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So the new editor went live at midday. Owning a website is like having thousands of people rummaging through your house all hours of the day and night. I'm just wondering how long it will take for someone to open that particular cupboard and find the new toys.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
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I'm having serious, serious issues with the technology level of this country.
1) Canada gets the crappy cast-offs the rest of the world doesn't want. Take a look at the offerings of phones, laptops, cars - anything fun - and you'll see that everyone else has the fun stuff and Canada gets shafted.
2) What is so insanely difficult about paying a bill over the phone? Companies here want cheques. That's paper. Through the mail. OMG. I'm so insanely used to either paying everything from my online bank account, or at the absolute, stone-age, throw-back, I-can't-believe-this-company-is-still-in-businness worst, by credit card over the phone. So much so that when the angry young lady on the other end of the phone responded to my 'I'd like to pay my hydro bill please' with a 'that's nice - when?' it completely threw me. An odd come back, so I countered with 'Now', which she parried effortlessly with 'How'. Hmm - cunning. I tried a quick thrust with a 'my Visa?' but that was commandingly knocked aside with a 'you can't'.
Give me a frigging break.
3) Hydro here means electricity, instead of the usual 'water'. I think this comes from the power companies wanting you to have the idea that your electricity comes from environmentally sound hydro plants nestled in the pristine mountains surrounded by picturesque snow covered pines.
Update: I have managed to work out how to get registed on the hydroelectro companies website. I now have the ability to view my bills online. I can't pay them, but I can look at them. Brilliant.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
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I assume electronic payments are far in the future, then... What is it that draws you back to the land where the last Ice Age never ended?
It is ok for women not to like sports, so long as they nod in the right places and bring beers at the right times.
Paul Watson, on Sports - 2/10/2003
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Got the payments working.. I take back all the bad things I said about Cadada. Except the bit about not being able to pay by credit card. And the phones. The beer is good though so it's a sacrifice I am willing to make.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
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Glad you took it back. Can't you pay bills online through your bank? I'm sure Royal does that. Electricity there DOES come from hydro. Not all of it any more, but that's how it started .
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Friggin' huge spider crawled out from my briefcase yesterday. There is only one thing that makes me jump more than cockroaches ..... well, two things if you include broccoli.
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Regards,
Brian Dela
Run naked in the snow until you're sweating like a stuck pig and can't seem to catch your breath. When the flu becomes pneumonia, they can cure that with a shot. - Roger Wright
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Thats sig material
I walk these roads,
I climb these mountains,
Though they are nothing,
But paths and hills,
for the only mountain is success,
and the only road is life.
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Some people have a gammy leg that plays up when the weather gets bad, others have arithritic knuckles. I have freezing nostrils.
I've discovered that at exactly -20C my left nostril hairs freeze up. It's disturbing.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
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Chris Maunder wrote:
I've discovered that at exactly -20C my left nostril hairs freeze up
That's true. That's why this weekend I didn't went outside.
Morning : -14 °C ( 7°F ) Wind Chill -23 °C (-9 °F)
But nextweek it looks are very promising.
BTW, How do you know that at exactly -20 C your nostril hairs frozen??
What kind of experiments you are doing?
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Have you considered wearing a muffler? Or, perhaps, designing an insertable nostril warmer - a small coil of nichrome wire ( embedded in a castable thermosetting plastic ) should do the trick - powered by a power takeoff from your electric socks?
It is ok for women not to like sports, so long as they nod in the right places and bring beers at the right times.
Paul Watson, on Sports - 2/10/2003
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Can everyone who isn't an Australian or New Zealander do me a favour? Actually it's a favour to all Australians.
When you meet an Australian please don't try and do an Australian accent, and please don't yell out 'Crickey!!', 'G'Day!!' and 'That's not a knife!!!'. Volume doesn't make up for quality.
And especially don't do it if you're a middle aged bank teller and you have my card and I can't run away until you are done.
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Interestingly, I only say "Crikey" to myself or to non-Australians.
You can pick your friends, and you can pick your nose, but you can't pick your friend's nose.
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Not guilty, honest!
