by tyler_admin | Feb 13, 2008 | Personal Life, Uncategorized
Got my second Enbridge bill last night. $240.74. With the equal billing my credit after paying would be: $210.41. Gah. Morons. So I called this morning and this time actually talked to someone moderately useful. He lowered my equal billing gas charge from $210 a month...
by tyler_admin | Feb 12, 2008 | Politics, Uncategorized
I don’t get it. Stephane Dion the current liberal leader says the mission must change. I don’t get it. I really don’t. I know the optics of war are bad, but this whole movement from a combat role to a rebuilding role makes next to no sense. No in...
by tyler_admin | Feb 12, 2008 | Technology, Uncategorized
As if Blu-Ray didn’t need any more momentum Netflix has dropped HD DVD and thrown their support behind Blu-Ray. As an owner of a Blu-Ray player this is very sweet music to my ears. Do I believe that there is any chance of HD DVD making a comeback? Nope...
by tyler_admin | Feb 12, 2008 | Personal Life, Technology, Uncategorized
So for a second I am going to forget that Amazon.com has a gamut of great products at very competitive prices, products that dotCa just doesn’t carry. For the moment I am going to focus on the fact that the identical items are frequently at very different...
by tyler_admin | Feb 5, 2008 | Personal Life, Uncategorized
The city of Ottawa is a lot like Enbridge gas. They both like to rip me off. Like Enbridge the city sent me a bill for water and sewer that was completely estimated. Now not as bad as Enbridge, the city only doubled it. I called them, and they were very apologetic and...
by tyler_admin | Feb 5, 2008 | Personal Life, Technology, Uncategorized
Rogers loses. Last week with my new LCD TV I picked up the Rogers HD box. Does it work? Yeah, kinda. What is it lacking? HDMI! It has component video, but that is no where near HDMI. About the only solution I have at the moment is to get a DVI<–>HDMI cable...
