First day of work complete. I have to admit, getting up at quarter to 6 was a bit of a shock to the system, I have a feeling mostly because I had those first-day jitters, and didn’t actually even let the alarm go off because I slept so poorly the night before. Shouldn’t have, I […]
Somehow going from faux-work (official first day is tomorrow, I went in today for a staff meeting), home and shopping then dinner, and getting pictures from my camera stitched and cleaned up (a bit) and resized, it took way longer than I expected, and somehow it’s suddenly 11! I didn’t even get a chance to
Here’s some random cuteness for you…. the Ear blanket, quite possibly heart attack inducingly cute. For more cuteness you can also be sucked into Cute Overload.
One of the biggest pains in the butt in my recently unemployed life was constantly re-proving myself, at various levels, to potential employers. This took the form of questions like: “describe how the linux init process works” “what does chkconfig do?” “how would you troubleshoot if you could not get to a webserver?” “what is
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A while back I built a MythTV box for my buddy, got it all up and running, though on an old Pentium 2 system with a small hard drive and a really ugly case. The system had a PVR-350 in it, which does hardware encode and decode, so the CPU speed didn’t matter a whole
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Finished watching Walk the Line today, the movie about Johnny Cash‘s life. Great movie. Not great on the level of Spiderman or a really kick ass action movie, but great for a drama and a “human” story. I completely understand why Joaquin Phoenix was nominated for the Award, and why Reese Witherspoon won. I loved
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I don’t bank with CIBC, at least not normally. I do deal with them on occasion though, and it happend that I had to run down the the local branch here on Monday to do some in branch stuff. No big deal. This evening around 7pm while I’m eating dinner the phone rings. The conversation
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Fun stuff, I got an accepted an offer from the company that Wim works at, so I’m now (or at least on tuesday will be) back in the employed lifestyle. This was the company that I’ve been wanting to work at for a while now, which means I’ll basically be doing the stuff I do
Last friday Firefly and I headed into the depths of downtown Vancouver to hang out with my buddy Shawn and watched a couple of movies. Other than getting home at half past 2am, it was a nice relaxing night. We watched a couple of movies, one I saw before, one I hadn’t. Æon Flux I
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Just a note to say that the interview yesterday (at the place in north van) went well. I met the rest of the team, had lunch, and discovered that all Cactus Clubs have free wireless hotspots. Next step is to wait for the $boss to come back early next week, and see where we go
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