I didn’t make the ludicrous pilgrimage to the Holy Land (aka FutureShop) this year to partake in the maddening shopping spree that is Boxing Day. I sent my father instead (sorry Dad). He didn’t get the HD DVD player he was after, but he did snag me the GPS I wanted.
It’s the LN735 [...]
At work, we use IMAP for our email service. This is great because I can get my email no matter where I’ve logged in, but Outlook doesn’t play nice with IMAP (probably because Microsoft wants us to use an Exchange server). So, I use Mozilla Thunderbird (or Thunderchicken as a friend of mine [...]
Environment Canada makes all weather data shown on their website freely available for anybody to use as long as credit is given to them, and no affiliation is assumed. I wrote this script because I wanted to get emails whenever a weather warning was issued in my area, and as far as I could [...]
Lately, I’ve been trying to tighten up my PHP coding practices. I already had a naming convention and a commenting convention defined, but the one thing I was missing was a practical, consistant, and elegant way to manage script configuration variables.
Previously, I had just been using a file called config.inc.php to hold variables like [...]
I took my new Jetta in to the dealer this morning to get them to fix a squeaking noise in the clutch pedal, and to my surprise, they completely detailed my car!
Very nice surprise. Way to go VW.
I picked it up on Friday. My brand new Pearl Black City Jetta. Man this is a sweet car.
It comes standard with
keyless entry
6-speaker stereo with aux-in (for my iPod), and a USB port for charging, or for playing mp3s from a USB stick.
4-wheel disc breaks
A really cool switchblade-like key
tilt/telescoping steering column
…and of [...]
