May 2012
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April 2012
5 posts
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“3.15 mi route in Ottawa, ON - 5K route for Ottawa Race weekend 201 - Route...”
– 5km Run Ottawa Race Weekend in Ottawa, ON | Running Map | MapMyRUN
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Work Force Adjustment ... life's little...
Got my letter yesterday and the writing had been on the wall for months. I haven’t been layed off yet … not by a long-shot but I am competing against 5 other people for 3 positions. I may be overly confident on this but I’m not really concerned about losing my job, its just the interruption of my plans that fills me with rage.
Thats right I had plans and now i have...
March 2012
1 post
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Its in you to give ... so do it ...fuck!
Our Son Kellan was diagnosed with Diamond Blackfan Anemia when he was 6 months old. He first got sick when he was only a month and 2 days old. He was only hours away from heart failure, he had hemoglobin count of only 21, it should be over 110. He cant make any red blood cells of his own. He has been recieving regular blood transfusions every 4 weeks to keep him alive.
Apperently there are...
February 2012
9 posts
Song of the night
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Tumblr Staff: A New Policy Against Self-Harm Blogs →
This seems to be a reaction to Jamie Hubleys tumblr blog
Back Story
http://inthewarbetween.blogspot.com/2011/10/final-post-jamie-hubley-leaves-suicide.html
http://ottawa.openfile.ca/ottawa/text/jamie-hubley-story-teen-death-hits-papers
staff:
One of the great things about Tumblr is that people use it for just about every conceivable kind of expression. People being people, though, that...
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Free Online Canadian Television
Canadian Television networks that offer there content online for free, If you go online you can watch these stations:
Discovery
Comedy Network
Space
Home & Garden
National Geographic
Biography
Global
CBC
CTV
Documentary Storm
More links too come …
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How-To get free HD Television in Ottawa
If you live in Ottawa and you don’t want to give Rogers or Bell your hard earned cash then you can do what I have done and it only cost me 20 bucks and I get all the HD channels I need.
Things you need:
Digital HD antenna
+25 feet of coaxial cable(May need longer if you live in a house)
A television with a digital tuner(Almost all new tv’s have these built-in to them)
The...
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[Solved] Adding Adsense ads to your Tumblr posts
It’s very easy to place Google Adsense ads to the body of your Tumblr posts. In our example we’re going to demonstrate how to embed a 468x15 text Google Adsense ad into the middle of our post, this process is the same for all javascript based ads.
Before doing any of the instruction below this line create your desired blog post without any Google Adsense ads in it, take care of the text,...
Canadian Public Service(PS) Right for Me?
I need to get some of my thoughts down on this virtual paper/papyrus/parchment.
For about the last month and a half or so the topic at hand has been rolling around in my head, “Should I quit the PS ?”. Dont get me wrong the PS is an alright employer, I would never give them the great status but they’re a close second. :)
The reasoning I have been using to help make this...
December 2011
3 posts
[Solved] Treadmill RF DSL interference
The Problem:
My old man had a second generation treadmill that when turned on would knock out his DSL and even cause his television to shut off. After some quick googling I discovered that this is a very common issue. According to dslreports.com
RFI is insidious. It can sneak around no matter what you do … totally wipe out your DSL. Noisy RFI … can reach your computer or modem...
Hilarious canadian standup
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Old laptop digital picture frame ... or atleast it...
I hope this younger generation never has to deal with IDE ribbons, floppy drive, dip switches, and CRUSH-ABLE CPU CORES!!!!!
I have been working on this old laptop project for the last 4 or 5 days; Taking an old laptop(Pentium III 600mhz) and converting it into a digital picture frame. I had the fitment in the frame done, all my cables and ribbons run flat, linux distro tuned for speed and...
November 2011
3 posts
October 2011
3 posts
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2011 NHL Gamecenter Live Blackouts
For my fellow Canadians thinking about purchasing a years worth of online NHL streaming you may want to know this tidbit of information.
Unlike normal sports blackouts for local teams, the NHL has broadcaster and local team blackouts. So if CBC, TSN and TSN2 are broadcasting the game on their channel then you wont be able to view the game on-line. Samething goes if my local team(Ottawa Senators)...
September 2011
3 posts
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Nova Scotia Trip
Gonna try a travel blog, checker out http://bainsnovascotiatrip.tumblr.com/
August 2011
4 posts
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Did the Shared Services kick my ass ... I dont...
Impossible … what happened ?
The Canadian government last week introduced the declaration of a new department in the #GOC, the Department of Shared Services(SS). The SS was formed as a cost cutting measure to bring the IT departments in almost all of the #GOC into a new level of fiscal responsability by consolidating Data, Email and Network infrastructures under one...
July 2011
4 posts
Capital Cruising: Time-lapse video of Ottawa →
Aazing time laps video of various locations in ottawa …. its a must watch
“Even Batman has to be Bruce Wayne”
– Nick Charney
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Google Payday!
I finally received my cheque from google … it only took 2 years. While in college I created a website to experiment with SEO and advertising tasks. I wrote a couple popular articled on the internet built some traffic for my site and then laid in some google adsense ad’s into my articled. Some articles worked better then others and some ad’s worked better then...
June 2011
3 posts
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May 2011
9 posts
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Wind Mobility Data Stick + OpenSUSE + Gnome 3 =...
It took me an evening to figure out how to get this data stick working in Linux but now I can cruise the street with my data stick and show off my geek cred!
The Wind Mobility Data Stick is a HUAWEI E1691
For those interested in how to get there Wind Mobility Data Stick working in Gnome 3 run these commands:
alt + f2
nm-connection-editor
Now just make a new connection with similar...
“I can ride my bike with no handlebars
Look at me, look at me hands in the air...”
– Adapted from the song HandleBars by the Flobots
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Envorment Canada XML DataSet Service
To use the service you need 2 things
A date
A weather station ID
For my examples i will be using the following data
Date:
May 7th 2011
Station:
WINNIPEG RICHARDSON AWOS MANITOBA Latitude: 49°55’00.000” N Longitude: 97°14’00.000” W Elevation: 238.70 m Climate ID: 5023226 WMO ID: 71852 TC ID: YWG ID: 47407
To find the Station ID for a weather...
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“Nashville is a team of rejects … Go Vancouver Go”
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Ron Maclean … I added the Vancouver comment :)
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Setup RVM,Ruby and Rails 3 for development in...
Currently there are only a few Linux distro’s that are officially supporting Gnome-shell. So naturally I had to make a transition from ubuntu which has been very good to me to Opensuse which has been a stable distribution. Since my main use for linux was ruby development i needed to recreate my build enviroment. Below are the commands I used to install RVM, Ruby and Rails 3.
From your...
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