Blog of Boredom: Archive

How to create an F1 Prodigy?

I’m not sure how young too young is, but Ferrari signed an 11 year old kid to a development contract. Talk about a long term bet. Even if you aren’t a fan of F1 (or motor racing in general), this article is a great read.

Dec 17th

Link Bomb.

-Do you like the muppets? Personally, I like calling people muppets, but either way, they’re back in theatres this weekend and with a 97% fresh rating and average of 8.1/10, I may have to have to revisit the scene of my childhood. Reviews on Rotten Tomatoes Trailers on Apple/trailers (trailer 1 is awesome) Muppet Battle Royale @ The National Post -While I was into my double-digits at...

Nov 23rd

The Great Tech War of 2012 →

Amazon, Apple, Facebook & Google. This article breaks it all down and makes an interesting attempt to show you what’s about to happen in 2012. A great read for anyone interested in technology.

Oct 23rd

Master of my own domain - sort of

Technology has changed our lives and I’m still not quite over it. A perfect example would be today, while I was in line to collect my passport. I was watching a television show on my phone, when it rang. Dearest mother was calling from Jamaica, to say hello. As a perpetually broke student, I immediately pitched her on an incredible investment opportunity and let her know that it was a...

Jul 7th

A small update

My blog of boredom clearly hasn’t been updated in some time. That may be apparent to any of my formerly regular visitors. That pseudo-Chinese curse “May you live in interesting times…” was definitely hovering around for a brief moment, but I’ve landed on my feet and it’s time to get working on the new normal. What is the new normal? Well, it’s living...

May 21st

Whoops... Day 21, pt.2

I kinda messed up on the schedule. Instead of taking a ‘recovery week’, I did the regular workout. On the plus side, I haven’t destroyed the program. On the negative, I’m now doing P97X. As always, you can catch my exploits via the running commentary I’ve set up on the P90X Challenge page.

Apr 18th

“You think he’s an idiot, don’t you? No, you do, all of you do, up...”

– -Mark McKinnon Longtime senior media adviser to George W. Bush

Apr 12th

Day 21...

I’m on day 21 of my personal P90X challenge and things are humming along nicely. I’d like to take you back to a simpler time… a fatter time. I had reached a new low in my personal fitness and was down to the last notch in my belt. Fast forward to today and I’m back up to the 4th notch and going for number 5. I’ve updated the P90X Challenge page, so check it out and...

Apr 10th

“Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move...”

– Archimedes

Apr 9th

Change is in the air

It’s been a strange week. Why? I can’t say, but it was certainly memorable. A busy month lays ahead for me, as there are only two weeks left until exams and until my program-ending project is due. That’s would normally be plenty thanks, but the icing on the cake is the move to a new home that will come on the heels of semester end. The closing date on my house is May 4th, which...

Apr 9th

The weekly challenge update

I’m on day 14 of my personal P90X challenge and it’s actually okay so far. When we last spoke, I was complaining about well… everything. This week was much better and my muscles have stopped their little insurrection and resigned themselves to being confused for the next 90 days. Check out the P90X Challenge page to see where I’m at.

Apr 3rd

Mar 31st

Mar 30th

Explore a bit

ee those two links up there under the header? One of them leads to an ongoing journey of personal embarrassment. The other leads nowhere. Those round buttons to the right of the header are all about me and allow you the opportunity to feed my ego. Also, have you tried out the comments system? That’s a rhetorical question, because I know you haven’t. Disqus is integrated with Facebook,...

Mar 26th

Mar 22nd

A Fresh Coat of Paint

So as you can see I spruced up the blog a tiny bit. I’m going add photo galleries to the flickr link at the top. Let me know what you think of the new look in the comments, or give me a thumbs up.

Mar 21st

Mar 13th

UBB... Really?

If you aren’t familiar with usage based billing (UBB), then I encourage you to check out the CRTC website for more information on the subject, as well as doing a search for newspaper articles and blog postings. To sum it up briefly, UBB is designed to charge the user based on the amount of data downloaded. This is roughly the same as the kind of data plan that many of you may have with your...

Feb 3rd

Technology Shifts

So clearly I’ve been neglecting the old blog… It’s been almost two and a half months since my last post. I think the website has lost a bit of market share to the immediacy of a well connected phone. It turns out I ended up becoming what I feared - someone who owns a smart phone. I use it for a lot of the things I would normally use my laptop for and as such, the only time my...

Jan 30th

A New Challenger Appears...

I like to make fun of people who have smartphones - or more accurately, people who have smartphones, but don’t need them. You know who I’m referring to… you may be one of those people, right? Be honest… Do you really need that BlackBerry? Whether it’s the grade six child I saw checking Facebook on her mobile the other day, the bus driver sending a BBM while driving...

Oct 7th

Inception

Christopher Nolan has a knack for directing compelling films, whether it be Memento, Insomnia or the Dark Knight and this was no different. It’s not perfect, but then what movie is? By now you’ve likely seen the trailer and had a look at the mind-bending images that the movie has to offer and I’m not exaggerating when I say that this imagery is rule rather than exception. If I...

Aug 28th

Bodily Harm

I had an interesting experience today, on the way home to my parents’ house. I was walking to the GO bus stop, but things seemed a bit more chaotic than usual. The usually busy intersection, was absolutely gridlocked and there were police and media, on the scene. It turned out that the formerly docile union strike, that had been taking place outside the supermarket near the bus stop, had...

Nov 27th

Golden Boy

I found myself in the Palace of Westminster, to view yesterday’s session of the House of Commons. Prime Minister Tony ‘Golden Boy’ Blair had his weekly Q&A session, as he does every Wednesday and it was quite something to go to the structure and see all the history inside. No photography was allowed past the front room, so I unfortunately have no visual memories of the day. ...

Apr 20th

Hello, Friends and Neighbours

And we’re back from commercial. It’s been 5 days without internet, but thanks to a cafe, not 100 paces from where I sit, I was able to stay a bit connected. While I was offline I managed to get a job at the career & employment centre, using nothing but the massive amount of charm and wit at my disposal. As Neil rightly noted, there’s something quite amusing about gaining...

Sep 6th