Health Tips

We received this from our good friend Faye (aka Me-Me).

WATER...... It has been scientifically proven that if we drank 1 liter of water each day, at the end of the year we would have absorbed more than 1 kilo of Escherichia coli ( E. Coli) bacteria found in feces, in other words, we are consuming 2 lbs of POOP each year!


However, we don't run that risk when drinking wine, rum, whiskey,vodka, beer or other liquors, because alcohol has to go through adistillation process of boiling, filtering and fermenting.

WATER = POOP
BOOZE = HEALTH

Free yourself of POOP, drink BOOZE!!!

It's better to drink booze and feel like shit than drink water and be full of shit.

There's no need to thank me for this valuable information, I'm doing it as a public service

A New Project.....

Last weekend Niagra Falls was host to the first annual Rocketbelt convention. You might remember these devices from the James Bond Thunderball movie.

Rueters has a video clip, well worth watching!

Maybe I should build me one of these, that would make a great Sunday morning project. My wife will be so happy!

The Road To Fame And Fortune?

Well I have been plugging away at this blog thing for about 5 months now and it looks like Google has finally decided to give it some recognition. As of yesterday the Google Data Centres were starting to Page Rank it. So far about half the Data Centres have picked it up with a Page Rank of 3!!!!!!!!!!!

Woohoo, good times!

Now we have the fame, all we have to figure out is how to make the fortune.

Fun With Google News

Sorry about being so tardy with an update on here. It's been a busy week and I just have not had much time to blog.

I have however been playing in Google News and having a ball. The Google News feature basically trolls a list of 'accredited' news web sites and indexes news stories. One of the sites that I write articles for www.bloggernews.net is part of the Google News world.

It's fun to tinker with, you write a news article and the game is to try and get ranked #1 on a Google News search. I have had great success this week, at one point I was #1 on a keyword search of "NSA", "Simpsons", and "Tap dancing". hahahahahaha

It's great to get ranked higher than CNN, The Washington Post, etc.

Hell I need to get a life! hahahahahah

Rent-A-Protester

Being really stinking old (well NOT quite as old as my lovely wife) I have seen many things in my time stomping around this small blue green planet. Growing up I had plenty of opportunity to witness protests about various things.

In the 60's I lived in England (small drab island where it rains a lot) and I can remember people being incensed that the Trade Unions were Bussing protesters in from other parts of the country when some company or another went on strike, with the promise of free beer and sandwiches to join the picket line.

In the 70's the big social events were put on by the CND (Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament), the protesters came from far and wide, although they were not paid, they knew that there would bee a plentiful supply of free recreational pharmaceuticals.

In the 80's I was freezing my nether regions off in the frozen tundra that is called Calgary (hell, I am back here again), and can remember the big 'beer strike', but there were no protesters. Canadians love their beer, and if some striking beer worker had been stood outside of a Government Liquor store waving a placard, they would have run the risk of some passing, 1/2 ton truck driving oil worker hurling an empty beer bottle at his head!

"Where is this all leading?", I hear you ask. Simon is long on scene setting hahaha

As some of you know I work at a Homeless Shelter. I was standing outside this morning at at the end of the driveway I could see a group of people holding banners up. I could only think that one of two things were about to happen. Some group was about to protest our existence, and there are several downtown organizations that have made it clear that they would much prefer that we relocate to the north pole. The second thought I had was it was some of our residents protesting about how hot the showers are, the quality of our library, or maybe even how good the coffee is in the Computer Centre.

I found out a couple of hours later that I was completely off mark with my ideas. Some guy from Vancouver wanted to protest about his treatment in Family Court about the visitation rights that he had been granted. His solution was to make up 20 placards, come to our location and offer people $10 if they would carry the placard down to the court building and hang out with him for a hour!

Mondays Are Hell!

One of my many hobbies is sailing, and my favorite sailing related site is the very irreverent www.sailinganarchy.com. I love people that do not take themselves too seriously. Their lead article this morning was....

"Today

Due to some technical difficulties (hangover), we will be a bit late getting today's content up (lazy). We should have some great stuff (doubtful) for you very soon (don't hold your breath). As always, we try to move forward (heard that before).

Ed (slacker)09/25/06"

A Man After My Own Heart

If you are a regular reader of this site you will have no doubt realized that one of my favorite pastimes is the wanton destruction of perfectly servicable computers. A fine example of this was the Tablet PC story.

I was cruising the net earlier today and came across a site created by someone who obviously shares my interest. His approach tho, is somewhat more permanent than my minor tweaks.

Have a look, it's a hoot!

Things You Learn From Blogging...

I wrote an article on Blogger News Network last week. I thought it was fairly serious and objective. It generated a huge amount of traffic to this site. Unfortunately It was mostly of the negative type.

The lesson to be learned here folks is its ok to be rude about the president.

