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E-Ring also has potential from the couple episodes I saw so far... I forgot to mention... The Occasional Guilty Pleasure: 1. The OC 2. One Tree Hill

Here are my current faves that I... Watch regularly: 1. 24 2. Alias 3. American Idol 4. Rock Star: INXS Sometimes: 1. House 2. Gilmore Girls 3. ER Occasionally: 1. Law & Order 2. The Apprentice 3. Hockey Night in Canada Rarely Get to See: 1. CSI 2. Lost 3. Sopranos 4. West Wing 5...

FYI... The lake appears to be around 12 x 5 km or 7 x 3 mi. http://www.parkweb.vic.gov.au/resources/05_0359.pdf

Sigh... it's not like it use to be in the day of small town America when you would have a good idea of who actually sent you the junk mail. If you received a flyer from Joe's Tax Services, you could drive down to Joe's house at night and send a message with a burning pile of cow dung on his...

Speaking of ice wines, I had some of the best ice wine in my life at Chateau des Charmes in Niagara on the Lake. I can't remember which one it was, but it was damn good. I think some of you may have heard of Inniskillin ice wine (probably our most famous Ontario ice wine)... the stuff from...

Ah, I see some of you like wines from Alsace and Mosel (Rieslings and Gewurztraminers). These are some of my favourite whites (and yes, whites are passe these days compared to reds and, I have noticed in particular, the Aussie Shiraz). I am still searching for fine examples of Auslese type...

Their LaserJet 42x0/43x0 series are excellent workhorse printers that have proven themselves in the corporate workgroup environments I've seen them in. They have 200,000+ page monthly duty cycles -- far and away higher than almost any printer HP makes. And they can be found for under $1,000 US new.

I used to find Firefox useful at work, but they have since given me an official warning of "illegal software detected (Firefox) -- please remove immediately". I think this goes somewhere on my employee record too. Quite silly seeing as whenever I use IE, I get popups that try to install all...

Forgot to add that I like gmail enough to have switched from POP based e-mail and POP mail clients like my favourite Outlook 2000 (Outlook XP OTOH is brain dead in that it refuses to recognize that mail left on the server has already been downloaded before and persists in downloading all 50 MB...

They have. It's called gmail :) Seriously, it's been refreshingly competent compared to my other webmail based e-mail services (hotmail, Horde IMP, mail2web). My favourite features are its automatic address completion feature (you start typing a person's e-mail addresses and it presents a list...

I have been getting poor results with torrentspy of late as well. For that matter, my WinMX stopped working several months ago. I can see files on the network, but I can never initiate a successful download. I used to get awesome torrent and WinMX speeds at one point through my 6 Mbit / 800...

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Yes, it certainly is interesting how there are so many Aussies on this forum. Has it been through word of mouth (e.g., Tannin, Pradeep, et al spreading the word) or does SF project a massive banner ad onto the Opera House at night? :) For that matter, there number of Canadians on this forum are...

Checks are definitely a PITA. Aren't people using e-mail money transfer (EMT) down in the US now? The tech savvy are starting to use it in Canada for things like: You owe a friend $20 from dinner a couple nights ago, but you won't see him for another few weeks You buy something from a friend...

Merc, I am having trouble counting, but do you have 11 TB of storage at home? :eekers:

Well, I do like that PayPal was at one point the universal standard. Then they had competing payment services like BidPay and some sellers would refuse PayPal and only accept BidPay, which was annoying if you didn't want to set up multiple accounts with different payment services.

Understandably so...

That is so Canadian of you Gilbo :) New Orleans is sinking man and I don't want to swim

When we got hit with the Blaster worm 2 summers ago, my company's IT department didn't have the systems patched up and they had everyone's systems locked down with no administrative privileges. It would be almost an entire week before they could get us back up and running again. I asked if they...

Interesting. Last year I was buying a lot from ebay and just stayed away from merchants who only accepted a money order or PayPal via a bank account. It is good to know that they are requiring merchants to allow any PayPal transaction. I thought that merchants didn't like CC-sourced PayPal...

Congrats, Will. Must have been the happiest day of your life. Remember to savour (and record) every moment as he grows up... he'll be driving and picking up girls before you can say "I don't have enough money to send you to an Ivy League school!"

2002 Jetta GLS VR6 5sp Next car, in order or probability: Acura TL BMW 325i Mercedes SLK 280 Infiniti G35c Volvo S40 T5

Gasp! You did *not* just say that... Blasphemer! ----- You're going to have to clue me in on the Lynda Carter reference...

Don't agree with that... Let's look at two typical tea making scenarios at home: 1. The immediate pour into the tea cup or tea pot, straight from the kettle as soon as the water has boiled method. When the water comes out of the kettle, it is already below 95 C if you pour it shortly after the...

Well perhaps stupid is too strong a word, but it was still her fault, and as an adult, she should be responsible for her own actions. Why is everyone absolving her of being reponsible for the consequences of her actions? Was she mentally retarded? Was she forced to pour the coffee on her lap by...

