I’ve been programming lots, which is why I haven’t posted as much as usual. Here are my weekly notes:

• Here’s a really great video I came across from the Inside CBC blog. It’s the first news report CBC TV did about the Internet, back in 1993. I think it’s funny how they refer to it as “Internet” and not “the Internet”.
• Went to Delux Burger Bar tonight, and had the grilled cheese. There portion was quite small, though there were lots of fries in these interesting little shopping carts (instead of say, a plate). The scenery is great, and they give you cotton candy with your bill!
• Addicted to video games? You might want to visit the new rehab center in Amsterdam.
• Mark Evans linked to the Canadian Tech Mob (basically a webring), which is an effort to show that “Canada kicks ass in tech and innovation.” I thought it was cool until I saw the website. No showing off tech and innovation here. Admirable idea, but seriously, the website looks like it was made in 1995.
• YouTube serves over 100 million videos a day now. Staggering isn’t it?
• Went to see Pirates 2 last night, and while it was an enjoyable movie, it is a complete setup for part 3. There’s lots of great action and stuff in this one, don’t get me wrong, but you’re left with that sense of “damn, now I have to wait a year.”
• As you may have heard, Intel unveiled their new Core 2 Duo processors this past week. By all accounts, the new chips look amazing! And as an Intel nut, I am glad they have reclaimed the lead from AMD.

Megan and I got back from Lisa’s party late yesterday, and I’ve been trying not to move around too much ever since. I learned a valuable lesson this weekend – sunscreen is your friend! Yep, my legs and arms got a little too much sun. Oh well, that’s what happens when you spend all day in front of the computer and then venture outside haha!

• Here are some pictures from the party. Thanks for having me Lisa!
• Zidane…what where you thinking? Italy won the World Cup today on penalty kicks, and Zidane was red carded in the extra time period for headbutting one of the Italians. The shot of him heading to the dressing room, walking right past the World Cup trophy, was very telling.
• Montreal and Toronto are getting really fast fiber Internet connections to residential areas, similar to what has been happening in the US. I wonder when such great things will move west? They aren’t too expensive either.
• If it’s true, I know what I want for Christmas/Birthday!
• I think something needs to be done about the oil companies. There’s no reason that the gas I buy for my car, which is refined less than 40 KM from the gas station, should cost almost ten cents more than gas does in Toronto. And I wish the US would just get it over with and do something about North Korea, if only so that prices don’t jump every time Kim Jong-il wants to get his gun off.
• Will there really be a talking iPod?
• Big week for my parents this last week! They officially decided they are moving from Inuvik to Yellowknife, which I think will be great for them (even though it’s still in the north). Along with my brother and sister who are back in Inuvik for the summer, they had a garage sale this weekend. Apparently about fifty people lined up before it started yesterday at noon. I told my parents, “your reputation precedes you! everyone knows you guys have lots of stuff, and thus they’ll probably find something good.” Hopefully my Dad will post something about the move soon (as Megan noted, he seems to have taken a little blogging break).

I didn’t touch a computer at all yesterday, which has got to be some sort of record for me. I also went most of the day without any Coke, which resulted in a headache! Anyway, as a result, I didn’t post my weekly Sunday notes, so here they are, for today instead:

• Congrats to Violet & Vincent! If anyone has additional pictures and you want help posting them, let me know.
• I must have missed the link when I saw the trailer, but Joe Wilcox points out that the upcoming movie “John Tucker Must Die” does not have a URL, other than it’s MySpace page. More proof that MySpace is growing in value – when will it end? Or will it? I want to see the movie simply for Sophia Bush, though Arielle Kebbel looks really pretty too.
• Excellent piece on the NYTimes website today about Google and their inventiveness (is that a word?). There is speculation at the end that Google will delve into microprocessor design, if you can believe that. Worth a read.
• With the recent renaming of WinFX to the .NET Framework 3.0 comes a brand new and very useful website.
• Maybe Renault/Nissan can save GM? I never would have guessed it either.
• Apparently Space Shuttle Discovery is a “Go” for tomorrow’s scheduled launch – take that, foam! Full coverage is available from the NASA website.

Here are my weekly notes:

• My parents are back in Inuvik now, as is Tom who went up for the summer at the same time. It was nice to see them for a short while!
• I simply cannot wait for Superman Returns! I’m really looking forward to the movie. It opens June 28th.
• Warren Buffet is giving over $30 billion to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Are we at the beginning of a major shift in world philanthropy? Sure would be nice if more extremely wealthy people joined the cause.
• This picture is just creepy.
• A simpler controller for the Xbox 360 a la Atari? That would be kinda neat I think!
• Beckham scored a lovely goal today to put England into the quarter-finals against Portugal.

Here are my weekly notes:

• Today was Father’s Day, so Happy Father’s Day to my Dad, and to all Dads out there!
• I don’t know for sure, but I think my recent .NET Wizards post is the longest I have ever written on this blog. I’ll try to be more succinct in the future 😉
• Anyone hear Oakenfold’s new track “Faster Kill Pussycat”? It features Brittany Murphy – yes that Brittany Murphy. It’s a pretty good song actually!
• There have been a lot of “looking back on Bill” posts since Gates made the big announcement. I particularly like this one.
• I noticed today that Gnomedex has managed to get Senator John Edwards to keynote this year’s edition of the conference. Unfortunately I won’t be going this time, but I’ll be eagerly watching online for posts/pictures/podcasts to trickle out.
• Game 7 is tomorrow night. According to Epcor (our city’s water/power utility) water usage in Edmonton increases by millions of litres in between periods, and drops to abnormally low levels when the puck is in play. GO OILERS GO!!

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.