Freakin' Priceless

You goota see this sucka!!!!

Darth Vader being cool

No Internet for you!!!!!

Last week I got denied Internet access from my lurvly Internet Providers, don't want to name them, let's just call them Dodgers.

It all happened last week when I came home to my Modem doing a lovely disco show, "Dodgers must be down again" I thought. What else can I think they haven't had a good record so far with me. So I left it overnight to see if they sort themselves out, next morning still the same.

The wife called them later that morning and was told our bucket-o-bolts PC was apparently attacking their precious network so they blocked my Internet connection. Also she was told that they left a voicemail telling us that, nice idea but............WE HAVE VOIP!!!!!!!

If you cut us off we don't have a phone service numpties!!!!!!

Also I have far better use of my time, rather than letting my PC loose on your network, I just not that starved of attention.

Anyway I spend 30 mins at lunch, at work talking to their "Security advisor" and all he could tell me was that my system had something called the "Arbor" virus. Now for the rest of my lunch I was trying to find some info on this.......nothing. What I was also told that I need to scan my PC for viruses and spyware, again another good idea but.........HOW CAN I GET THE LATEST VIRUS UPDATE IF YOU HAVE CUT ME OFF!!!!!!!

So I had to find updates at work in between calls. When I did my scan and guess what? Nothing! I asked the "Security Guy" earlier if I didn't find anything and his response was "reinstall Windows".....Lovely.

So I did just to make sure and now I'm all back up and running complete with firewall, so let's see if they cut me off again, this time they will cut me off for a week if they see something suspicious. If that happens it won't be active again, goodbye Dodgers.

Rant, Rant, Rant.........

Fits like a glove

Was at the Ottawa Autoshow last weekend with a few guys from work, just had to try some cars out for size:

Not quite me, is it?

Nope.......

We have a winner!!!!!(Yes I know it's blurry)

Happy Guinness Day!!!!

Had to do my bit for St. Patrick's Day................................

Winter not over yet

I was beginning to believe that winter here in Ottawa was almost over.........WRONG!!!!

Thursday afternoon there was a bunch of emails floating about work that there was a winter storm warning for our area, highs winds and 15-20 cms of snow coming our way. I thought "So what it's Canada, they expect this kind of stuff every winter", and they do. But in this email was a hotline for our site, just in case. So I went home thinking nothing more of it, had a look out our window every now and again to see if anything came of this.......not a lot really.

Woke up the next morning and before I switched the coffee machine on I called the number......"Dell Ottawa is closed today"......YES!!!!!

Now I'm only a 5 minute drive from and I can almost see my work from my window, but if they want to close, go ahead.

So it was a unplanned 3 day weekend ahead of us, here are the various stages of snowfall that was dumped on us during Friday.......

We got bored being stuck in the apartment all day, so we decided to have a wander out in the snow, we needed to get milk anyway.......

May have to dig the car out.

Those snow banks are getting bigger.

Glad I'm not driving in this.

We're almost there to get the milk.

The quest for milk was successful

Too cool for words

The Glen

This weekend it was another food outing, this time it had a Scottish theme.

The Glen, not far from us.

I when for the fish supper and look what I got, there are 2 lumps of fish there, one breaded and the other battered.

Jenn finished off with a trifle, I could hardly eating anything else, almost considered asking for a wheelbarrow to get me out the place.

Adventrues in eating out

Last night we tried to have an evening with Fiona, Jeff and baby Gemma but I guess it was not to be at the planned venue.

We planned an evening at a place called The Works, so Jenn called ahead earlier in the week to see if we could set a reservation. We were told that they are quite quiet around 5:30pm, so we planned for that time. When we arrived and wandered in, it was packed and there was a 45-60 minute wait just to get seated.

So we decided to make our way to our local Baton-Rouge but that also didn't work. So we choose a Vietnamese place just round the corner and that was quiet enough, at least we got a table straight away, it was good though, maybe we should try The Works again through the week. I was rather looking forward to trying some the burger there though.

Anyway, I have uploaded new pictures to my Fickr site of our Cruise in January. Check it out there: Cruise Pictures

Johnny Vegas Special

I see after browsing on YouTube that Johnny Vegas and Monkey!!!!! are back, for those who don't know this is, here is some examples of the previous ads for ITV Digital:











Got that?

Now the return......

I like my food beaten

I wonder if ye will see this guy doon at Corvi's daeing a fish supper.

Back to reality

Just got back from a 7 day cruise touring Labadee(Haiti), Ocho Rios(Jamaica) Grand Cayman and Cozumel (Mexico).

Pics coming soon....................................

Happy New Year

Happy New Year to you all

And here is a New year message from the cat:

Back fae Montreal

Merry Xmas to ye all!!!!!

Jist back fae Montreal, we decided tae come back on Xmas day efter a warning o' sna.

So we did an' jist got in afore it started tae come doon, noo it's all white oot there.

Wanna see where I work?

Take a look below:

Classic

Well it made me laugh.

WTF???????

Errrr............Why????????.......WTF????????????

Welcome ..

Welcome .., originally uploaded by Rock Artist.

Says it all doesn't it?

Where is the "Any" key?

Yes I know it's been a while since my last post.

Getting into how things work in a call center now. When I did my 3 weeks training I was asking myself if I was going to handle this, now after nearly 5 weeks of answering calls I can say it's getting easier. My first answering by myself was nerve racking, I was absolutely crapping myself. It didn't help I was being listened to by another guy, talk about pressure.

So far I've had a few crazy calls:

• A guy ordering 70 rubber feet - A real use of my tech knowledge
• An argument over what size a mini-tower should be - "This is not a mini-tower, this is a full size tower. I'm going to get a tape measure to prove this!!!!" - Go ahead I say.
  
• A women who was wondering where she could download Microsoft office - I think you need to buy a copy.

And of course I've had a few where they are demanding a whole new system because a small device is not working, like the touchpad isn't working.

The funny thing is I get most of these about 10 minutes before I finish for the day.....go figure.

Another question I get is, "Where are you?". I have to respond, "I'm in Canada". This conversation can go 3 ways:

• "Is it snowing?" - Yes we have snow all year round
• "Is that you all speak up there?" - Yes we all have Scottish accents
• "Why the Scottish accent?" - I was born there

So you can see it's interesting, will keep Y'all posted.

A new lodger

Posing, originally uploaded by Big Bri2005.

We've got a new lodger in our apartment.

Not seen much of her, she keeps hiding..

My last day at Bug Tracker

My last day at Bug Tracker, originally uploaded by Big Bri2005.

I know it's a bit late but I get there in the end.

Click o the above pic for a better view and to see what comments I added to it.

Moved!!!!

OK

We've landed in Kanata, west o' Ottawa.

Been here over a week noo but A couldnae git oanline 'cos o' nae interwebby-type-access available until last Sunday. But here we are, aw setup noo.

Anyway here is my "Real" reason for moving here: