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2007-09-04T20:18:00.000-03:00

Adorable! Six year old Connie from Britain's Got Talent

2007-09-04T19:29:00.000-03:00

I've been subscribed to this guys for a little bit now on YouTube. He's videos are usually pretty funny. Enjoy :)

2007-08-28T12:07:00.000-03:00

Maps - Miss West Carolina speaks out - Also funny

2007-08-28T12:06:00.000-03:00

Miss Teen USA South Carolina 2007 - Too Funny!!!!

2007-08-25T00:40:00.000-03:00

Some weird video of some kids playing with the intercoms at WalMart. Kinda Funny.

2007-08-25T00:11:00.000-03:00

Hey everyone,

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2005-03-30T21:57:00.000-04:00

So I was driving a friend home from work today and as we were driving out of the parking lot I started to hear this really loud noise. At first I thought it was coming from another car but when I noticed I was the only car in ear shot, I realized that it was coming from my car. When I got my friend home, I immediately jumped out of my car and took a peak at my muffler and noticed that the back of it had come lose. Not enough to make it drag on the ground, but enough to keep it from doing it's job (keeping the car quiet). I then made my way to Canadian tire (with my car embarresingly make a ton of noise the whole way) and $170.00 later I have a new muffler and an oil change (I needed on anyway). What a great day!

2005-03-28T22:58:00.000-04:00

People in Canada will be happy to hear that we are now able to sign up for the free "insert product name here" (ie: Ipods) sites as well. I heard about www.dvrs4free.com through GoogleCommunity Forums and thought I'd give it a quick glance.

Hurray for us Canadians, we can sign up too. It only gives you the option for $250.00 (transferred to you through paypal) if you live in Canada where as the Americans can get a free Tivo or PSP, but it's nice to be able to jump on the free stuff band wagon. Anyone interested should deffently check out the site and sign up.

Much like freeipods.com you'll need to sign up for a trail offer from one of dvrs4free.com referral sites, but their are some 30 day trails that you can sign up for and then cancel within the trial period if you don't see anything worth purchasing.

2005-03-23T19:29:00.000-04:00

Today started off so good, I was in a good mood. After I had my morning coffee I made my way to work. Once I got to work, it seemed like the day went down hill from there. To start off, our parking lot was full (if only I had of left 10 minutes ealier) so I ended up parking next to the wall. Now, for anyone who has ever parked in the Cendant Saint John underground parking lot, you'll understand when I say their is absolutely no space at all down there. The spaces are squeezed together tight enough just to fit a car perfectly (at least when their as big as mine). If someone is having an off parking day and they end up parking on a slight slant, it is a really annoying task to park next to them if their is no were else to park. My point, and I do have one, depending on when the other cars left the lot today, the person who would have to back up towards the wall were I was parked would have had a hard time not hitting me.

Next, I get to my desk and start my day. It actually isn't too bad when I just get there, I'm getting things done and the days seemed to be going well. Then I called a property (I work in tech support, an outbound division for Cendant Hotels) and I spent so much time dialed into their system my eyes were going buggy. To top it off with all the time I spent on the site, I didn't even solve the problem so I had to escalate it to another tech. There was a couple of other things that happened during the day too, but I'd rather not post them on my blog. Not that it's anything that I think could get me in trouble for mentioning, but you never know who is reading your blog and how they may take what you say. People have been fired for what they have said on their blogs in the past, so when it comes to work it's best to be as discrete as possible. Don't get me wrong here, I LOVE my job, and wouldn't' trade it for anything, I just hate it when I spend so much time on something with no results.

It is on days like this, however that do remind me how crappy it can be to be single. It would be super nice to come home to someone and just relax on the couch for a while with them after a day like today. Instead I went and grabbed a coffee and people watch for a bit before I came home. I knew if I went home right away to an empty apartment I would probably just scream.

It's actually been a stressful week on the work front and I deffently can not wait until the weekend gets here to break things up.

2005-03-22T21:20:00.000-04:00

You Will Die at Age 67

67

You're pretty average when it comes to how you live...

And how you'll die as well.

What Age Will You Die?

2005-03-19T22:47:00.000-04:00

I have been a Star Trek fan for a long time now. I can remember being a little kid watching Star Trek: The Next Generation in the 80's and 90's with my father, it was a weekly tradition in the house. No matter what was going on, we had to stop everything and watch the show. Then came DS9 and my favorite series of all time Star Trek: Voyager. After the finale of Voyager a few years ago came the current series Enterprise, but I never really got into that one. I think it's mostly because I really enjoy watching the progression of technology in the time line that the majority of the series took place in. The Enterprise seires time line predates the Kirk time line, and I just couldn't see my self getting into it. That, and I missed the series premier and I HATE jumping into any show without watching it from the begging.

Enterprise aside, I grew up on Star Trek and spent a lot of time as a kid imagining what it would be like to live in that type of era. In Gene Roddenberry's vision, Earth is paradise. War, hunger, racism, prejudice, greed, all things that people today live with do not exist on his earth. All of our worlds current 'evils' are replaced by one main goal, exploration and the discover of new life. Who wouldn't want to live in a world like that?

A few days ago I happened to stumble across an Internet fan series site Star Trek: Hidden Frontier. Honestly, at first I wasn't sure what to expect as I waited for the first episode of Season 1 to download. I wondered if a) the story line was any good, b) what the heck would they use for sets and c) what will the acting be like?

Fast forward to a few hours ago today when I finished watching the first episode of Season 6 and the entire series up to date. To answer all of the three questions above I thought everything was great. The story line for the series as a whole is fairly interesting. I am not going to go to much into it as I really want everyone reading this to go and download a couple of episodes to see what I mean. It's set at a space station orbiting Ba'ku, a healing planet that some people might remember from Star Trek Insurrection. Shortly into the first episodes the viewers are introduced to the shows main antagonist, a race of aliens call 'The Gray'.

The show (for the most part) is primarily shot in front of a green screen using images from other Star Trek series and movies. I can imagine that it must be VERY difficult for the actors to shoot their episodes without being able to actually see their set in front of them, but they really do an amazing job regardless. Many times while I was watching the show I'd lose my self in the story line and forget that they are not actually on the real set.

Finally, I have to say that the Computer Graphics in the show KICK ASS. If you watch the show just for that, you'll be pleased. The shots when they show the space station obriting over Ba'Ku are amazing. Check the site out and you can see what I mean.

Like I said, I've been a FAN of Star Trek for as long as I can remember. It's really interesting to see what types of story lines other FANS can come up with and I can't wait to see how the rest of this series turns out. Please, go and check out Star Trek: Hidden Frontier.

2005-03-09T01:35:00.000-04:00

Gay Marriage. It's again been in the news a lot here in Canada and I thought I put my two cents in. Yes, I have brought this up before, but I find the arguments interesting.

First I want to say, what is the big deal, really? I probably have a one sided view on this here what with being gay myself, but honestly I just don't see the issue here?

Of course, their is your standard religious arguments, but I'm not religious and I'd rather not get into them. We live a society that allows us to worship which ever religion we'd like so I'll respect other peoples religious beliefs and not even bring them into this. That is how the government should work anyway, right?

Their are several arguments that I could touch on, but I'll bring up a few that I hear a lot and give my take on them.

"Marriage is between a man and a woman, that is the way it has been and always should be".

Why because you say so? If two people love each other what is it going to hurt to let them get married? Their are couple of arguments to this that I'll usually hear but my favorite is the one that people will say about how if Gays are allowed to be married it will be the beginning of the end of humanity as we know it. Big shocker here, gays can't reproduce without some type of third party intervening.

This one always confuses me as the gay population is probably anywhere around 10 to 15 percent of the total population. Even if the gay community COULD convert straight people to our side of the fence (which we can't, although I'm sure their are some of us that wish that we could) I think it's highly doubtful and unlikely that we would suddenly take over the world and covert the entire population. Also, we do live in a modern age. Women can get pregnant without even having to be in the same room as a male. Again, can anyone honestly believe that the Gay population of the world would ever reach 100 percent? This is honestly such a weak argument it makes me cringe (and laugh) when ever I hear it or read it in a news paper.

Also, their are people who say that marriage was created just for reproduction. I'm sorry, this doesn't hold true today for the community that is allowed to be married. Their are lots of couples who, while are married, choose not to have children. If some straight couples can chose to get married and not have kids, it really throws this "for breeding only" idea out the window.

"If Gay marriage is allowed it will open a flood gate for anyone who wants to get married (ie: instual marriages)"

Who knows, maybe at some point an instual couple will try and take this to court and say that by not allowing them to get married it is infringing on their rights. Keep in mind though that my sexual orientation is protected in the charter of human rights (at least here in Canada it is), incest on the other hand is not and is against the law. They would have to have a few laws changed before they could even consider fighting this. I would highly doubt we would ever reach a point were societies thinking would shift in such a dramatic way that would ever bring about the legalization of incest. Marriage is a union between two consenting, non blood related adults. All we are saying here is if straight people can do it, why can't we?

"Give Gays the same rights and privilege as a marriage but call it a 'Civil Union'"

Equal rights people. By calling it something else, your singling us out. We just want the same privileges that everyone else has had for centuries. This does not mean same but different.

That's some of my favorite ones, I may post more as the come to me. It's just my take on the whole situation. With any luck after the next few months when the law is pushed to be country wide (in Canada) this won't even be an issue any more.

2005-03-01T20:14:00.000-04:00

Still haven't got a Gmail account yet? Check out Isnoop and you should have one soon! Have fun.

2005-02-28T19:57:00.000-04:00

2005-02-15T20:06:00.000-04:00

I finally got one. Granted it's no 20 gig Ipod, but my little 1 gig Ipod shuffle is my new baby. I can't belive how tiny it is, it's great. It charges in the USB port in my computer and with Itunes I don't even have to pick all the songs I want to put on it. Their is a great option that will randomly pick songs from my music library and add them to my Ipod Shuffle for me. Defiantly my favorite new thing (well, maybe next to my tv).

2005-02-14T23:31:00.000-04:00

After years of waiting and wanting to get flowers from someone on Valentines days today my wish finally came true (I'm such a geek!). Three of the nicest girls I have ever had the privilege of working with got together and had flowers delivered to me today at work. I was very surprised, excited and slightly embarrassed (but the good kind) when I picked them up at the front desk.

Next years goal, to get them from a guy!

2005-01-23T02:32:00.000-04:00

After long await here it is, a picture of my new tv. All set up and on its new stand. Sorry it took so long to post, but I was busy watching it.

2005-01-17T20:33:00.000-04:00

I finally took my Christmas money and went to Walmart and got a new computer desk and a couple end tables. I love the computer desk, it's perfect for my dual monitor set up. No more straining my eyes to look at the right side monitor at the end of the desk for me. Now it's right next to me! I'm such a geek and I love it!

2005-01-17T20:31:00.000-04:00

...end table 1...

2005-01-17T20:30:00.000-04:00

..end table 2

2005-01-09T22:56:00.000-04:00

My new toy, right before I got it set up

2005-01-02T00:40:00.000-04:00

I must make an apology to the author of marklevinfan for stating that he was the person who made the comment about my "scary mug" in my December 05th post. Which ever blogexplosion user made that comment must have put the url to the marklevinfan site on their account when they signed up as that was the site that was linked to thier nickname. I of course natural assumed that the commenter and the author were one in the same when I made the post, but I was wrong. Again, my apologize to the site owner of marklevinfan.

2005-01-01T13:44:00.000-04:00

What an insane couple of weeks. Between working on some fun, new, but time consuming projects at work and the getting through the holidays, I think I need some more time off! Christmas day was fun, but coming from a divorced family meant two turkey dinners about two hours apart. I thought I was gonna be sick, but it was still yummy. My sister got me a fun little trash talkers doll called "Rectum Romeo" that has about 6 prerecord, gay themed sayings. My favorite is "OMG, it's humongous".

Last night I decided to stay in, have a few drinks and watch a few episodes of Jem that I was able to get from a DVD my friend had with her while she was visiting for Christmas. Nothing says ringing in the new year like watching an 80's pop music cartoon show and drinking cranberry juice and vodka!

2004-12-23T18:23:00.000-04:00

Well, I'm sure as everyone has noticed my posts have been less than frequent, but I promise once the holidays are over I'll get back to posting some interesting things!

Hope everyone has a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

2004-12-22T00:31:00.000-04:00

I love this plant, it started out as a little leafy thing about half the size of my arm and look at it now!

2004-12-21T23:35:00.000-04:00

Question: Why is it some people think that they can control the people they are with? How can you possibly think that it will work if all you do is spend your time making lists of cans and don'ts?

2004-12-19T00:52:00.000-04:00

Well, for the first year in a long time I am actually ready for Christmas ahead of schedule. Everyone has a gift and their all wrapped. Now all I have to do is wait for the day!

2004-12-10T12:06:00.000-04:00

Twenty three years ago today, two months ahead of schedule I entered this world. That's right, it's my birthday today. What am I going to do today?

2004-12-05T13:37:00.000-04:00

Last night while I was up late chatting with a friend I received and email from Blog Explosion informing me that someone had posted a comment about my blog through Blog Explosion commenting service. Now because I rarely ever get comments from Blog Explosions commenting system I immediately logged in to check my comments. When I read it I was rather shocked to see someone took the time to post this happy little comment.

Sean, I respectfully suggest that you refrain from posting your picture in the future! Your mug is a little scary! :)

Apparetnly, one of the writers of marklevingfan thinks my face is not suitable for the internet. Granted, I won't be walking down any runways anytime soon and I know that I wasn't blessed with the gift of a drop dead gorgeous face, but come on to actually take the time to leave a comment just to send a personal attack on me is sad! Dose this person really have such little to do with their life that they actually took time out of it to insult me?

I know I'm setting my self up for any type of insults having a web site that anyone can access, but I always expected someone would comment on my crappy writing styles, bad choices of topics, or horrible site layout rather then me personally. Oh well, all types of people on this world and we got to take the good with the not so good.

I would imagine most people would just delete the comment after reading it, not me though. I can't live in a world looking through rose colored glasses thinking everyone will show as much human decency as I try to so I'm going to keep it up so all the Blog Explosion users can enjoy it's nastiness.

2004-12-05T01:09:00.000-04:00

Quote of the day "Life is like a box of chocolates, some eat them quickly while overs savour them slowly."

Question one: Does that sound too much like a forest gump knock off
Question two: It just popped into my head, so how does it sound?

2004-12-04T22:48:00.000-04:00

Think you need a work out? Just grap these two kids and play with them for a couple of hours. If you can make it through the first hour without passing out, the second hour is a breaze. PS: Cuties aren't they!

2004-12-04T13:41:00.000-04:00

Christmas traditions are different for everyone. Coming from a divorced family usually means two of everything. Two trees, two get togethers, two sets of parents to buy for. For the past 3 years I have spent Christmas Eve and the following morning at my fathers place. We have lobster for Christmas eve dinner and then do the presents thing in the morning and usually have a full house every year. Then we head into the city to my mothers after we finish (brother, sister and my self) and do the Christams thing with her for the rest of the day. Lots of family crammed into two days. I'm curious to hear what everyone else does for Christmas so post a comment and let me know what your traditions are.

2004-12-02T22:39:00.000-04:00

I got out the fake snow tonight and put it all over the tree. I think it makes it look nice. I even put some on my windows too. I'd rather look out the window and see the fake stuff then the real white evilness. I am really one of those people who can live without having a white Christmas!

2004-12-01T18:50:00.000-04:00

I've said it before and I'll say it again. I do NOT chat on the internet for hook ups (aka sex) and, I am not interested in your stats. I chat on the internet to chat and to get to know people, it's as simple as that. If you're looking for something other than chat, just move on to the next name on the list!

2004-11-30T20:48:00.000-04:00

Four down and five more to go. With Christmas fast approaching I seem to be getting a little bit overwhelmed with how many people I have on my list, how many shopping days I have left, and how many pay checks I'll get until the big day. Do you think anyone would mind if we have Christmas after the Box Day sales?

2004-11-27T23:08:00.000-04:00

Well now what am I suppose to do?

2004-11-24T20:34:00.000-04:00

The waves of the ocean, birds chirping on a nice spring day, sounds of children playing, these are all nice sounds. Sounds that can be some what soothing, well as long as the children playing are not screaming at each other. What's not a nice sound? Hearing your teeth crack as your dentist is trying to get your last wisdom tooth out, that is not a nice sound. If anyone is wondering, today I got my last wisdom tooth out, and I'm thrilled that their are no more of those suckers left in there to be taken out. Hopefully I WILL NEVER have to hear my teeth make that horrid "crack" sound again!

2004-11-24T00:55:00.000-04:00

I just heard this line on Seinfeld that made me giggle...

"I had a dream last night that a hamburger was eating ME!"

2004-11-22T18:41:00.000-04:00

As promised, here I am with my "gotee" after a week and a few days.

2004-11-21T23:35:00.000-04:00

I'm worth $1,690,059.45! How much are you worth?

2004-11-21T21:01:00.000-04:00

Recently a friend and coworker of mine sent me a frantic email telling me about a dream she had that I was in. It was kinda funny so after checking with her I'm gonna post it here so everyone can take a look at it. Note to readers: The following dream post may not represent my actual lifestyle and clothing style, enjoy :)

I don't dream often (or 'remember my dreams' I guess it is, because they say you dream every night), but when I do, I often dream of the same things.
I often dream of being at a mall in Fredericton... Only it's not Fredericton, and it's the some half-built mall, with all kinds of funky shops. For some reason, I was with my mother last night, trying to find a sports shop that I had just been in and spotted something I wanted... but I went to find Mom, and couldn't find my way back, and somehow ended up in the 'seedier part of the mall'.

We wandered around and I walked into something dark and tiny called 'Electric' something... like Electron Boutique', the name was rather innocent. But when I walked in, there was some sort of BDSM scene going on... and here you were in the middle of it, dressed up like a nurse. Not a male one. And your skirt was way too short, and I walked up to you and slapped you on the fanny and asked what you were doing in here.

No, I'm not making this up.

We talked for a minute but you seemed kind of upset, and just when I'm going to ask you why, my mother wandered in, gasped, and staggered out, and I followed her... but one of the shops employees stopped us, and started talking to her. I thought she was just seeing if Mom was okay, but she started telling her that while she could convince you to have oral sex with her, she couldn't get you to stick it in her. And I'm doing everything I can to not say 'Um, he's gay?' because I'm thinking Mom just can't handle another thing, and I just want to get her out of there.
So I go back later with Nathan (her son), but the shop had closed. The woman who owned it said 'Oh, Sean's in there taking a shower, just go on in', but when I go in I somehow get locked in with Nate. So I'm trying to keep him from looking around at the stuff in the store, and trying to get us out... and a security guard comes along and decides I broke in, and arrests me.

Now... tell me wtf THAT was about?

2004-11-20T22:40:00.000-04:00

I went Christmas crazy today and bought enough bulbs and lights to last me the next ten years. I even put my tree up, now isn't it preaty!

2004-11-20T13:59:00.000-04:00

For anyone who is a computer junkie like my self must love informative, well programed television networks dedicated to what we love, technology! That's why when TechTv came to Canada a few years ago I was super stoked (I can't believe I just used that word). With such shows as The Screen Savers and Call for help, I fell in love with the station immediately. All the shows kept me well infomed on upcoming product releases and I felt as if I was learning at the same time I was watching. When I got my first and still current apartment as soon as I could afford it I got my self a digital receiver and watched TechTV constantly. Oh, how times have changed!

Over the past few months the station has been merged with some god awful gaming network G4, TechTV is now know as G4TechTV. When the changes to my favorite station began, I was very open minded. I wanted to give the station as much room for growth as possible and I didn't want to be someone who instantly was against it. Well, now it's months later and I am more than against it, I am pissed off. Not only has G4 (and I am leaving the TechTV part out of the name) dropped such excellent shows as Call for help, they have "revamped" The Screen Savers to a point were I don't recognize it any more.

Near the beginning and end of the summer they dropped some excellent and intelligent hosts such as Leo Laport (host of The Screen Savers and Call for Help) and Patrick Norton (host of The Screen Savers) and added Alex Albrecht to the cast. I have nothing against Alex, I think that he was a great addition to the cast, I'm just upset they got rid of some wonderful people. Thankful at this point they had kept other hosts (Dan, Yoshi, and others) so I knew that the show could still be somewhat alright but defiantly not what am use to. At this point becuase the show was stil being host by the greatss Kevin Rose and Sarah Lane I still watched the show faithfully. I even thought things would be okay when I found out that Call For Help would be coming to the G4TechTV Canadain side of things. Thank god for being a Canadian!

Alias, they've done it again. I just read a post on Sarah Lanes web site informing viewers of The Screen Savers that the show has yet again been put on re-runs for the time being so they can "...regroup, reaching, and relaunch..." Not just that, but they have let go of Alex, Dan, Yoshi, Martin (Host of UnScrewed), Laura and some producers. Okay, WTF? I put up with the merger, I accepted the changes to the line up, and I even tolerated the changes that occurred this summer to The Screen Savers, but they let go of Alex. ALEX JUST STARTED and he was kind of entertaining.! Others were icons to the show that I thought could never be let go. Yoshi always had wonderfully thought out and creative mods that I don't think I will see anywhere else on TV, EVER!. Thankful I haven't heard of the show getting rid of Sarah or Kevin, but who knows.

The show and station as a whole (TechTV, not the G4 CRAP) brought out my inner geek and I was proud to say that I was a subscriber, now I'm ashamed and pissed. G4 has taken this network, and revamped it to an gaming version of MTV that is horrible. I'm sorry to all the G4 fans out there but the station was better off left as it was and, now I'm afraid, pending the re-re-release of The Screen Savers I will more than likely drop my subscription to G4Tech TV. I hate to say that because I really do love the Canadian Version of Call For Help.

- RIP TECH TV, you will be sorely missed!

2004-11-20T11:46:00.000-04:00

Excellent! Most of the snow has melted now. Maybe we can have a green Christmas after all!

2004-11-17T20:54:00.000-04:00

At work I've managed to get on a Monday to Friday 9-5:30 shift that I'm really excited about. Their is just one problem, I've gotten into a bad habit over the last two days of coming home, making dinner and then taking a nap until 8:30. I had this problem in college and I know what is going to happen if I don't nip this in the bud. I'll end up staying up until 2 or 3 in the morning, being exhausted all day at work and then coming home, napping again and repeating the entire process every night. I'll just have to put on my green tea as soon as I get home and find something to do to keep me busy. Hopefully it will give me enough of a caffeine boost to keep me awake until I go to bed, but not enough to keep me up all night.

2004-11-14T22:59:00.000-04:00

So I'm trying something new. I'm trying to grow a goatee. I've been curious for a while now to see what one would look like stuck to my face, and so on Friday I stopped shaving on my chin and above my lip. I'll post the progress as it grows more and please feel free to post your comments on it. I probably in the end will decide to not keep it but I figure I'll give it a try. So, here I go and here is my first picture.

2004-11-13T21:01:00.000-04:00

Tired of your old friends with the same old stories? Why not make a new snow friend :)

2004-11-13T13:57:00.000-04:00

Good morning. I woke up this morning to see this white stuff all over place. Winter has arrived, my only question is... Where is the snow plow?!?

2004-11-11T20:20:00.000-04:00

I went out last night and saw The Grudge. It was good, and it actually made me jump a couple of times, defiantly worth a see. The only problem with movies that make you jump is when you have too pee. Through the first half of the movie I had to pee so bad but I didn't want to get up because I was into the movie. I knew I shouldn't have had that green tea before I got into the theater but I love green tea so much I couldn't help it. Pee break aside the movie was great!

