrade went very smoothly. I have never seen such

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As proud owners of many Geek Tees, we are proud to announce our partnership with ThinkGeek for Tees and all of you USB Nerf Missile Firing needs. So next time your in the market for a red Swingline stapler, my personal favourite: the RTFM t-shirt or even some laser guided missile launchers to protect your "Cube", make sure you stop by here first and click-thru via one the ThinkGeek banners and

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For the first time in my Googling experience, I am very disappointed. The specific lack of Versamail IMAP support for the Treo is just one more frustrating blow to Treo users that are increasingly being left out of Google's projects. The Gmail Java client was not very strong and rather quite buggy with screen flickering and lack of key mapping support. However the BlackBerry version of GMail was

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Some days the people in my office actually sound just like this. I, for one, remember nipping into IT to ooggle and fondle the iPhone when it first came out. I still love my Treo 700P but have started have these feelings for the BlackBerry 8830 World Edition (Panther). It's getting pretty bad I can't seem to hold on to a device for more than 6 months."It's funny because it's so true" -

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What can I say... I don't think I will be switching back to a PC anytime soon.

Johnny Canuckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17156126395698400114noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6342931193327696440.post-34800408235450145932007-10-17T17:30:00.001-04:002007-10-17T16:30:56.179-04:00

According to Engagdet : "a team of diligent engineers at the California-based Jet Propulsion Laboratory, standards for space communications could be established in just three short years, meaning that an "interplanetary internet" could be just around the bend."Great, now we're paying astronauts and and Mars landing rovers to watch YouTube videos while they galaxy hop! I can see it now: First

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