Category: General
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Thinking About Photography: Expanding My Kit
So, I’ve got a great kit so far for an amateur photographer, but I’d really like to get to the next level with it. I still don’t intend on turning my hobby into anything more, but I feel like having better tools allows me to get more joy from the…
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1000 Islands Boat Tour
So on Saturday, Mark and I went on a ninety minute boat tour on the St. Lawrence. It wasn’t too bad. The boat was pretty packed, which was frustrating. The organization of the lines pre-boarding were pretty poor, and the people getting in the way of my cousin and I…
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Green Lantern Movie Review
So, while I was really excited about the Green Lantern live action movie, I had seen some reviews that were less than positive. I adjusted my expectations and warned my cousin before entering the theatre to adjust his as well. I had recently seen the DC animated, Green Lantern: Emerald…
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Weekend With My Cousin Mark
So this evening my cousin and I went to the Wine and Food Festival in Brockville and while we weren’t too impressed with some of the offerings or the size of the event, it was still fairly fun and I did find a few good local vendors that I can…
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Geek Article: Petabytes on a Budget
Backblaze 4U Storage Server 67 terabyte 4U server for $7,867. I really want to build one of these at some point…
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Movies of 2010
So, a few days more than a year ago, I wrote a post entitled, Movies I Want to Watch For the Rest of 2010, and in changing my theme, I’ve gone back to look over some of the nearly 300 posts I’ve written since starting this blog. I wanted go…
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IT Plan Approved
So, it looks like my IT Plan has been approved. I got approval today to send it off to a firm to get a once over from an independent organization to make sure I’m not doing anything crazy. I have a feeling they’ll probably want some numbers from me on…
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Midnight Idea for the Future
With Facebook growing by leaps and bounds, my biggest complaint or issue with Facebook is that it doesn’t really have an easy way for like-minded people to find each other and share ideas, stories and advice. A simple tweak in the way Facebook works could make it infinitely more useful…
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Dragon Boat Race in Brockville
So today, I wanted to go see the Dragon Boat races that were going on in Brockville, but I couldn’t find out online where they were being held. I knew it was along the St. Lawrence, and that it was at one of the parks along King Street. So I…
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E3 2011 – My Thoughts
So, I’ve been keeping up with as much of E3 2011 as I can, and for the most part, I’m not too excited by anything. There are some great looking sequels that I’ll definitely be buying, and I’m interested to see how the Kinect continues to evolve over time (I…
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Weekly Meetings
Where I work there are numerous weekly meetings to discuss all kinds of things, and being that one of the three responsibilities of my job is usually part of the agenda, I’m often involved in the meetings. I don’t mind meetings all that much, and while some of them I…
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Why I Work So Hard
So, in my previous post (So Much Work), my mom asked what I really had to gain from working my butt off at this company, and I wanted to take a second to answer her, but in a post, rather than just a comment. While I might still look at…
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