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?

I got busy doing things, so here are my slightly late notes:

• We had a great dinner last night to celebrate our business plan success! Thanks again to all who came.
• Also Paramagnus related, we had some excellent press coverage this week.
• A “hemopurifier” that can clean dozens of viruses and diseases from your blood? Sounds interesting, except that it is very invasive and potentially risky (thanks Andrea for explaining why!).
• Did you hear about the bomb at a Tim Horton’s in Toronto today? Terrible.
• Microsoft has made Virtual Server 2005 R2 available for free download! Good news for everyone who wants to run virtual images.
• Earlier this week I talked about pocket computing. Appropriately, there is now an article up at CNET News.com talking about Palm and the last ten years.
• I finally saw Hustle & Flow this weekend. Terrence Howard did an amazing job, and I actually enjoyed the movie, which I did not expect.
• On the topic of movies, I came across an interesting one via Sharon. Apparently Tom Hanks is going to star in a film called “How Starbucks Saved My Life”. Nothing up about the movie at IMDB yet, so I don’t know how legit the story is.

We arrived back to Edmonton this afternoon without any problems (in fact the flight got in a little early). I’ve been taking it sort of easy since though, hence the lack of posting. Here are my weekly notes:

• We won the Wes Nicol competition! We also gave Leading Edge Technologies a run for their money in the VenturePrize competition.
• NewsGator renamed their Outlook product to NewsGator Inbox.
• Because I’ve been so busy and on the go, I haven’t read blogs as much as normal, but I did come across Mesh 2006, which is billed as Canada’s Web 2.0 conference. Looks very cool to me!
• The new provincial budget for Alberta was announced, which means that a new science building at the University of Alberta will get the go-ahead. The Centennial Centre for Interdisciplinary Science will replace Physics and V-Wing.
• Speaking of the budget, I hope the government doesn’t send out any more rebate cheques. Invest it! Or better yet, since the surplus is due to oil prices, knock a few cents off our gas! It’s sick that Toronto’s gas is the same price as ours. It’s freaking refined and everything RIGHT HERE! How could it possibly cost the same?! There are absolutely no transportation costs! I just don’t get it. Well I do get it actually, pricing gas is more than a markup business…but still.
• I’m sure by now you’ve heard that Windows Vista was delayed again. I’ll end up getting the OS around the time I expected, but people hoping to buy new computers with Vista for Christmas are out of luck. I have a feeling the delay will be worth it.
• A virtual podcasting expo was recently announced. Looks interesting!

Here are my weekly notes:

• It’s been a busy last few days getting ready for our presentations this week. You can read all about our business plan competitions and follow along this week at our VenturePrize Experience blog.
• The real web 2.0 application has arrived. Here’s another humorous app.
• Man we sure got dumped on this week, so much snow! The worst part about all the snow is that the farmers still won’t be happy. No snow, they complain there’s not enough water. Too much snow, too much water!
• Amazon S3 is amazing; its truly game-changing. I wouldn’t be surprised if some of the other big players copy them, and in fact, I hope they do. More services like S3 are what we need.
• Went to the Rush game on Friday night with Sharon because Tom was working (he got a job at Petsmart). I think she enjoyed the game, even though we got slaughtered 16-9. The next game is the 25th, with the Dallas Cowboys cheerleaders! I’ll be in Ottawa though…
• “Trip” by Hedley is my current favorite song. I also really like “Move Along” by The All American Rejects.
• Do you find the font size at Google or Yahoo or any other search engine too small? If so, Big.com is for you. The text is very, ahem, big.