Hmm... I think our temperature references are a bit different, time, but I will concede that the temps at McDonald's may have been a bit hotter than home brew with tea using a kettle > teapot > tea cup process, but I find it hard to believe that a person would sue someone else for their own...

Oh, I'm sure a lot of big telco, cable, and wireless companies are the same. There is something infuriating about paying someone for the privilege of (1) getting duped in a way that makes intelligent people who do their due diligence feel like complete fools, and (2) getting shafted and not...

I hope you don't find my tone too aggressive, BTW... you know how it is on the Internet, it's hard to judge... forgot to throw in a dozen smilicons to lighten the mood :D 8) :P :mrgrn:

That's ridiculous Greg. Coffee and tea is supposed to be hot. The kind of hot that everyone knows will burn you if you spill it on yourself like a clutz. In order to NOT burn skin, it would have to be served below 50 C (120 F). What coffee/tea drinker would drink stuff that tepid? If someone...

I would like to share a couple telemarketing stories, though. In Toronto, I find Rogers Promotions particularly aggressive and deceptive. Aggressive: I dismissed an aggressive agent peddling cable promotions one time very firmly. I had to yell at him to stop his pitch, say I'm not interested...

I have significantly reduced the amount of telemarketers I have had to talk to by listening for the usual 2 second pause that dialing systems inevitably cause. If I pick up the phone and say "hello" and somebody doesn't respond back in 2 seconds, I just hang up. If it's somebody I know and/or...

Canada also has some provisions like that in its legal system that prevents frivolous lawsuits... can't remember what it was, but you never see Canadians suing McDonald's for making them fat or for making the coffee too hot such that it burns when they spill it on their lap. They could easily...

Those of you in the midwest/northeast US and Ontario/QC... during the long cold winter, you said "please make the cold weather stop!" All I can say now is "ask and you shall receive". It's been hot as hell for the past month now.

Saw Batman Begins and Crash this weekend. One of the best movie watching weekends I've had in a while... We've already covered Batman, so I'll talk about Crash. Everybody says it's a story about racism, but it's much more than that. It's about interpersonal dynamics. It's about pride and...

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I have that problem too. You know, I have found that I didn't actually need all that hardware in the end. Heck, I've found that I don't even need a desktop anymore. Over the past few years with my desktops being on the fritz more so than actually working well, I have been relying on my...

Wow, 3 posts at the same time. Never seen that before. :) Programmer of last resort, maybe. I spend more time managing programmers as resources than I actually do programming. I spend maybe 5% of my time at work programming. We create and distribute a lot of Excel based reports. Most of our...

Here are a couple examples of condos adjacent to malls from Canada, as well as a couple interesting articles on underground cities -- important in Canada, so you can walk around and shop downtown indoors in the cold winter: Toronto http://www.icsc.org/srch/sct/current/sct0500/02d.html...

There's a bunch of apartments/condos in every city that are above or adjacent to a mall that not only has a grocery store on premises, but often a cinema, bookstore, music store, electronics store, clothing stores, banks, restaurants, and a food court right on a metro/subway/LRT transit line. If...

Anybody seen Batman Begins in IMAX 3D? A buddy of mine said it's so much better... can you confirm?

Excellent post, Merc. I've always thought Batman lacked characterization, but I thought it was all part of the mystique :) I am actually looking forward to Batman Begins to get a glimpse into what makes the bat tick.

Energizer 2500 mAh NiMH AA's can be found in any Best Buy or big box store.

I know, eh? You can just imagine everyone's disappointment when they realized Handy was just asking about plain old room air conditioners. Way to go Handy, you duped us all! :)

Interesting... I wish they had rechargeable versions of all non-rechargeable lithium photo batteries (2CR5, CR123, CR2) when I was going through a bunch of them a year at $10-15 a pop!

BTW, here is some good reading material on battery technology and care: http://www.buchmann.ca/faq.asp

LOL... That's a good one. May I refer you to Canon's own Digital Elph series, the Casio Exilim series, Pentax Optio series, and Sony T series. I guess when your reference is the honking big 900/4500 series Nikons, everything seems tiny. Again, if you're using the old school 900 series Nikon...

Let's take this a little further, because there is another layer I would like to focus on. How well does quality control and initial quality correlate with overall vehicle quality and reliability. Overall vehicle quality is a little too vague and intangible, so let's leave that alone...

The point was that GM's cars are very well made, as their plants dominate the industry when it comes to quality control and fewest number of defects per hundred cars as measured by initial quality surveys like JD Power, etc. I know there isn't a direct correlation between quality (or especially...

I find proprierary lithium battery packs quite nice in my Canon Digital Elph SD110. They last long enough for two days of shooting, and you can sometimes get the store to throw in a second one for cheap. In fact, I find the Canon SD110 with lithium battery pack lasts twice as long as my older...