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A few weeks ago, I bought a Acer Aspire X1301 + LCD, since it was a great deal.. C$399 + tax + enviro fees. I then sold the LCD for $50, leaving me with a C$349 computer. The plucky little Acer had some problems.. its power for gaming was.. limited, to say the least, and [...]

I received news that my former boss at UWA Arts, Mike Neville, passed away sometime last night. There’s so much that could be said. I know he pretty seriously pissed off some people doing his job at UWA, but in the end he was a force for doing things right, and he was still there [...]

Autumn at UBC Originally uploaded by theducks Don’t the hours grow shorter as the days go by? It’s starting to be dark when I wake up, and when I leave for work. But the colours are pretty. Oh for a camera with the dynamic range of the human eye.

We had a fun roadtrip down to Seattle and Portland last weekend. About 1200kms round trip. No tickets, but we did have something fall off a truck and scratch our car. Will wait to see if Avis wants my kidneys for that. US Customs were nice and quick. Seattle was great, but a short visit [...]

It seems I never posted about this.. we both have jobs now, and an awesome 17th floor apartment in Richmond BC. I’m working for a Big University, looking after operations for their VMWare environment (299 VMs and counting). Elizabeth is working for a small software company that does something like cpanel, but for IIS. We [...]

Good morning Vancouver Originally uploaded by theducks Sure, I could avoid 3 hours of commuting per day (and transfer that task to elizabeth..) but we wouldn’t have these spectacular views. What a country.

Working at a University, as I for some reason continue to do so, you are exposed to a large amount of political material from various student (and staff) groups. I also know some people who are pretty interested in Canadian politics. I remember that at one point, I’d see this political speech and think “wow, [...]

Some of you may have noticed I like to make stuff. Or at least talk about making stuff. Regardless, the ideas are there. Being a sharing person, let me show you the sites of some people I admire for their skills and abilities, and why I admire them: Mike Harrison – http://www.electricstuff.co.uk/ Kenneth Maxon – [...]

We went to Ontario about 9 days ago for a week. It was great to see everyone again. The day we flew was pretty busy, as we both started it with interviews. Elizabeth got offered her job, accepted it, and will be starting on August 20th or so. Mine went well too, and I’ve been [...]

Before we left for Canada our plans were thrown into more than a bit of disarray by theiving gits who broke into my mum’s house and stole a bunch of our stuff, including laptops and most of my coin and banknote collection, which I had been collecting since I was 7.

For the benefits of the internet and google, this is a rundown of what was stolen. If you happen to come across these, please let me know, and I will pass details onto the Police. Or just call the Western Australian Police yourself.