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Posted by Darrick on December 29th 2005 to General
I’ve been lazy about updating my blogs the last few weeks, and as such have decided to make it one of my resolutions to post at least once a day both in The Cooler Zone as well as DR’s Corner .

Anything related to me personally will be posted in DR’s Corner, while anything not related to me will be posted in The Cooler Zone, until I decide otherwise or change the rules )
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Posted by Darrick on December 28th 2005 to General
I’ve been lazy about updating my blogs the last few weeks, and as such have decided to make it one of my resolutions to post at least once a day both in The Cooler Zone as well as DR’s Corner.

Anything related to me personally will be posted in DR’s Corner, while anything not related to me will be posted in The Cooler Zone, until I decide otherwise or change the rules 🙂

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Posted by Darrick on December 23rd 2005 to General
I was walking around The World’s Biggest Bookstore with a friend yesterday, and was browsing the business section, when I noticed this book called Blog Marketing. I quickly pointed out to my friend that the guy who wrote that book was my former IT Manager 🙂

It was quite an interesting feeling, knowing that one person you know has a book published. Even though I knew that Jeremy already had that book published for a few weeks, seeing it on the shelf of a bookstore just was an experience in itself. Somehow in my mind, if a person has a book released, he/she’s a celebrity; and the best part? The knowledge that that person is an acquaintance of yours 🙂

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Posted by Darrick on December 23rd 2005 to General
Within the last few years, I’ve seen a debate going on about the greeting “Merry Christmas”. It seems that certain groups feel offended by the phrase. They want it to be politically correct and changed to “Happy Holidays” or something similar that excludes the word “Christmas”. This Christmas, I’ve seen more and more people get away from the “Merry Christmas” greeting, and instead just say “happy holidays”.

I find this quite ridiculous. With other religions/beliefs, you can find people being congratulated on celebrating their beliefs, Hanukkah, Ramadhan, etc. Nobody seems to be raising a stink about this at all? Why is it that when Christmas is about celebrating the birth of Jesus Christ into this world, people suddenly act defensive and weird? Trying to take out the word “Christ” from Christmas just seems like a stupid thing to do. This is a holiday that has to do with faith and belief in Christ, so why take that out from the greeting?

Personally, I don’t really care what the politically correct phrase is. For me, it’s still wishing everyone a “Merry Christmas” and a happy new year !

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Posted by Darrick on December 12th 2005 to Life
Conversation in the car coming home from Church this morning:

My 3 year old son: “I’m hungry, can we buy donut dad? I be good boy”
Me and my wife : “You had your lunch, let’s wait till we get home”
Me : “Where are we going to buy donuts anyway?”
My son: “Tim Horton’s !!!”
Me and wife: 🙂

So we ended up buying him a chocolate dip donut from Tim Horton just because of his antiques. Just amazes me how he learns where we go to buy stuff without us ever telling him.

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Posted by Darrick on December 08th 2005 to Life
Yesterday was quite an interesting day for me. In the morning trip to the GO station, while riding in the usual shuttle bus provided by our building, we got rear ended by some car. We were stopped at a red light, ready to turn left when suddenly came a loud screeching sound behind us, followed by a loud bang.

I was just starting to think that someone behind us got hit, when suddenly our van was bumped forward with quite a force (not too hard though). It turned out, the car behind the one behind us smashed the car behind us, which in turn bumped us.

Everybody got off the van and surveyed the damage. Our van was not damaged too badly (bumper a bit dinged), but the car behind us was totally wrecked. I could only imagine that that person would have a pretty badly hurt back and neck after the whiplash from the force.

Anyway, after making sure everything was ok, we proceeded to run to try catch the last GO train (it was still about a 5 – 10 minute walk away, and we only had less than 5 minutes). Man, it was cold and I’m rather out of shape; that run really took my breath away quite literally 🙂

In the evening, I talked to our shuttle bus driver, and she told me that the person who caused the whole accident was charged by the police for reckless and dangerous driving and fined for not having insurance ($5000). I assume he’d also have to pay for a new car for the person behind us since he didn’t have insurance.

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Posted by Darrick on December 01st 2005 to Software
I installed Firefox 1.5 at home yesterday and everything worked fine. This morning, I tried doing the same thing to my computer at work, and lo and behold, it showed up with about 25% of the lower area below the statusbar greyed out. Nothing could be done to this area, and the only thing it contained was a red ^ on the left hand side of it.

It was quite frustrating trying to solve this thing, and I spent a good couple of hours browsing forums and the web for a solution. Some of the suggestions people gave:
– Un-install and Re-install the browser
– Un-install all themes and extensions
– Run in safe mode
– Create a new profile

In the end, after trying all those steps above with no luck, I decided to wipe out anything related to Mozilla Firefox (including the hidden Mozilla folder under Drive:\Documents and Settings\username\Application Data) on my PC and start from scratch; and voila, what do you know it works fine now )

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Posted by Darrick on November 25th 2005 to Life
Well, I always knew that I’m just not that interested in being a mechanic. It just never interested me that much. I just drove the car, and on occassion do the extremely simple stuff like change wiper blades, refill the windshield washer fluid, replace light bulb, fill up gas 🙂

Last night just proved how inadept I am at car internals. It took me almost 90 minutes to replace 1 front light bulb !!! in freezing temperatures (it was -19C windchill outside, so in the garage probably close to 0C ?)

You could split the time pretty evenly, about 45 minutes trying to figure out how to pull out the damn thing, and another 45 minutes figuring out how to put it back into its cage. And OMG, the layout designers for the car really should be congratulated by mechanics all around the world. After all, it is them who made the location of these bulbs so hardly accessible and impossible for a regular joe like me to change, that all the mechanics can do this for $40 – $80 an hour 🙂

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Posted by Darrick on November 22nd 2005 to Deals
Well, not to be outdone by Walmart’s sub $500 laptop, Dell has decided to offer something similar on their Inspiron 2200 line. [Link]

Dell also has this offer where you can add up to $600 worth of upgrades for free (well, I tried configuring the Inspiron 6000, and it didn’t offer me 1 GB of memory). The best one to configure would be the Inspiron 9300, as it allows all the ugrades, including 1GB of memory. [Link]

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Posted by Darrick on November 22nd 2005 to Deals
For those of you in the US, Walmart is supposedly going to sell these HP Pavillion ze2308wm ’s for $378 or $488, depending on area; this Friday in-store only (ie, no online purchases, although I can’t confirm this).
It’s a pretty basic configuration, but still quite useful for those needing a laptop urgently. Hopefully someone can get a good deal out of this.

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