Archive for February, 2008

Our 2008 trip to Hawaii

We just got back from a well-deserved vacation to Hawaii on the island of Oahu. We rented a car to get us around. We also stayed in 3 different places: 3 nights in Waikiki followed by 2 nights on the north shore and back for 2 more nights in Waikiki. There were [...]

Running Vista? What’s your Windows Experience Index?

Mine is 5.6

 

 

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His name is Barack

The American Democratic presidential race is now down to two main candidates: Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama.

Waiting for Canon’s next full-frame DSLR

When Canon’s consumer digital SLR cameras first came out, their sensor sizes were smaller than their film counterpart’s size of 24mm x 36mm. These smaller sensor are the same size as the old APS-C film size of 16.7 mm x 25.1mm. This resulted in the sensor only capturing a smaller section of the [...]

Looking for a Polaroid camera

Polaroid just announced that they’re getting out of the Polaroid business!  If you’ve got a Polaroid camera, now’s the time to stock up on instant film before they’re gone.
In the days of film and long before the digital camera era, people turned to Polaroid for their photography instant gratification needs.  Didn’t feel like waiting for [...]

Upgrade to WordPress 2.3.3

I just upgraded to the latest version of WordPress.  WooHoo!  Upgrade was a breeze.  Deactivate plug-ins, backup, copy files, reactivate plug-ins, done.
Now I just gotta see if my email notification still works.  I don’t remember where I set all the SMTP stuff.

Playing on TigerGaming.com

I got a letter in the mail from TigerGaming.com, an online casino, telling me how much they’ve missed me. You see, I signed up with them a while back and have since moved on to bigger sites like Absolute, PartyPoker and PokerStars. To get me to play again, they’ve deposited $25USD into my [...]

Windows Vista SP1 RTM Announced

Mike Nash from the Windows Vista product team has just announced on the Windows Vista blog that Windows Vista SP1 has been RTM’d (Released to Manufacturing). I’ve been running Windows Vista SP1 RC1 for the last little while and it doesn’t seem to have really cured the file handling issues.
One of the amusing things [...]

Imaginate!

I was just checking out the Michaels website and happened to notice their slogan: Imaginate.

A poor man’s watch collection – watch #6

This is my sixth in a series of posts on my humble watch collection.