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Posted By bran on September 10th, 2008

Greatest animated gif of all time. Period.

Posted By bran on September 7th, 2008

On August 9th, 2008 I emailed access Toronto about a lamp bulb that was out in a park near where I like to walk the dog. Here’s the original email sent to “accesstoronto@toronto.ca“:
Not sure who to email this to but the bulb on the lamp in the “Norman Jewison” Park by Yonge/Gloucester Street needs to [...]

Posted By bran on September 5th, 2008

You’ve seen it in variety and convenience stores and those glass fridges at take out food restaurants. The huge can of Arizona Ice Tea, 695 ml, and labeled right on it at great price of just 99 cents! Question is – have you ever gotten it for anywhere near 99 cents? Take it out of the fridge [...]

Posted By bran on September 2nd, 2008

Google has just released today its’ beta broswer Google Chrome. Some have already dubbed it the “Browser Killer”.  I’ve been an avid Firefox user since the beginning, making the early switch from Internet Explorer to Firefox and am very curious as to how Google’s attempt at the browser market will be.
So far very impressed. Very [...]

Posted By bran on August 25th, 2008

Upgraded to latest version of wordpress and now can connect via my iPod touch. Pretty cool but not the quickest using the touch screen and I am not even going to bother using any HTML tags!

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Posted By bran on August 24th, 2008

As a followup to my previous post, I noted that Rogers has provided a opt out for their “custom Rogers/Yahoo” search page. I was a little too soon to give them credit for it as I proceeded to select the opt out option and now I see this standard Internet Explorer looking “Cannot find server” [...]

Posted By bran on August 20th, 2008

I had heard that Canadian ISPs had begun to customer error pages with there own custom error page laced with their corporate advertising. This apparently pushes the net neutrality limits, in fact some claim it violates it.
I first noticed Rogers hijacking my browser when it first implemented it’s 60GB download cap per month. Once I [...]

Posted By bran on August 20th, 2008

Check out TorontoMusic.net to get a snapshot on upcoming music concerts and reviews in and around Toronto. It aggregates various RSS feeds from a number of music sources, put together in just one page to give music lovers an easy way to see whats upcoming around Toronto. It also includes local concert reviews.  It’s worth [...]

Posted By bran on August 10th, 2008

Looks like changes are coming over at cp24.com – See screenshot as of 8am, August 10th, 2008. It looks like it’s currently under some kind of redevelopment that hasn’t quite gone as smooth as planned. Interesting that a Java exception was thrown but not handled properly so it gives you a bit of an idea [...]

Posted By bran on July 27th, 2008

I just played in the Win a Weekend with Daniel Final and unfortunately, didn’t quite work out as planned. After playing for almost 3 hours, with about 5000 other players, I busted out around 900 place. It’s kind of painful after playing for so long to be eliminated fairly close to “in the money”. It’s [...]