Steven Reimer

This is the Porsche 9ff GT9. It's top speed is rated at 252mph! Too bad it's 2mph shy of the Veyron. You'd think they could have squeezed 3 more to put it over the top. Guess not.

Everything went to pot yesterday. At least on my computer. I had noticed a few odd things recently like my TV capture card stopped working. Yesterday everything stopped working. The clue was that during boot every executable returned a "Unable to execute binary file" error.

Thankfully I could recover most of my files with Fedora Rescue. So as of this afternoon I am running Ubuntu 8.04. The first setup attempt messed up. So I tried again and the install failed completely. I tested the install disk and it failed. Burned another, tested it failed too. Tried installing off the second burn anyway and it worked.

Dual monitors was a snap to setup once it installed NVidia's driver for me. All I had to do was add the TwinView option in the xorg.conf. VPN is working - quite a bit nicer than the old pptp-config I used to use.

I'm still in the process of getting Eclipse to where I want it and I'm sure there are other things that I will find I need in the next couple of days.

Wow it has been a long time since I have written anything here. Maybe because I've been so busy shoveling snow. Calgary has been living up to it's crazy weather reputation lately. We actually drove to Bow Island and back during the weekend. On the way back, the highways were probably 80% ice covered. Our vehicles in the ditch count between Brooks and Calgary was 14. 4 of which were semis.

When we got home, I found that my 2 LCD monitors had been delivered Friday after we had gone, and left on our steps in plain view of the entire neighborhood. Good job Canada Post. I'm surprised they didn't disappear.

I set them up Monday and they're awesome! Working from home is going to be fun now! No more fuzziness or wavy effects. Not to mention the desk real estate that opens up.

Now to see if I actually have any time to do any work this summer. I think we've over extended ourselves a bit with our evening activities.

We are back. Abby was great with her babysitters, but she does seem very happy to be home. There was no issue with her coming back to us. Her grandparents had an especially good time with her. A big thanks to Janelle who had her most of the time.

Abby has been incredibly hyper tonight. For the past hour she has been screeching and playing with a (child proof) pill bottle. I often wonder what's going on in her head.

I have finished putting up pictures from our trip. I may put up one or two more if I find I missed some good ones. I have enabled commenting, so comment away on the pictures if you'd like.

Until next time.