I just want to wish everyone a happy new year and all the best for 2009. 

Now is the perfect time to set your new years resolutions and start something new for the new year.

A few of my new year resolutions have been made for the last few months and are already in execution.  So basically it will come down to maintaining them.

Good luck to all.

Labels: life, Miscellaneous, rambling

My girlfriend just discovered what a blog was and how its used.  So naturally the first question from her was “How come you don’t talk about me in your blog?”.  Well here you go.  Now back to work.

Labels: Miscellaneous, rambling

For years I have been using Microsoft Outlook as my primary mail program.  I have become pretty efficient with it.  I used it to manage two email accounts.  Then in 2007 I used the built in RSS feeds to manage all my RSS feeds.  This worked pretty good but was quickly replaced by a Newsgator that also synced with the online version and my Blackberry. 

Well recently I made the jump to get off of Outlook all together.  I use Gmail for my two accounts now and the online version works really well.  I don’t even need to keep a browser open.  I use the Gmail Notifier to let me know when I have a new email.

For RSS feeds I use the online version of Newsgator when I am at my desk.  On the road I use my Blackberry.

So far this new setup is working pretty well.  I have extra free memory on my system as I have one less big program running.

The hardest part of the migration was getting all the email that I have filed in Outlook folders migrated to my Gmail account.  To do this I:

1. Added my Gmail account to Outlook as an IMAP account.
2. Dragged each folder over to the Gmail IMAP account.

I did run into some problems doing this as I had too many nested folders which are translated into labels in Gmail.  I guess the labels were getting too long, but with a few renames I got by it.  It also did take a long time to complete (450meg) but I let it go over night. I do recommend you cleanup anything you don’t need before you start this. 

As online programs are starting to get better and better I find myself willing to move my data to online services.  Its one less headache when I have to rebuild my PC.  I’m going to start to look to move my journal online.  That program is always a pain to backup and restore.  Any suggestions?

Labels: Miscellaneous, software, Technology

I’ve heard of this before and I’m shocked that its still just this easy to create a bump key and pick a lock.  This guy makes it look really easy.

This is why I have a monitored alarm system. 

Labels: Miscellaneous

Randy Pausch gained world fame with a lecture he gave, called The Last Lecture, in September of 2007 after finding out that he had a terminal case of pancreatic cancer the summer before. 

This lecture is very motivational and a good lecture and if you have not seen it before you will enjoy it.

He recently died from the cancer on July 25th, 2008 and his memory will live on through this lecture.

Please take the hour to watch it and enjoy.

Labels: life, Miscellaneous

I am going to have to book my ticket to visit Dubai in 2010.  This is simply amazing!!!   I was impressed with their palm island and sever of their other buildings but this one is going to look amazing.  This is what we should be looking to develop here in Canada.  Why aren’t we?

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Labels: Miscellaneous