February 2012
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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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April 2011
6 posts
God Father of Social Engineering Kevin Mitnick in...
According to Mr.Mitnicks twitter feed he will be arriving Sunday April 17th, 2011 from Las Vegas. Apparently the reason for his travels to the windy city is for a reality show ?! Some high level googling reveals nothing more on what he will be doing here or what the show will be about.
This is exciting for me as I do consider him a celebrity of sorts. The media and literature he...
Apps 4 Ottawa, you guys rock !
I received a lovely package in the mail last week, for my entry to the Open Data Apps for Ottawa contest. I received a signed thank you letter and a silver usb thumbdrive, I was in no way expecting anything from this contest and the fact that someone gave me something makes me happy!
Thanks Ottawa and Guy Michaud
TekPub Rails 3 Online Course EP2
Wow TekPub certainly phoned this one in. What I mean by that is this is a disappointing tutorial. They took an old video they created for their Sinatra tutorial, stripped out the original beginning and ending then added some excerpts to tie it in with Rails 3.
Things that needed improvement and kind of bothered me:
Narrator is using a completely different build environment then...
Is your Bank loyalty worth it ?
After being denied by the bank for a line of credit I began to question if my customer loyalty was really worth it. This may come off as jaded but I will try to keep it brief. Think about these questions:
How does your bank reward your loyalty ?
What differentiates your bank from another bank ?
How hard would it be for you to switch ?
Are banks any different then...
TekPub Rails 3 Online Course EP1
$27 Canadian dollars later and I have completed the first of 11 video tutorials on how to-do “it” Rails 3 style. First video gives the student the chance to build their development environment in ubuntu, this includes aptanas rad rails, git, gitk, git flow, rvm, rails, ruby and a fist full of gems. One of my biggest concerns with this video was that it was created back...
March 2011
6 posts
“Denied again for a line of credit and a credit card, today is going to be a...”
For those who hated Analysis & Design
I present to you the confusion that is ITIL Foundations v3. I recently finished my 3 day compressed course on the intro to ITIL and I for one am glad its done. :)
Bicycle Times: My new favorite magazine :)
If you have read any generic cycling magazine then you know what you typically see in a cycling magazine:
Latest news on the Tour du “never gonna be in”.
Gadget’s that cost $1200 and have been developed for military use.
Articles that sound like “Carbon Fibre, Do you have enough ?”
Cover model has .5% BMI and leg muscle thicker then a...
Can social media find me a house ?
The Challenge
Utilize social media to help with the purchase of my first house.
The Procedure
Without going into great detail on how twitter works I have created a message with 4 key hash tags to attracted the correct attention.
#mortgage
#ottawa
#broker
#realestate
I may create a few follow up tweets to help this on but for now I will just set my hook and wait :)
The results
to...
“Seconds before falling asleep last night I bit my tongue … #FML”
Winnipegs Most and HeatBagRecords
Found out about these guys from Facebook today and they aint too shabby.
Their Biography:
Originating from the north end of Winnipeg, Manitoba, the group Winnipeg’s Most has arisen like a rose through the concrete. Comprised of three MC’s – Charlie Fettah, Jon-C and Brooklyn, Winnipeg’s Most are a cut above your regular local talent, both flamboyant, and rugged…continued
My Opinion:
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Boiled Perogies can be eaten only during...
In an effort to compute mobilely I have purchased an ACER 5552 laptop from Futureshop. Reasons why I bought the laptop:
My old laptop has now become my desktop via wireless keyboard and 22” LCD
Battery in old laptop no longer holds charge.
I want to program more, I have a “challenge” from work that I may touch on later and I also want to start learning how to develop Android...
January 2011
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