2004-11-09T21:20:00.000-04:00

As I'm sure everyone is aware, you can now get FireFox Version 1.0. It was released today so click here to get it! Enjoy.

2004-11-06T20:24:00.000-04:00

I am so excited, I just got this in Email in my hotmail account. Finally, Christian religion has accepted Gay marriage as an inevitable progression of society!

Hey!
Long time no talk! I just had to email you and let you know
about how I found my future Christian husband. Yeah, you heard me
right, I'm engaged finally! I couldn't believe it myself either.
What happened was that Esther told me to go to this Christian
website, and lo and behold, they matched me with Michael. It turned
out to be the greatest thing to happen to me. I will pray that
the same happens to you too!

http://www.skippingtreetops.com/

Hope to talk to you soon,
-Grace

2004-11-06T19:50:00.000-04:00

I know, it's awful of me and goes against everything I believe in but lately I've needed a little self confidence boost so I put a profile up on Hot or Not. Come on aid in the boost of my confidence and give me a vote.

2004-11-06T16:41:00.000-04:00

The day always seems a little more different when you are suppose to be somewhere else but your actually at home instead. I ended up calling in sick to work today as I was tossing and turning all night and didn't end up falling asleep until 6:30am. When my alarm went off at 7:20am I just couldn't see my self going to work my twelve hour shift with less than two hours sleep, so I called in sick and slept until 11:00am. Now as I'm sitting here typing this entry I'm thinking about what I could be doing and what I actually am doing right now instead, and it kind of makes my day off a little more enjoyable. After all, I could be working right now.

When I have my regularly scheduled days off their pretty much all the same nothingness. Get up, run errands, hang out with friends, watch TV, surf the net... Nothing too exciting, defiantly nothing I would waste my time blogging about. When I have an unexpected sick day they are so much more enjoyable than a regular day off, mostly because they are unexpected. Generally when I know something's coming I have way too much time to think about it, and make it out to be something it's not. When it actually comes I end up disappointed because of my over high expectations.
Just in case anyone is wondering, no I'm not the lazy guy who takes way too many sick days in the run of a year because I hate my job. I actually enjoy my job and so rarely take a sick day my coworkers are usually fairly shocked when I do. I am one of those odd people who think their should be something wrong with you or at least some type of an emergency if you are taking a 'sick day'. That is why they are called 'sick days' and not 'take off when ever you feel like it days'.

Vacation time is another time gap that I end up over analyzing before it occurs and make it less enjoyable as a result. I think it's because I have to schedule and plan it. Where I work I have about two weeks of vacation time allotted to me. I don't have to take it all at once so I usually end up taking a week together and leaving a week of floating time that I can take when ever I want. The floating days I use to plan time off on a whim; usually a week or so before I take the time off. I generally ruin these days off by thinking about "all the things I could get done" with the extra time I have. What usually ends up happening of course is that I get little to none of the things on my metal "to do" list completed and end up feeling useless because of it.

One would think that my issue is laziness, and maybe your right. I think my problem is I try to plan everything in my life and I end up get stressed at my self when I don't stick to my metal plans. Who actually sticks to doing what they say they were going to do all the time anyway? I think I could get many things done in my life, and enjoy my life better if I didn't try to plan everything I do before I do it, but is that even possible?

People make their mental "to do" lists every day, all the time, so maybe planning isn't my problem. As much as I would love to be able to live a life where I didn't have to plan everything I do and I could just do everything on a whim I'll admit I can't. If I left everything up to chance and planned nothing in months I'd be on the streets after missing my rent, losing my job because I couldn't keep to my schedule, and car-less after missing one of my monthly car insurance payments.

I guess I should just stop thinking about all this, learn to relax more, have another cup of green tea and enjoy my sick day.

2004-11-05T22:12:00.000-04:00

This is insane, hours and hours I spend clicking the different numbers that I'm told to. Dose anyone else forget what they use to do on the internet before Blog Explosion? Really, I'll start surfing at one point in the evening and before I know it, it's late into the night / early morning. I think I need help. At least I can say that I'm getting lots of reading done (I have to rationalize it somehow).

I have noticed something in my hours upon hours of mindless clicking. Site owners are concerned about the lack of repeat readers generated from Blog Explosion users. It makes sense, you only need to be at a site for about 30 seconds before you can click on to the next site and I'm sure most users are not reading every blog they go to. At least not until the Blog Explosions hypnosis kicks in. Eventually if you are as addicted to surfing the sites like I am, you can't help but read every blog you hit. You eventually develop a rhythm to it, click, read, click, read, check email, click, read, and so on. When I keep my mindlessness up for a couple of days, bamm, a couple hundred sites have me as a repeat reader. Now aren't they lucky.

2004-11-05T17:12:00.000-04:00

Well we thankfully missed it this time. The news was calling for it, but thankfully the evilness of snow didn't come today as it ealier announced. We dodge a bullet this time and even have some what of a nice looking evening, but how much longer can we hold out before the dreaded snow makes an appearance?

2004-11-04T20:49:00.000-04:00

I almost forgot, I can't believe it. I was sitting at my chair, thinking about how their was nothing on tonight, but then I remembered, the show of shows The OC premieres tonight! What was I thinking, how could I almost forget? I know what your thinking I'm sick, TV is my life and that's ever so sad.

It's a good thing I spend hours on the internet, all that reading must compensate for something.

2004-11-03T17:39:00.000-04:00

Looks like it's another 4 years for Mr. Bush, and I guess I should congratulate him, so congratulations, now please don't screw it up. A girl I work with happened to notice I was showing interest in the US election and made a comment about how much of a waste of time it was. I live in Canada, and this was a US election, so why should I care? I'm wondering how you can't even be just a little bit interested in the outcome.

While, thankfully, because I live in another county, if the recently reelected president of the US screws something up in his home land, I can just sit back and make my usual sarcastic comments. If he says something dumb or introduces a back wards law I can say, "phew, glad I don't live there!" But he's also in control of one of the world largest powers which means he can effect a lot of what happens in the world. If the president decides he wants to start a war and my country gets involved in it in one way or another I can't be so complacent about it. I am probably being a little extreme, but you get what I'm trying to say.

Now, for all you Bush supporters out there don't start posting comments pointing out what a great president Bush is because I'm not trying to say we he is or isn't a good leader. I am trying to point out why people shouldn't show a little interest in world affairs, just because we don't live there does mean it can't affect us.

2004-10-31T08:01:00.000-04:00

I can't believe I did it. I got my days mixed up and for some reason and thought time shifted tonight not last night. I was racing around my apartment this morning trying to get my self ready for work when I noticed the time on my computer was "an hour behind". At least I thought it was an hour behind. Then I made a terrifying discovery... I could have slept in an extra hour this morning! Oh well, at least I have more time for coffee.

On a lighter note, Happy Halloween everybody, remember to drive carefully.

2004-10-30T20:07:00.000-03:00

How great is this, 4 Simpson Halloween episodes on tonight and then in a week from tomorrow the Simpsons season premiere! I'm such a tv junkie, I think I need help. I wonder if their is a patch for tv?

2004-10-29T15:04:00.000-03:00

My friend and I recently got into a heated conversation about love, life and being gay and single in our twenties. He's very frustrated with not being able to find someone that is interested in the same things he is and he's even more upset with the fact that he's is still single. Keep in mind that we are both only 22! He told me that he believes that finding someone to be with is more like a life purpose than an addition to life. He's in a mind set right now were he believes that the only thing that can make him happy will be to be with someone. Trouble is that when he is with someone it never seems to work out. As soon as he is with someone, if he feels it is not going to work out he ends it. He will "test" the relationship in the begging and end it quickly if it fails his test because he believes he's saving him self from something. Basically he has problem with being single and feels that his life will never be complete until he's with someone, and as a result will never be happy until that happens. He's looking for "the one". He also feels that being gay, 22 and looking for a relationship makes things more difficult because of the size of the gay community and the lack of interest in a relationship amongst gay people in our age group.

