The Vince Files

I’m just so amazed at how simple the upgrade process is!Â
I’ll be changing to a new theme soon.  I just have to find a 3-column, SEO-optimized, ad friendly one first.

Today was our first major snowfall of the season.  The commute to work took longer than usual.
Coming home was a bit more interesting.  Our house is on a hill.  Getting down a snowy hill is no problem.  Going back up was a different story.  Even though our Mazda5 has excellent all-weather tires, it was no [...]

I noticed recently one of our heater registers was barely blowing any hot air.  I went to the crawlspace and traced the path from the furnace, through the plenum and to the ducts.  This is what I saw:

It’s made by Seville Classics Inc. and available at Costco.  This thing is rock solid and weighs in at around 110 lbs.  This is the real deal folks as in the kind of shelving restaurants use in their kitchens.

Now that we’re settled in our new home and mostly (99%) unpacked, we took a bit of a break to enjoy the fact that we have no neighbours on the other side of our walls.  Living in a townhouse these past several years, we’ve always had to maintain courtesy and not make excessive noise.  Also, [...]

The fastest implementation I’ve seen of a validator for a Canadian Social Insurance number is from hackcanada.
I’ve rewritten his JavaScript code here in C# with a few guard clauses at the top. Enjoy!
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private static bool ValidateSIN(string sin)
{
int dummy;
if (!Int32.TryParse(sin, out dummy)) return false;
[...]

I got my first Google AdSense cheque in the mail today!  I’ve finally crossed the $100 USD mark for the first time ever.  Google pays on a monthly basis if you have a minimum $100USD accumulated.
I’ve been displaying AdSense ads on my blog for quite a while.  It’s just been in the past several months [...]