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Today is the New Moon, a Stargazer’s/Photographer’s best friend. As we are monday, I thought it was very à propos to include this blast from the past. This lovely souvenir is 25 years old!! Where has the time gone? I…
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Internet Plumber
A friend dropped of his Windows XP laptop with a virus on it. Been trying to get him back up an running all week. Looks like a clean re-install is the only solution. Somedays, I feel like such a plumber!…
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New Revolutionary UK Folding Plug: GENIUS!
Sure they drive on the wrong side of the road, drink warm beer and have designed their electrical system to boil a kettle in the short space of an ITV commercial break, but every once in a while some Brits…
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The DadCast Episode 6 – Tsunami Mon Ami!
Nearly Live from the Wendyhouse Studio of Valois Bay… The Dads are all back from a summer of parenting, projects and travel. Join us in this episode 7 for the start of our second season as we try to figure…
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J.D. Power and Associates 2009 Canadian Wireless Customer Satisfaction Study
J.D. Power and Associates released their 2009 Canadian Wireless Customer Satisfaction Study today, and I found the results quite interesting.
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7 Minutes with Windows 7
We do a lot of Windows bashing here at 2FatDads.com and in all fairness we usually have been given many good reasons to be so negative about the aging and flailing Microsoft OS. We’ll been using it since the Windows…
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Trust Me!
It’s not gonna have any of the problems Windows Vista had…. This time it’s going to be different… Trust me! Balmer even promises to come and personally fixes anything that goes wrong on the Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos machine. [ad…
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Is Google Evil? Part 3
Part 1 and part 2 of this ongoing series looked at visual clues that Google didn’t really believe in their mantra of “Do no evil.” In this installment I’m going to investigate some operational evilness on Google’s part. I’m a…
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Federal Liberals still begging for hand-outs without doing anything to deserve them
I got another letter from the Federal Liberal Party of Canada today, extolling the virtues for their glorious leader and how much better they would be at running the country than the current crop of scoundrels (my words). The bottom…
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Snow Leopard’s coming (oh wait, it’s here!)
The latest installment of Apple’s big cat OS is on its way (literally, at the time of starting this post it was leaving the sorting hub and on its way to a delivery truck). At first I was skeptical about…