Here are my weekly notes:

• The Oilers went back to their winning ways with a gritty victory last night. They need to do more of the good things tomorrow night, like getting people right on Cam Ward’s doorstep. And for the record, Jussi Markkanen played great.
• My parents were in town Friday night on their way to Las Vegas. They’re going to San Francisco later in the week, and then they come back to Edmonton for a few days towards the end of the month.
• Congrats to Dickson on his recent convocation. Congrats to everyone else who graduated too, I know there’s a lot of you engineering types.
• I’m currently planning to attend realDEVELOPMENT_06 in Calgary on Tuesday, though it starts extremely early. Looks like a busy Patch Tuesday as well.
• Apparently the Xbox 360 dashboard update has been giving users some grief. I noticed a freeze-up once, almost right after the update was complete, but I haven’t had any problems since.
• Apparently the release of Windows Vista Beta 2 is the biggest download event in history. It’s a pretty big download, so I’m not too surprised.

Busy, busy, busy lately. Hence the lack of posting. Here are my weekly notes:

• Game 1 of the Stanley Cup Finals are tomorrow! I’ve got tickets for the game at Rexall too (they are showing it on the big screen) so it should be fun. Go Oilers Go!
• Talk about a heat wave! The last couple of days have been pretty toasty here in Edmonton.
• I finally saw The Da Vinci Code the other day. I enjoyed the movie, but only because I was paying attention. It’s definitely a movie that requires your full attention. I thought Magneto, oops, I mean Ian McKellen, did the best job.
• I’ve been playing around with YouTube lately. It has some great features, but could be a lot better too. They launched a big upgrade on Friday that lets you make your own channel.
• Anyone see Hard Candy? I’m planning to check it out this week. Looks interesting. Oh and don’t bother trying to find a torrent for it, all you’ll find is porn.
• As some of you know, we’ve got a few (read: 4) internet connections here at the office. One of them is TeraGo, a “fibre-like” wireless ISP. After a troublesome start, the connection is working incredibly well, and very fast. At about half the cost of a comparable fibre connection, it makes a lot of sense. Their service and support have been great thus far too.

Yep, these weekly notes are many hours late – I got busy last night and totally forgot to post them.

• I got this great link from Ylz. Turns out using a controller for games is more effective than mouse and keyboard after all!
• Wondering why Windows Vista is late? Because there is still so much to do, as was made very clear in Chris Pirillo’s review of Beta 2.
• Carolina beat Buffalo last night, which means they are leading the series 3-2 and are one step closer to taking on the Oilers for the Stanley Cup. I hope this series goes to Game 7 so that whoever wins is too tired to put up much of a fight in the last round 🙂
• I’m going to Red Deer tomorrow with my brother for the Red Deer College open house (where he is planning to attend in the fall). Yay, road trip!
• Did you hear the rumor that Microsoft wants to buy eBay? It’s not entirely unlikely – Microsoft wanted to make deals with all of Google’s competitors, and given the recent Yahoo/eBay deal, this would be a great way to hook up with the two largest. I say, get rid of MSN, focus on Windows Live, and partner with/buy the great stuff from Yahoo and eBay.
• Sony’s Ken Kutaragi is an idiot, plain and simple.
• Paramagnus is getting closer to a public test of Podcast Spot! We recently updated our product logo too.

It’s great to be back in Edmonton where the weather is nice! Man that rain crap in Toronto sucked. Here are my weekly notes:

• After winning both games in Anaheim, I am now more sure than ever that the Oilers are gonna sweep the series at home! Go Oilers Go!
• What do you know, Nelly Furtado got even skankier. Mere hours after my last post, she made an appearance as the musical guest on SNL and wore even less than she does in the video!
• Now this my friends, is scientific research. Darren Barefoot tackles the question of just how many blades we really need! Awesome post, seriously, check it out.
• Turns out lactic acid buildup in your muscles is a good thing, not a bad thing.
• I recently installed the new Windows Media Player 11 beta. Although they are missing some really great features from 10 (hopefully just because this is beta) I would say the upgrade is entirely worth it for the updated search functionality alone. It’s LIGHT YEARS beyond the previous versions, I love it.
• Did you know they are selling episodes of ’24’ on MySpace? That site continues to amaze me.
• Went and saw Over the Hedge last night – awesome movie! So worth it. I’ll probably review it later.

Just saw the Oilers beat the Sharks, same score as last game, 6-3. You gotta love the way the guys are staying composed, taking total control in the third period when the Sharks are tired. Here we go Oilers, game six back at home!

• Happy Mother’s Day!
• First day of the conference is tomorrow, which should be good. I’ll have lots of stuff to post over the next two days.
• A friend of my mine recently remarked that the song “Promiscious” by Nelly Furtado would be “the next it summer club song” and after hearing it, I have to agree. It’s awesome, probably due to the fact that it was produced by Timbaland. Furtado sounds a lot like Britney during the hook to me, which is good, because I found her nasal sound of previous songs annoying.
• Another hot track I like right now – “Me And You” by Cassie.
• Started reading Malcolm Gladwell’s “The Tipping Point” today on the plane, and so far I am enjoying it.
• Looking for E3 coverage? Engadget has some amazing posts, complete with photos, so check it out.