My counter to his opinions was simply just slow down, relax, and have fun. He's in such a rush to find a relationship he's not allowing him self time to have fun getting to know a person. We both are only 22. It's not like were going to die tomorrow. I also tried explaining to him that being young and single is not a con, it's really a pro. When your young and single it gives you a chance to get to know yourself, focus on goals other than being with someone like going back to school or getting a promotion at work. In other words, find out how to be happy with being single before you try to be happy in a relationship. I honestly do think that if you can find a happy balance in your single life before looking for someone to be with it will make the relationship in the future better.

I also tried to drill it into is head that the mind set of, "finding a relationship is the ultimate goal in life" can be a dangerous mind set to get into, but I think we've all been there at least once in our lives. My main concern is the utter lack of independence that the statement sends out. I think one of the worst things anyone can do is become completely dependant on a person to provide them with happiness. People break up all the time and if your not prepared for that, when it does happen your going to be a huge mess. I'm not saying that I think we should get into a relationship with someone excepting it to end. I'm just saying try not to fool your self into thinking that if you are in a relationship it HAS to last forever. Like everything else in life take it one day at a time and enjoy it while you can. If it does last forever then you will have probably have been able to enjoy it much more with out worry too much about it.

His "gay" comment got me thinking a little though. Is it really harder to be with someone for something other than sex in the gay community? Honestly, I don't think so. I know that last thing on my mind is any type of a "just sex relationship." The gay community, at least in regards to sex and relationships is just a microcosm of the straight community. Think about how many times you hear a straight girl complaining about how horrible men can be and that all they think about is sex. Then compare it to the percentage of gay men and women who say the same. Of course theirs no statistics on this, but it makes sense that they would be some what similar. We are all human. Some people looking for a relationship just need to have some patience and realize that the right person for you is probably out there you just haven't found them yet. You're also going to have to accept the fact that their are people out there (lots of them) who just want sex with no strings. I'm sorry to say it, but not everyone wants the same things as you do, that's just something you're going to have to learn to accept.

My point is that he shouldn't be putting so much pressure on people to be the "one" so early in the relationship before he even gets to know them. For starters, it's not fair to the other person. People generally have their own ideas of the perfect partner and that is really a hard image for another person to measure up to before you even give them a chance. One of the benefits of being so young is we have lots of time to get to know a person before we decide if they are or are not worth the time and energy of a relationship. I don't have a problem looking for "the one" if he's even out their, but what's the rush?

Of course, all this being said, the only reason I think this way is because I have done it my self. I put all my eggs in one basket before and got hurt bad because of it. Maybe this is something people just have to learn on their own, but that dosen't mean I can't give my two cents. What do you think?

2004-10-29T13:13:00.000-03:00

I rearranged my living room again. I get bored with the design quickly and I think that might have something to do with the furniture. I need a new everything in my living room, from my coffee table to my couch it's all old. My coffee table is actually almost as old if not older than I am, my parents bought it back in the 80's. It actually wouldn't be so bad if when we were kids we didn't use it to paint on. Theirs a nice little blob of yellow paint in the middle of it that I have to cover up with nic-nacks. The couch has been around since the early 90's. I really shouldn't complain too much, total cost of my living room thus far has been under $500.00, but I think maybe sometime after Christmas I'll start looking into getting some new stuff.

2004-10-24T18:27:00.000-03:00

Last night I went to my first co-head Fantasia party, I was a Fantasia virgin. For anyone who doesn't know, a Fantasia party is usually hosted by friend or co-worker and they have someone come into their home to show people attending the party various sex products (lotions, toys, books, games, etc). At the end of the party you fill out a card and write down what you and / or you partner might be interested in purchasing. Then you take your card into a private room and pick the products you wish to purchase. When you leave the room your products in a discrete bag so everyone at the party won't know what you ended up buying.

It was an experience. I doubt I'd ever host one, at least not in my apartment. I went to a co-workers party so most of the people there I didn't really know and I think it would have been a blast if I had know everyone before hand. I did have an awesome time, a little to drink, and too much chocolate. All in all a good evening.

2004-10-18T20:54:00.000-03:00

For anyone who loves the simplicity and accuracy of the Google search engine you'll love this new tool. The Google Desktop will allow you to quickly and easily locate files and folders on your PC though the Google search engine. Just like on the internet, Google desktop will index your PC and allow you to search any file you have on your pc. Now you'll be able to use Google to search for:

Outlook / Outlook Express emails

AOL Instant Messenger Conversation

Previously viewed Internet Explorer web pages

Text files

Word, Excel, and PowerPoint Documents

and more..

All you need do to install this tool is click here to go to the Google Desktop web site and click the agree and download button. The installer will close any programs it needs to and then it will install. Once installed it will begin indexing your system so you can start searching your files. When it's done, to use it all you have to do is go to www.google.com and click the desktop link, then search for which ever file you desire.

Their are a couple of things you might want to keep in mind before you install this program.

It will index any and all files regardless of user. If you use a multi-user pc and you don't want other users being able to search through your files that they might not normally be able to access you will probably not want to install this program.

Google will index https (secure) web sites. This means it will try to index any web page that you have visited including secure sites, such as your bank, shopping or any site that uses some type of security. To keep things save, I would suggest unchecking the "Include secure pages (HTTPS) in web history" in the preferences.

Finally, in case anyone is worried about important data being put on the internet the Google Desktop "...Does not make your computer's content accessible to Google or anyone else." Even though you go to the Google search page to search files on your PC you are only searching files local to your PC and they will not be shared with anyone else on the internet.

2004-10-17T21:43:00.000-03:00

Those who know me know that I love coffee, love it a lot! I drink it all the time and drink it for lots of reasons, whether I'm tired or bored it's always there. I recently discovered a new way of drinking my coffee that I wanted to share. It's simple enough. Take a tablespoon of cinnamon and mix it with your coffee grinds right before you brew it. Not only will your kitchen smell like cinnamon while the coffee brews, but your coffee will also have a little hint of cinnamon when you drink it. Yea, I know it's a little Martha Steward of me, but trust me... It's a good thing!

2004-10-16T14:50:00.000-03:00

It has recently occurred to me that some of the people I chat online with do not practice proper netiquette. According to the Netiquette Homepage, Nettiquette is the:

"...the do's and don'ts of online communication."

Simply put, do one to others as you would have done onto your self -- online! It's common sense people. For example, picture your self sitting down to a coffee with a friend, and right in the middle of the conversation, your friend gets up and walks away with out saying a word. For no apparent reason that you can see other than the fact that they may have had something else to do. This may sound silly in a real life situation, but happens all the time online, and I am sick of it. If you are going to end a conversation with someone online because you have to go because the phone rings, you infant is making the cat make noises you didn't even know existed, or your just tired of typing at least have the common curtsey to say, "I'll be right back," or even "BRB."

People probably have gotten this way over time because they may feel that chatting on the internet is nothing like chatting in real life. The internet is detached from the real world and therefore people shouldn't care how you chat with them, right? Actually your wrong. In case no one has notice, the internet is growing and changing at an exponential rate. More and more people who would never have dreamed of owning a computer let alone using the internet are in fact signing on every day. Just because you know that when your done chatting with someone you just stop and they shouldn't take offense, doesn't mean they won't.

As the internet becomes more a part of our every day life and less apart of that thing that scares the heck out of us, I would hope people will develop some sense of courtesy rather than flat out rudeness for the other users online.

2004-10-12T14:26:00.000-03:00

Have a blog? Want to get more traffic? Do I have a site for you. It's called BlogExplosion and the name says it all. It's a new blog exchange program that will explode the number of hits you get to your blog. I've been a member now for almost 2 weeks and have had almost 400 hits through blog explosion and the number keeps growing every day. With new bloggers joining blog explosion every day the number of people you can have viewing your blog is enormous. The site will only allow blog or blog reated web sites so not only will your site get hits but you'll also get to see other blogs from all over the world that you might not have ever seen.