And there are a gazillion sites out there that want him 'drawn and quartered', hung by the 'Yard Arm', impeached, etc.

But god forbid that you write a less than glowing article about Dog the bounty hunter!

Wrong Time, Wrong Place

I often wonder why I always seem to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. Maybe it is ordained, or maybe I am just genuinely unlucky.

We had a 'boat load' of computers donated to us a while ago. Part of the 'boat load' was a bunch of the smallest lap tops I have ever seen. They are Toshiba Portege 3100ct models. At first sight they look very cute and exciting.

For a week or so I heard mumblings and grumblings about these lap tops. I am not part of the refurbishing operation other than being the king of the idiot projects, and the undisputed expert at finding drivers for bizarre bits of hardware.

finally I decided that I had to get the scoop on what the problem was. It turns out that the reason the Toshiba Portege is so small is because it does not have an internal CD drive, or floppy drive.

When the units were first purchased they were preloaded with Windows 98, and came with an external floppy, and an external PCMCIA CD ROM. Unfortunately none of the external CD Drives had been included in the donation. As a result the refurbishing crew were at a loss about how to reload a clean copy of Windows.

I could see this project was going nowhere, and the laptops would end up sitting in a large pile in a dark corner of the workshop. So Silly me says "give me one for a few days and let me have a play with it".


These stupid laptops are so tiny that you have to use a funky little add on docking station to even get at a USB port.


Plan A was to build a custom boot disk for Win98 with the USB support included, and the drivers to get a USB backpack CD loaded.

It took about half a nanosecond to figure out that that was next to impossible (actually a couple of hours). The good old Win98 boot disks are just thinly disguised DOS 6.2 boot disks, meaning that they have next to no ability to deal with USB and certainly not USB connected fancy CD devices.

Being the undisputed king of bizarre uses for computers I cracked another beer and decided that I needed to rethink my strategy. Several ideas came to me, but I dismissed them because they did not have the right level of craziness:

Load up Windows 95 from diskette, install the CD driver's and upgrade to 98. This was immediately rejected on the basis that it was far too mainstream, and far too time consuming to do with each machine. Windows 95 came on about 25 diskettes.

Create a bootdisk that got the backpack Ethernet connector running and do an across the network install. This was rejected on the grounds that it was too easy, and why the hell hadn't the referb team done this already?


Then it came to me, something completely off the wall! Lets put the Penguin on the systems!

My first choice of Penguin was Fedora, but alas Fedora does not come with a boot diskette install option.

Debian however does! I downloaded and created the two diskettes (Boot and Root). Booted up the puter, selected an 'Over the Internet' install, and 2 hours later I had a perfectly good working laptop.

Oh my boss is going to hate this hahahahahahahahahahah

Oh Crap, What Is The World coming To?

It has been a busy few days in the new world. I am finding it hard to keep up with all the action. A couple of my favorite stories are:

Willie Nelson gets busted for having a pound and a half of weed, and some magic mushrooms on his tour bus. It is hard to believe that a music icon like Willie would play in the bad world of drugs! (Simon grins).

In Hawaii Dwayne (Dog) Chapman was busted on kidnapping charges.


It is clear that the world is in turmoil! These paragons of Western Civilization are under fire. I thought the fighting was happening in Iraq and Afghanistan, not so, the hot spots are Hawaii and Louisiana.

Now I do Not Like To Brag.....

This has to be the ultimate Condom!

Overdrawn At The Clicker Bank!

It was with shock and horror that I logged onto Blogmad and discovered that i was overdrawn at the Clicker Bank.

Who would have thought that it was possible to have an overdraft with a blog clicking thing?

And You Thought You Had Problems...

I came across a great article on Reuters news wire today. There is a US based religious cult that apparently is/was firmly convinced that the world was going to end in a big atomic explosion yesterday.

The group who decided to make their home in Kenya (presumably because not too many nukes are targeted on the Kenyan Game Reserves). They have created a big underground bunker, and stocked it with a years worth of food.

Apparently yesterday several dozen members of the "House of Yahweh", resplendent in gas masks, gloves, and long overcoats entered the bunker and plan on staying underground for an entire year while the whole atomic destruction of life as we know it blows over!

According to Sang (their leader) , a nuclear war between the United States and North Korea only failed to kick off Tuesday as expected due to difference in international time zones.

OMG! lets all get under the kitchen table and put paper bags on our heads to protect us from the fallout!

Too Cool For Words

Recently I joined another blogging endevour. The Blogger News Network is a site where people post news items. It is a fairly high traffic site and has good visibility with our good buddies at Google. It is also on the Google list of sites that it trolls for the Google News feature.

Yesterday I wrote a short article about Digital Literacy. I was just on Google and did a news search for "Digital Literacy", and woohoo, my story was ranked number one!

Check it out!