Blue sky

When Laura and I were travelling last summer in Spain and Portugal, after a couple of weeks something was bothering me. Something that I couldn't put my finger on, but just had a feeling that something wasn't quite right. How could something be wrong when the weather was sunny and gorgeous all the time?

After this feeling building up for 3 weeks I was able to figure it out: it wasn't ever cloudy. Ya, sometimes there were wisps of clouds, but it was always sunny and blue sky. Not that I want clouds and freaky weather, but that's what I am used to. Two days of clear weather in Canada is nice but rare. You can usually see big clouds at some point even if it's not going to rain.

I felt comforted when we got to San Sebastian and it was cloudy and cool. That was the first time we had to use our wind breakers in like 3 weeks.

I would never have thought that I would have gotten freaked out my nice weather, but I did. In another post I'll discuss about the food... ;-)

Scary things like microwaves

One of the things that bothering me more and more is the microwave. Yes, that does sound dumb, but I can't help thinking about what kind of damage we're doing to ourselves while we are in the same room as it. What makes me think that it is bad? Well, it was messing up our old 2.4MHz phone, and we "lose the internet" when it takes out our wireless router. Actually, it's very hard for us to use the wireless router around dinner time even if we're not using our microwave. That's what I find scary.

I just wondering how people will react in 50 years when we tell them how we live today. People won't believe how we couldn't know that the things we are doing are really bad for ourselves. I just hope that I am around long enough to tell those "crazy" stories... :-/

To house, or not to house...

One of the things that scares me: buying a house. Not because it's scary to have a house (I want one), but it's the cost. Apprently they are at a record high. Does that mean we should hold off for the prices to come down? Are the prices coming down?? If not, should we buy now while we still can?

*sigh* Who knew that we'd be dealing with "grown up" stuff like this. Now to get back to grapevine and mls (which is horrible by the way).

A T-shirt for me!

A co-worker pointed me to this t-shirt... It looks perfect for me. ;-P

Damn cursors...

Something that a co-worker pointed out to me today which I thought was really cool is the visual hint of html cursors. It's got lots of different properties like help, crosshair, default, pointer, auto, move, wait (mouse over the words to see what I am talking about).

Using the "pointer" cursor on a html label lets you know that it's clickable. As people know, I love html labels for widgets like radio buttons that can be difficult to target. I just love little helpful tips that add polish to an application. ;-)

My God, it's full of <del>stars</del> crap!

Checking some of the (video) content over on myspace and one thing that strikes me: it's all garbage. I thought that blogging was pretty bad (on average) where people dump the random things that happened to them that day, but to allow video? Oie.

The more access people have to publishing content, the more content, but the ratio of quality content can't seem to keep up. It's really quite amazing really.

I'm pretty lazy. My time is important to me. I love content that's been filtered by others like comments on /.. Places that don't have filtered content like the dilbert blog, I don't even bother to skim. I wonder how long till everything is connected, everything is rated. Instead of "street cred", people will have "web cred". Maybe it will be relative web cred so that my friends opinions will be worth more to me (as web cred) than similar people have half way around the world... oie. I am sure that someone else has thought long and hard about this and have written sci-fi stories or a thesis about it. Either way, it's time for me to stop my current brain dump.

Happy 666!!

It's been hell today... just joking! Happy 06/06/06 to everyone. ;-)