It works simply enough. You scratch our back well scratch yours basically. All you do is sign up, and then surf through the others members blogs that are listed in the exchange. Every time you go to a new site you earn credits and then these credits go towards determining the number of hits your site will get. The more blogs you view, the more credits you get. The more credits you get the more hits you'll get. It's simple and I recommend anyone who has a blog and wants to generate more traffic to their site join now. Best of all, it's free!

2004-10-11T22:22:00.000-03:00

People are funny. I've been single for some time now, so it's possible I forget what it's like to be in a relationship, but I've started to notice recently that people seem to be suckers for punishment. Why is that? If you know that a situation is going to be bad, some people will put them selves in it anyway?

Bad relationships. If a person is suppose to learn from their mistakes, grow as a person and blah, blah... Why would someone go back to it? My view is if it's not going to work, it's not going to work. As hard as it may be to realize if your in a bad relationship it will be better off in the end to end it. Yes, it will hurt and may be hard but you'll be a better person because of it. You'll be stronger. Maybe, a small percentile of bad relationships work out but in the end I can't imagine that many do. Matters of the heart are a tricky thing, but sometimes you need to use your head as well are your heat.

All this being said, I'm am certainly not saying I'm perfect. I've done it. Gone back to something or done things I knew at the time were not nesicarily the greatest thing to do. My question is why do we do it? Most are smart enough to know that were walking into a mine field before it happens, but we march on anyway? Why?

2004-10-10T17:44:00.000-03:00

A few days ago I happened to mention that MSN 7 Beta had been leaked on to the net and was available for download. Unfortunately a few days afterwards, Microsoft began blocking people from signing into the MSN network using version 7 and forced people to downgrade back to version 6.2. Luckily, thanks to a clever person on the internet, you can now download a patch written in VB that will allow you to continue to use version 7 Beta. To get this patch, you can click here.

Once you download the patch, you'll need to extract the executable from the zip file, run it and point it to where MSN 7 beta is installed. More than likely it will need to point to C:\Program Files\Messenger\ . Once you point the program to the location of MSN 7 you just need to click the patch it button.

Some of you may run this patch and get the following error message "component 'COMDLG32.OCX' or one of its dependencies not correctly registered: a file is missing or invalid". If you do, you'll need to either download or patch your current version of the COMDLG32.OCX file. The instructions for doing this are here. The site will give you two ways to patch the file, but the quickest for me was to just download the file from the site and replace it with the file I already had. Then, bamm, MSN 7 Beta back online.

You might also want to keep in mind that this is still in Beta. As I said ealier this means that the program is still in development and will have some bugs. For a list of some bugs that have been found so far you can click here. Also, one of the reasons MSN 7 Beta was disabled in the first place was due to some security risks that were found in a new feature it has called 'winks'. If you continue to use this program you should disable the winks. To find out how to disable winks you can read the article written here.

Just remember, I'm only spreading the information so you can still use this program is you wish too. Use MSN 7 Beta at your own risk.

2004-10-08T23:02:00.000-03:00

This is awesome. I picked up a few propane type lighters today while I was at work to light the many candles I have around my apartment. I really hate having to stick my hands all the way down to the wick of a candle when it's getting close to the bottom. Yes, I could use matches, but they can smell.

Once I got back to my desk at work I happened to notice a little warning label on the side of the lighter. If you can believe it, my lighter is warning me that the lighter has small parts, and is not for children under 3! Four year olds however, can go to town!

2004-10-06T19:20:00.000-03:00

Boy am I slow in getting into this one. TBS and a few other networks have recently picked up the HBO series Sex and the City in syndication. I never really got into the show while they were airing the new episodes on Bravo here in Canada. More than likely because I have a hard time remembering that I have Bravo, let alone remembering to watch something on it. Well, I've caught a few episodes of Sex and the City now on TBS and I love it. I actually managed to get a copy of Season 1 (I'm not saying where from) and I plan on watching the series from begging to end. In true "Sean-fashion", I will more than likely have seen the entire series with in this month. I'm about six episodes into the first season. I know that had I caught this show when it was brand new I would have totally been hooked.

For anyone who hasn't seen the show, it's basically about a group of 30 something single women living in New York and the different types of relationships they have. The show has a great plot mixed in with clever humor. I defiantly recommend that if you have not seen the show before that now is a great time to get into it. If your concerned about bad language and such; the version on TBS has been edited for cable viewing. The cursing and frontal nudity are gone. Of course it's still not for children (I'm sure that's not going to stop them from watching it).

All in all a great show and I can't wait to see the whole thing!

2004-10-05T18:25:00.000-03:00

Like I was saying ealier, fall is offical here. Today I deicded to head to the nature park and enjoy it before fall turns to evil winter. Click on the picture above to see all the pictures I managed to snag, such a nice day.

2004-10-04T17:35:00.000-03:00

Fall is offical here, for more information check your local window.

2004-10-04T13:22:00.000-03:00

Anyone who is a regular reader of my blog knows I'm all about Goggle's web based email service Gmail. Well, to anyone who is lucky enough to have a Gmail account, I have news! I noticed today while checking my email that Google has added a new feature to their service.

Before if you wanted to send an email to multiple contacts you would have to type out each users name individual. The service is still in Beta so Google never bothered to add this feature when Gmail was first launched. Well, no more! Now, when you click the contacts link in Gmail you can select as many contacts as you want, click compose and 'ta day', no more entering email addresses one at a time. The only draw back that I've noticed right now is I still can't forward an email to multiple users at once from the original email that I want to forward. Their is a quick work around though. All you have to do is select the contacts you want the forward to go to first, then click compose. Once you are in the blank "compose" window, just copy all the contact information from the "To:" field and then go back to your inbox. Once there, select the email you which to send, click forward and paste all the email address you just copied and your good to go.

2004-10-02T23:46:00.000-03:00

For anyone interested, a release of MSN 7 Beta has been leaked on the net. If you are interested in downloading it and trying it out you can click here. Remember though, it's a BETA version and might have some bugs in it. If you don't want to deal with the bugs, wait until the Full Version is released. Otherwise enjoy.

2004-10-01T22:49:00.000-03:00

I posted this in response to a discussion on LeoVille Forums after the US government rejected a vote on a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage. I tired my best not to make is a post about religion, but it kind of ended up going that way. For anyone interested you can check out the article and posts by clicking here . As always, feel free to post your comments on my thoughts.

You know, I've heard it all and it really dose urk me when people compare homosexuality to beastiality. That's like comparing apples to rocks :S One makes a great pie and the other doesn't.
Their is a big difference between 2 consenting adults having a relationship then to someone who practices beastiality. It would be nice if the anti-gay marriage groups would stop using it as a comparison.

I agree with a comment made early in this post, I've been hearing Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve comment since I was in junior high. First, congrats on a catchy rhyme. Second, since I'm not religious and wasn't personally their to see what actually happened when man first came to be, I can't say what did or didn't happen. I do know that we live in a time where we have the right to believe what we want to in regards to religion. I'd like to see people stop using religion as a standing ground on this issue. I've always believed that part of the problem with this issue is the fact that people continually fall back on religion. If the governments are going to preach the fact that we all have the right to believe in what ever religion we want to, or not to believe in anything at all, then they really should stop using their own religious believes as a way to defend laws in the government. I'm not saying not to have your religious believes, but if you are going to live in a society with a diverse group of religious groups then religion shouldn't come into play in the government.

If a man and a women have right to get married and screw it up or make it work, then us gays should too. What's the worse that could happen, we get married and most of the marriages don't work and we get divorced? Not like our culture isn't use to divorce already.

2004-09-30T22:20:00.000-03:00

Excellent news for all you Family Guy Fans, thier comming back in 2005! You can check out the Offical Faimly Guy Web Site on fox for more details. For everyone that can remember, this is not the first time the show has tried to come back, but I actully think it may stay around for a while this time. Family guy DVD sales have been excellent. I've also read that the Family Guy marathons that different tv networks have been having high ratings when they air. I know I'm counting the days until we can see new eposides with Stewie, Meg, Chris, Lois, Peter, and Brian.