But I will admit to threatening to buy my (Aussie) boss a 6-pack of Fosters every time he comes up with a last minute feature "request"...
Anna
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Anna-Jayne Metcalfe wrote:
feature "request"...
ROTFLMAO... so he actually come and says... "Eh... we're scrapping everything you've done so far.. lets do this is a mixture of LadderLogic, legacy C and hmmmmm... PerlScript instead... ".. hehe... I'd drown him in Fosters!!!
Regards,
Brian Dela
Run naked in the snow until you're sweating like a stuck pig and can't seem to catch your breath. When the flu becomes pneumonia, they can cure that with a shot. - Roger Wright
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Anna-Jayne Metcalfe wrote:
Hehe it works for me...he's actually embarassed by the stuff!
Regards,
Brian Dela
Run naked in the snow until you're sweating like a stuck pig and can't seem to catch your breath. When the flu becomes pneumonia, they can cure that with a shot. - Roger Wright
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Anna-Jayne Metcalfe wrote:
actually embarassed by the stuff
We all are. It's our national Shame. Well, one of them, anyway.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
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Chris Maunder wrote:
And especially don't do it if you're a middle aged bank teller and you have my card and I can't run away until you are done.
hehe. Chris got stuck there for a while?
Regards,
Brian Dela
Run naked in the snow until you're sweating like a stuck pig and can't seem to catch your breath. When the flu becomes pneumonia, they can cure that with a shot. - Roger Wright
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I used to work with an Aussie guy who said "G'day" all the time. Drove me up the frickin' wall. So I'd never impose that pain on another human.
Do you get "shrimp on the bahbie" much?
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No, but I do get 'shrimp on the barbie'. We don't call them shrimp, we call them prawns. Little tiny pink nasties are shrimp. Big crustaceans that you can hold in two hands (as protrayed in those dumb ads) are prawns. And no one - EVER - would think about sticking a prawn on a BBQ. Half a cow, yes. Drowned in half a stubbie of beer? Certainly. But a prawn? I think not.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
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Chris Maunder wrote:
Half a cow, yes. Drowned in half a stubbie of beer?
mmmmmmmmm....cow.....
Would that be Fosters by any chance
I walk these roads,
I climb these mountains,
Though they are nothing,
But paths and hills,
for the only mountain is success,
and the only road is life.
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In each country there's always things that uniquely define the culture. While growing up you go through these things when you're young and don't really understand their significance. Moving to a new country gives you the chance to go through all this with wiser, and sometimes more fearful, eyes.
Some of the things I've done since moving here:- Had my first frostbite scare
- Seen my first frozen lake
- Driven on the wrong side of the road
- Watched a Hockey game and understood it.
- Walked around outside in a light pullover and basked in the warm sun. It was -8C.
- Used a broom to uncover my first car after an overnight dump of snow
- Had a lump of ice down the back of my neck that had dropped from the top of a building many hundreds of feet up.
- Used my credit card to scrape the ice of the inside of a car.
- Canadian Tire money.
- Stepped in a soaker - a puddle of water camouflaged by a thin layer of ice and snow.
- Experienced first hand what 'no credit rating' means. It's the little things about moving to a new country that really get ya!
- Shovelled a driveway after a snowstorm
- Left the beer outside to quickly chill it, because outside is colder than the freezer.
- Done some circle work in a carpark that was covered in a foot of snow.
- Had a Sloppy Joe.
I'll add more baby-steps as I make them.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
May the Wombat of Happiness bless your shorts - Roger Wright
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You should come to Vancouver Chris, It is totally different than other parts of Canada. You can go outside in winter, under the sunshine at 12 degree celsius and enjoy the sun. Let's not forget its freaking rain also!
By the way when did you have your first, 'Eh?';) experience or have you drank Molson beer? when did you see your first, Molson's 'I am Canadian' ads? LOL
When I first moved to Canada everything looked topsy turvy to me, but I have grown to love it ALOT!!
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I dunno. Vancouver is nice but it definately rains far too much. As an Australian who liven in Vancouver for 2 years I'm sure enjoying being back in the sun.
Oh and you're in Vancouver and you drink Molson ? Come on, with all the awesome local breweries thats a sin.
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