So I took the time to see the “tongue-and-cheek” humor of Apple’s new ad campaign called Get a Mac The videos show two people, each representing the PC and Mac. Typical to Mac-elitist fashion, the young-hipster-guy represents the Mac. Now, I’m not into the stereotypes promoted by these two characters—I’m somewhat atypical as a mac…

I’m a Ninja I actually did Siu Nim Tau today. That is the first form of Wing Chun. It focuses on the 108 hand movements in the system. I’m amazed that I still remember it. My form was terrible; my legs were tired, so the pigeon toed stance was difficult, and generally, I had no…

I ran well today. I left work a little early as I was zoning out again. Too many thoughts of what I need to do, rather than just doing the work. My run started out bad. I had a tightness in my chest that I wasn’t able to kick for the first 15 minutes (stress?…

So Friday night, after I got back from Art and Flo’s house and after I had a rousing chat with Miriam (who is doing a 1-year OT gig in Rankin Inlet, Nunavut), I logged onto my computer to google more about a DVI cable issue with my TV. Basically, I can’t display my computer screen…

I’m amazed how much time painting can take up. However, I would like to announce that the living room is now finished. Took all weekend (I was a hermit), but it’s done. I have primed most of the hallway and entrance. Still need to finish the guest bedroom, master bedroom, kitchen and washrooms. I’m thinking…

I went out for my second run through the cemetary. Passed by the grave of the Alexander Muir, composer of Canada’s official song: The Maple Leaf Forever [lyrics and midi file]. This was Canada’s un-official anthem until O-Canada. Up until today, I had never heard of it before. I still marvel at how beautiful the…

Baseball I saw a great basebal game at the Rogers Centre (formerly known as the Skydome). It was the Boston Red Sox versus the Toronto Blue Jays. Great game, and Toronto won 6-7 in the bottom of the 12 inning. To top it off, we crushed the Sox 1-8 on Saturday’s game. Watching that game…

I recently got rid of the multiple IM clients for windows and the mac and started using those über clients which handle all the common protocols (MSN, Yahoo!, AIM, Jabber, etc.). Couldn’t handle all the multiple windows opening at the same time—just plain annoying. For Mac OS X, I am using Adium, it’s based on…

NOTE: The following is very esoteric and technical in nature Found this interesting tip while perusing the jEdit mailing lists last night (fun filled…): Here’s the problem: Have you ever been working on HTML / XML code and wanted to see the bottom or closing tag? Jedit has this great feature that shows a line…