2004-09-30T13:19:00.000-03:00

Aren't you glad that you live in a part of the world where you weren't hit by several devastating hurricanes? I know I am. Unfortunately while I was lucky, many people weren't and they need help. If you want to lend a hand and make a donation you should go to the American Red Cross web site and click their Donate Now button. Their are lots of people right now who's homes were destroyed and were left with nothing. They need food, shelter, and clothes that all cost money. If you can afford it make a donation, either with the Red Cross relief or some other organization.

2004-09-30T01:13:00.000-03:00

I have a new favorite thing for my computer. I'm sure by now, everyone has heard of themes and desktop shells that you can get to change the way Windows looks and reacts. For anyone who doesn't know, a shell is basically the Windows environment you work in. Most people would be familiar with the Windows Shell, explorer. Now, I've tried a few shells and themes but haven't kept them around for too long.

I recently installed the shareware version of AstonShell on my system and liked what it can do, so I went out and got the Full Version. They have some nice themes on their site that are kind of neat (I'm such a geek). When the shell is running it can give your desktop added functionality. If you can notice from my screen shot all the drop down menus I have open. They are must more interesting to look at then the normal "my computer" or "recycle bin"!

Best part is, once the themes are running they are fully customizable. So if you want to add or remove some of the icons or menus you can just delete them. Or, if your creative you can make your own, save them and then share them on the AstonShell web site or any other theme site. If you want to check out AstonShell then click here and download their shareware version.

2004-09-28T20:18:00.000-03:00

Have you ever been talking to a friend or family member on the phone and they are explaining a problem they are having with their computer to you. You know how to fix it but don't think you can explain it to them safely. Well, I have the solution. An excellent program call TightVNC. This is a free program that allows you to connect to someone's computer and remotely control it. Once connected, you can do your thing, fix the computer and let your friend or family member get back to using it again. I personally have already used this 3 times to fix some friends computers and will defiantly use it in the future.

If you've used the program Pc Anywhere then you'll probably have no problems using this one. You just have to make sure that once the program is installed on both PC's you set the HOST computer (the one you want to connect to) as the server. You then would connect using the TightVNC viewer. Just remember that when you have the Host computer user set up a connection for you that get him/her to set up a password too! You'll be connecting with the users IP address, so you don't want the wrong people being able connect to their computer. In case you don't know, you can get your IP address by clicking start --> run --> command [enter] --> ipconfig [enter]. Your IP address will obviously be next to the IP ADDRESS field. Or you can click here.

TightVNC has 2 ways you can connect to the HOST computer. The first is called Fast Compression and the other is Best Compression. Fast Compression is just as it sounds, faster and clearer. Fast compression is best for use on a high speed connections (Cable, DSL). The Best Compression would of course be best for slower connections such as dial up.

Most important TightVNC is free to download and use. It's available on SourceForge or by clicking here. Try it, love it hate it, post your comments.

2004-09-25T23:47:00.000-03:00

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind was amazing. I was a little timid about watching yet another movie with Jim Carey in it. If anyone remembers The Mask, Dumb and Dumber, and the other comedies that he has done and cringes, forget them all and rent this movie. Even better, remember them all and love this movie even more! He did such an excellent job in this one that I will defiantly be talking about it at work tomorrow. I really love it when an actor plays a role in a movie that we are not use to seeing them in. This is defiantly one of them.

Basically it's about a guy who under-goes a medical procedure to have his memories erased when a girl he loves leaves him. The plot it self has an interesting way of playing out. It's almost like your watching the movie from the ending to the beginning so you really have to pay attention to what's going on otherwise you might get lost. All in all excellent movie and I defiantly recommend you go and rent it right now!

2004-09-25T01:47:00.000-03:00

So I was sitting watching TV tonight (big surprise there) and I saw a commercial for yet another reality TV show. This one seems to be a cross between The Apprentice and Fear factor (or course it's on fox, a network known for regurgitated TV). I have one question. When will the fade of reality TV stop? Honestly, give me a good, well written drama, or hell even a stupid comedy. The reason we watch TV is to escape reality, right? So why are we paying our monthly cable bills to watch reality? If I want reality I can look out my window. Give me my scripted TV back!

2004-09-23T23:53:00.000-03:00

Like it or hate it, this season of Will and Grace has Will dating someone. All I have to say is finally, this show has been on for a while now and Will has for the most part remained single. Their has been some on again off again guys, but no one stuck in the show.

When the show first came out a few years ago, I was floored. At the time I had never expceted to see any type of show with a gay character in it, espcially on prime time. This was about a year before I even came out of the closet and the fact that the lead character in the show was gay made me realize that "yes Virginia it's true, we queers are everywhere"

While some people may complain about this show and others like it, for not representing the entire gay community as a whole I applaued it and other shows like it for just being. Honestly, the gay community is such a diverse group of people how can anyone expect one show to represent all of it? TV is TV, life is life, and reality TV is just crap, so lets be happy that we are here today able to see television with gay main characters.

Remember not too long ago people fought for a 5 second kiss scene in an episode of Roseanne and lost. We have come a long way!

2004-09-22T23:42:00.000-03:00

This is a very addictive game. I've had it installed on my computer for almost a week now. I can't stop my self from playing it and making my Sims do all sorts of fun things. Thus far, I've created a gay couple, a family with a couple of kids and a single woman. When I played my first family in the game, child welfare services took my kid away. Only because she was failing school (good thing they don't do that in real life). I'm still just figuring the game out, but I imagine I'll be playing this thing for some time to come.

2004-09-18T17:03:00.000-03:00

I have a new favorite FireFox extension. It's called Translate Page and it does just what the name suggests. It will translate web pages from French, German, Italian, Spanish or Portuguese through Googles automatics translation feature. For example, say you are looking a web site that's in French, and your like me and only speak English (it's sad, I know considering I live in the bi-lingual province in Canada) all you have to do is click tools--> Translate . In seconds you'll have the "English version" of the web page. Of course, remember that when you translate any language word for word parts of the meaning may be lost, but you will get 'the just' of the site. It's great.

Also, speaking of FireFox the Preview Release of FireFox version 1.0 is out and they are trying to reach 1,000,000 downloads by the 25th. So everyone who doesn't have the preview version or any version of Firefox should click here to download it now and help them reach their goal.

I have been using FireFox for a little over a month now and love it for three main reasons:

1) It's not Microsoft
2) It has wonderful tabbed browsing so I don't have to have a million internet windows on my task bar
3) It's customizable (ie: loads of extensions and themes on http://update.mozilla.org )

2004-09-18T13:41:00.000-03:00

This is awesome. Ealier this month, Microsoft began an online radio clone service, were for 30 bucks a month you could listen to online clones of radio stations from all over the world. So, for example: Lets say you have a radio station you listen to in LA that you love, but hate the constant talk and commercials. With this service, they have basically copied the play lists from one station, renamed it and air it in their service with the new name. Their has been play list monitoring of radio stations on going on since about 1990 and Microsoft has apparently taken advantage of it.

Sounds good right? Sort of, except were dealing with Microsoft, so here is the kick. When this goes to court, Microsoft is going to be on the side supporting the free flow of information! I'm wondering if this will mean we will see the free flow of Microsoft source code anytime soon? According to this article from Wired news, Microsoft has not asked any station for permission to do this and has not paid any stations a part of a 30 dollar fee.

My point, and the point of the article. If its not okay for Microsoft to share their source code form their operating systems, why is it okay to take this information (radio playlists) and share it a way they see fit and make a profit from it?

2004-09-17T23:22:00.000-03:00

I have great news. As many of you may remember from the post about the guy who lives in the apartment underneath me I am not one of his biggests fans. I was thoroughly not impressed by the way he treated me, considering he had never met me before and didn't know me from a hole in the ground. Also, I have reason to belief that he isn't being the greatest partner to the girl he lives with. Lets just say I can hear him yelling at her at anytime of the day (he doesn't care who hears him) and I honestly don't know what she is doing with him. But, my point, and I am getting to it...

