Category: Blog
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The Dadcast Goes into Pre Beta
We recently started toying with the idea of putting together a DadCast, a 2FatDads podcast, so I dusted off the old mic stand and put away my reels of spliced tape and decided to put WireTap Pro to the test of recording a Skype conference call between three or more of the Fat Dads. Unfortunately…
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BlackBerry: Get with the program it’s 2009
To be filed under WTF?!?! I was doing a little research for a post I’m writing on the BlackBerry Storm and I just had to call out BlackBerry for being complete Knobs and still requiring a user to access any of their pages with IE 5.5 or better. As a web developer, this really pisses…
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Backups, redux
Following on my trials and tribulations of getting backup routine going for my NAS, I’m pleased to announce I’m more-or-less there!
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The Reality of Cloth Diapers
I know this is a little off track for the Technical angle we usually take on this blog but it follows suit on my own post on the Inconvenience of Saving our Planet that I wrote about last week. A inside joke here at 2 Fat Dads.com is we’re doing it for the diapers, any…
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Backups?! We don’t need no stinkin’ bac…DATA ERROR: Abort, Retry, Panic?
There are plenty of online polls showing that most users don’t backup regularly and I was proud to NOT be one of those people.
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The Inconvenience of Saving our Planet
Now I will be the first to admit that I’m no saint when it comes to my own environmental issues. I do own a snow blower and drive 6 KM to work; I also suffer from a bad back and like to smell nice for my clients and colleagues. That said Schultzter’s recent post about…
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There’s nothing like the smell of a 2-stroke in the morning!
The downside to Twitter is don’t get context, you don’t get explanations, you don’t get the meaningful conversations that can only happen in a blog (YMMV)! So I thought I’d follow this series of tweets about gas vs. electric lawncare tools with a bit more background and discussion
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We’re 2 Fat Dads and We’re Geeks TOO!
Local Montreal Techie Hottie Shira Lazar is behind this awesome “I am Canadian” spoof about being a geek. And YUP! we here at 2 Fat Dads qualify as 100% Prime Geek! Great Video Shira! [ad name=”2fatdads_post”]
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No honey, no money!
I recently got a letter from the Liberal Party of Canada asking (begging) me to donate money to their “victory fund.” I have to admit that in the last federal election I contributed to the Liberals (both to Brent Fullard of CAITI fame and out of some misplaced sense of civic duty to my local…