Well, it's finally here...

My bloggin' year kinda fizzled out at the end here... not too much regularity to the posts... (perhaps I need more fiber) :)

I've enjoyed reading all entries of my blog-world and real-world friends... it's been a privilege and a pleasure being a part of your experiences for 2007. I look forward to continuing to hear more about your cyclocross adventures, your, um, suki-ness, your snaux-bike iditarod craziness up in Alaska, your second ironman, and yes, even your strong opinions about, well, everything (so long as you sprinkle in those stories about your students that make me laugh out loud) and of course, I look forward to my trip with Jim and our kids up to Algonquin (that goes without saying).

I wish all of you the absolute best for you and your families in 2008!

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Happy Christmas Everyone!

I hope you all have a very Happy Christmas! Enjoy time with family and friends and remember, it's not important that everything goes exactly as planned, it's important that you're together to enjoy each other's company!



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Cool Firefox performance tip...

Try this out if you use FF and haven't done this already:

Here’s something for broadband people that will really speed Firefox up:

1.Type “about:config” into the address bar and hit return. Scroll down and look for the following entries:

network.http.pipelining network.http.proxy.pipelining network.http.pipelining.maxrequests

Normally the browser will make one request to a web page at a time. When you enable pipelining it will make several at once, which really speeds up page loading.

2. Alter the entries as follows:

Set “network.http.pipelining” to “true”

Set “network.http.proxy.pipelining” to “true”

Set “network.http.pipelining.maxrequests” to some number like 30. This means it will make 30 requests at once.

3. Lastly right-click anywhere and select New-> Integer. Name it “nglayout.initialpaint.delay” and set its value to “0″. This value is the amount of time the browser waits before it acts on information it receives.

If you’re using a broadband connection you’ll load pages MUCH faster now!

from: forevergeek.com

If you're easily offended, don't watch this...

That is one of the funniest commercials I have ever seen! I especially like the girl at the photocopier:

girl: "poop"

guy in cubicle: "doesn't count!"

girl: "SHUT THE F@*K UP!"

Abso-friggin-lutely hilarious!

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I know it's been a while...

but I'm working on a few things that I can't really post about since there's a chance that some people may read this that shouldn't know just yet what I'm up to. I know that sounds all cloak and dagger but I can't let the cat out of the bag yet and it's gonna take about another month or so until things are finalized. This is nothing bad, just something I think is gonna be great for me and my family.

Anyway, I've been reading all the blogs that I normally read, I've just not been commenting. Work is quite busy right now... trying to jam in the last few deliverable before year-end so that's all that's really going on otherwise.

P* is really enjoying his hockey. M* is not practicing his guitar so the lesson are making very slow progress. D* is... well, D* is D* and just as funny as ever for a 4 year old. It constantly amazes me how funny he can be... he has a very developed sense of humour (that's "humor" for those south of the border :) ) My daughter is turning 1 in a week... I can't believe she's a year old! It seems like she was just born a few months ago. She has taken her first steps and has no problem standing without holding on. It's amazing to see her develop... I'd forgotten how awesome it is watchin' them grow. (and NO! we ARE NOT HAVING ANY OTHER CHILDREN!) :)

Well, have a great day everyone and have a great weekend too... I've booked a day off tomorrow so I'll think of you all workin' away!

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