I was helping my super install another copy of Norton on his PC when he told me that they people who live underneath me would be out of the building by the end of the month. Actually, they'll be out by next Sunday by midnight at the latest. Now, for anyone who knows me, knows that I wouldn't hurt a fly and hate holding grudges. I try and give everyone the benefit of the doubt. Well, sort of. If we are talking about what I do for a living, that's another story, but people with people in general I tend to be a little bit of a push over. That being said, I met this guy for a minute, maybe a minute and a half and I can tell by meeting him for that short period of time that he would be trouble if he had of stayed. I'm honestly glad to see him go, and I don't think I've ever said anything like that before about anyone, but I am.

On a happier note, if anyone is looking for an apartment on the east side of Saint John send me an email and I'll give you the name of the new land lord. Building is close to the community college (NBBC SJ) and with in a 5 minute walk to the bus stop.

2004-09-16T16:51:00.000-03:00

Here they are. My new flowering plants and cute little roses to boot. I couldn't help my self when I saw these little guys at the grocery store the other night. They fit perfectly on my dinning room table and bring a little color into my kitchen. Thier going to be getting lots of sun sitting there and I'll make sure I keep the soil moist but if anyone has any hints in helping me keep these guys happy post a comment.

2004-09-15T23:36:00.000-03:00

I couldn't believe it until saw the video clip. Oprah recently gave her entire audience new cars. Two hundred and twenty-six actually with an estimated retail value of over $7 million. Oprah even had it set so the audience would be full of only people who actually needed new cars. Amazing! I only wish I had have been one of the lucky ones who was able to get one.

2004-09-13T21:41:00.000-03:00

Oh Happy day. The car was fixed and ready for me to pick up today. I was driving it to work and notice a big imporvement in acceleration. Don't need to push on the gas peddle at all for it to get moving now. I'm in such a good mood right now because I have my car back, I'll even pretend that the 203 dollar bill won't even make me upset!

2004-09-12T23:10:00.000-03:00

I just got done watching the Season Finale of Six feet under tonight. It was great, answered a couple questions about what happened in last seasona finale. The only problem is now, what will I do until season 5?

2004-09-11T23:35:00.000-03:00

For anyone who's been to my place or knows me a little knows that I have a little bit of a plant collection growing in my apartment. Since I'm not allowed pets, this is the closest I I can get to having one. I think their great. All you have to do is make sure they have enough to drink and they can grow into green leafy things that just look nice and add character to my place. Click on the picture above to see pictures of all the various plants I have scattered over my place. I do think I've got to take the leap to flowering plants. I've had bad luck with them in the past, but I'd like to give them another try.

2004-09-11T16:42:00.000-03:00

So, I was watching the screen savers last night and Kevin did a review on a couple streaming radio station ripping software packages (Free of course). So, I thought to my self, self, lets try a couple so I did. This is the best of the two that I've tried so far. Station ripper seems to be excellent at predicting when a song ends and when a new one begins. Basically the software connects to any winamp stream cast and saves all the music that a station is playing into Mp3 files. Best part is that you can do more than one station at a time. So, for example if you were to pick like 10 stations and record for a couple hours you'd have quiet a large number of new to you mp3s. I like it cause I'm always hearing songs on the radio and I can never remember the name of the songs to download later. Now, I just let this program go for a couple hours on a few stations and I will more than likely have a couple songs that I've been humming for a couple weeks now. Also, it gives me a chance to lock into some stations that will play music I might never hear. It's great and definitely worth a try. Let me know what you think.

2004-09-11T02:24:00.000-03:00

So, for all you G4TechTv Canada viewers, I think you'll agree with me in saying that THEY NEED TO CHAGNE THIER COMMERICALS! Not that I am a major fan of commericals to begin with, but if I see another commerical telling me about How to buy digital cameras, or Mp3 players I'm going to throw my remote at the TV. Really, enough is enough!

2004-09-10T23:58:00.000-03:00

What a day. I was happily on my way back from the Olsons Meat store after picking up some meats on my way to the mall. I just put my foot on the gas peddle of my car when I lost the residence on the peddle and it went right to the floor. No, I didn't speed away, I couldn't accelerate at all. The gas peddle, for lack of better terms, just died. It was not pleasant. Luck for me for me, however, their was a driveway I could pull into and a nice woman with a bunch of cute dogs let me use her phone book to look up a tow truck company. Forty five minutes later I was at Canadian Tire (yes, I know, but I had to get the car looked at now) and they told me the belt for the gas peddle broke off and has to be replaced. So now, if I'm lucky, I'll have my car back tomorrow, or if I'm not so lucky Monday. Kind of a piss of though, I was in a stupid good mood, just got paid and I was on my way to the mall to pick up some extra groceries. Well, not this week, now anything I needed to get will have to wait until next pay! May my gas peddle strap RIP!

2004-09-05T02:49:00.000-03:00

So, it's late to be posting about this, I know, but I just found out that Jonathan Brandis died in 2003 from commiting suicide. He's best known for his role on Sea Quest DSV as Lucas Woelnczak. I can remember seeing him on the odd movie and show ever now and then before and after sea quest and I always enjoyed his work. It saddens me to hear of his pass and I wish his family and friends the best. I've also added a like to a dedication site in my links section (joanathanbrandis.org) check it out.

2004-09-04T22:24:00.000-03:00

It's all about the stickers, I'm telling you. My friend Kelly is genious. She and her boy friend have found one of the best ways I've seen to pottie train a two year old ever. It's simple, find something the child loves and exploit it. In this case Marilyn, the two year old, loves stickers. So, everytime Marilyn sucessful "uses the pottie" she gets a sticker and gets to put it on "Marilyn's Po Chart" seen above. I saw here use it tonight, it's soo cute, Marilyn gets super excited about her new sticker and she using the pottie all at the same time. Brilliant!

2004-09-04T01:07:00.000-03:00

I love my Gmail. I think everyone should have it. It's great. 1 whole gig of free storage for your emails. That means you can get pictures from friends and family and NOT worry about your account getting filled up. You can get the 100 stupid forwards from your friends you'll never read and leave them in your in box. Bad thing about Gmail right now is you can only get them through invites. Good thing about me is I have 6 invites to give away, so I'll save 2 for my site. The first 2 people that post comments to this post will get GMAIL INVITES. So, post and good luck.

2004-08-31T19:24:00.000-03:00

This is super scary! Basically, this article tells you about a computer virus that, when installed, can activate you computers web camm remotely. In other words, if you have a web camm sitting on the top of your monitor right now, if you have this virus, someone could be watching as you read this. Very spooky I think, how many times have you been sitting at your computer in your underwear or something just after you woke up. I'm just glad that I no longer have a web camm!

2004-08-30T23:32:00.000-03:00

So, everyone knows that cough medicine tastes bad. Then why do they bother to lie. For example, this colorful red bottle of Robitussin Honey would leave the buyer thinking, oh this won't taste like concentrated evil because, it says honey. Well, HONEY, let me tell you, it not only tastes like concentrate evil in each of the 3 tsps you have to choke down, but it leaves you with a wonderful after taste in your mouth that just WON'T go away. I wish that they would be more like Buckleys, they don't lie at all, they tell you that their cough medice tasted like crap. Of course, I won't ever buy Buckleys, I can remember having it once when I was a kid, and yea it worked great. Down side was the taste was so bad I honestly thought I was going to die. Total shock to the system.

2004-08-30T00:51:00.000-03:00

So lets just think about this for a second. If you have this many people protesting your re-election, don't you think you may want to start thinking about finding some other job. It's not like anyone should be suprised when (and I say when) he DOSEN'T get re-elected. I can imange Americans are tired of fighting his wars, that *gasp* turned out be un-needed. The fact that he is trying to make an ammendment that would only allow people of the oppisite sex to be married just adds another nail in his coffin in my eyes. At least with Clinton, their was the entertainment of a sex scandel, now all we have is a bunch of pissed of people.