Well, just call me Mr. Plumbum. Last night I put in the new tap in the bathroom upstairs. I have to say I’m quite proud of my performance. I did pretty good if I do say so myself. It’s awesome to have a tap that doesn’t take 10 minutes to fill up the sink, and another 20 to drain. Then I topped off the evening by coming downstairs and removing the airator in the tap down here and then...
Wow, our lawn was crap. Just finished mowing the thing. Last night I picked up a wheed whacker and a reel mower. I figured anything that just won’t go with the the mower will be blasted to death by the gas weed wacker, thus saving some money on the mower. The only problem with reel mowers is that they don’t cut grass that’s too long very well and since the people who lived here before...
Finally. Internet day. Actually, it’s kinda funny. Last night after we got home from the barn, I was connecting to my wireless access point in the basement and then BAM, I get my neighbour’s. It’s not encrypted, but the DHCP is limited to only a certain IP. So I loaded my laptop up in FreeBSD, did a tcpdump, set my wi0 interface to his ssid and set the wepmode to off. Sure enough, I...
I bought my first song on PureTracks today. Green Day released the title track to their American Idiot album, to the world via all online retailers today. I think it’s pretty cool that as Canadians we get the benefit of the Canadian dollar because it’s only 99cents in Canadian and 99 cents for Americans in American currency. I didn’t like the fact that you have to use Internet Explorer...
I just heard that Bell’s employees are currently testing Bell’s answer to Primus’ Talk Broadband. For those who haven’t heard about it yet, it basically allows you to plug this unit into your high speed connection and then plug a phone line into that. The call is routed accross your internet connection to the phone company and then out whatever switch you choose to use. So, from...
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