You know the drill:

• For all you Internet Explorer users: you might have noticed, the arrows on the right sometimes showed up distorted. Well, it shouldn’t happen any more, I think I finally got it fixed this weekend.
• Damn Oilers couldn’t get it done tonight, they didn’t play very well. Next game is tomorrow night at 8:30 PM. Schumacher won the F1 race this morning though!
• Yesterday was my brother’s birthday. We ended up watching Eurotrip (which I had seen before) and Waiting (which I hadn’t). I have to say, Waiting was awesome!
• Definitely a highlight this past week for me was getting published in the National Post.
• Along with Megan, Riva, and Greg I saw Mission: Impossible 3 on Friday (opening) night. It was pretty good, giving me everything I expected – Tom Cruise getting beat up, lots of explosions, etc. And unlike the previous two in this series, MI3 actually had a story (however typical) besides the outrageous stunts!
• Lots of driving this weekend…I wish the price of gas would come down!
• I can’t wait til Thurdsay for the season finale of Smallville. Last week’s episode was INTENSE, so this week should be incredible! I’ll never make it through the summer…
• Just installed the new beta of Windows Live Messenger yesterday – it’s awesome! Apparently there won’t be many changes from now until release, so it should be available soon.

I didn’t get around to posting any notes yesterday, so here they are:

• Edmonton has a chance to knock off Detroit tonight in Game 6 here at Rexall! Go Oilers Go!
• My Dad was down this weekend, for the last time for a while. He’s been traveling a lot lately for work, but he’s done now until later in the summer. I’m sure he’ll be posting more about his trip, so stay tuned.
• Kim went back to the snow in Inuvik this morning! She’s working for the summer in the frozen north, so no flip flops or digital cell service (and thus no text messaging) for her. I just got back from driving her to the airport. Have a good summer Kim!
• Dickson and I should be getting our new computers this week! We just got webcams too, so we can test out video podcasting.
• I’ve been using IE7 Beta 2 as my main browser lately, and I find myself missing Firefox for certain things. That tells me that IE7 isn’t ready for primetime yet.
• Allergies suck.

Funny how it’s always the weekend that has cold weather, though it did get sunny today at least. Here are my weekly notes:

• Thank you everyone for your kind comments, both online and offline, about Dante.
• Tomorrow is my last final exam of the year – I can’t wait to get it over with!
• The Oilers played very well today and tied the series with Detroit at a game a piece. It was weird to see them play the trap though, and kind of funny that MacT and everyone was so against the use of the word “trap”.
• Also on the topic of sports, Michael Schumacher won the first F1 race back in Europe today!
• It has been a light blogging week, with lots going on, but things should return to normal this week.
• There’s a big crack in my windshield! And I don’t know where it came from either. Kim and I noticed it yesterday – it was like it came out of nowhere. Fortunately it’s at the bottom and not blocking my vision or anything, so hopefully it doesn’t get any worse, otherwise I’ll have to get it fixed.

Some notes for this Easter long weekend:

• I had a good time up at the lake Sunday and today. We had an excellent turkey dinner and basically relaxed. In case you’re wondering, “the lake” is Goose Lake, which is about 40 KM west of Fort Assiniboine (north of Barrhead).
• I love Bacardi Silver Raz…though I may have mentioned that here before.
• Paramagnus was featured in the Edmonton Sun’s business section on Sunday, and it has stirred up some great interest thus far. Dickson posted about it too.
• The Oilers are in the playoffs and played an excellent game tonight! Tickets go on sale Thursday to Pipeline members, and Friday to the general public.
• One final exam down, one to go for me. Good luck to everyone who is busy studying and writing this week!
• I recently joined the board of The Learning Centre Literacy Association (no website yet), which “engages people in community based learning and literacy development that further enables them to make positive changes for themselves and their communities.” I have volunteered as a tutor in the past, and have worked with the Learning Centre through Humanities 101, so I am excited to serve on the board as a community member!

Here are my weekly notes:

• I have complained before that Firefox seems to use a lot of memory. Today I ran across this little hack that seems to improve the situation! Try it out if you have memory issues with Firefox.
• I don’t mind when people ask me for money on the street. Usually I am polite and say that I don’t have any change, sometimes I’ll actually dole out some coin. I can’t stand it however, when the person starts spinning some story that they are from out of town and need $15 for gas or something similar. You think I haven’t heard that one before? At least be original if you’re going to tell me a story.
• Interesting post at the Daily Kos, which examines a machine called the Narus 6400, apparently developed to monitor communications in real-time. Scary stuff!
• This is the last week of regular classes at the University of Alberta!
• Have you seen the new sleeves at Starbucks? At first I thought, what a great idea, using the space for a word of the day or something! I realize now though that they are simply marketing tools for “akeelah and the bee”, a new movie from Starbucks Entertainment (whatever that is).
• Now that Spring/Summer is upon us, maybe I’ll change the colors of my site again soon. What do you think?