tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-51507032011-12-14T21:45:19.683-05:00A guy who was born in Canada, grew up in Indonesia, went to high school in Australia, spent half a year in Hawaii, and ended up back in Canada.<br> This is my story...<br>Darrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15664816876139542568noreply@blogger.comBlogger1101100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5150703.post-1118657250587500782005-06-13T06:02:00.000-04:002006-04-02T17:44:45.233-04:00

Well, DarrickRochili.com is finally up. Still got lots of things to modify (layout etc), but as of today, my blog will be moved there.My feed will be changed to http://feeds.feedburner.com/darrick.Technorati tags: Darrick Rochili

Darrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15664816876139542568noreply@blogger.com58tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5150703.post-1118534574902422662005-06-11T19:57:00.000-04:002005-06-11T20:03:18.343-04:00

I've finally decided on a host: Site5.com. They've got a good reputation on forums, and decided to give them a whirl.Also registered my domain name DarrickRochili.com, but haven't set up anything on the site as yet. I'll probably setup either a blog or site there within the next day or two.My next hurdle is choosing a blogging platform, I'm quite torn between Nucleus, B2Evolution and . More

Darrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15664816876139542568noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5150703.post-1118452423444761882005-06-10T21:12:00.000-04:002005-06-10T21:13:43.450-04:00

I got this response from Tris Hussey of Larix Consulting.>1. Would you be able to share some of the lessons you have learnt>during your time in this business.> >The most important lessons I've learned is having a really good RSS reader is essential, practise your writing, and keep yourself organized. Pro bloggers live and die by the amount and quality of information they have at their

Darrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15664816876139542568noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5150703.post-1118413684167627502005-06-10T10:25:00.000-04:002005-06-10T10:28:04.173-04:00

I've been scouring the Webhostingtalk Forums to try and find a good and reputable host, and have narrowed it down to 2 of these:- Site5 or- Reseller ZoomI've found out throughout the years through experience that it's not easy finding a good webhosting company, and that's why I'm doing as much preparation as I can this time, so I won't be disappointed.Technorati tags: Hosting

Darrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15664816876139542568noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5150703.post-1118398584555161542005-06-10T06:11:00.000-04:002005-06-10T21:14:29.046-04:00

Sorry for the missing day 8 post, I've been so busy at home coz my wife wasn't feeling well. So here's a post combining actions for day 8 and day 9- Emailed M.- Posted bulletin board message on Friendster.- Ideas: Jason Ryan Isakson ?- Decided to test out 2 affiliate marketing programs (Site build it probably, Jason Ryan Isakson), personal blog, as well as site for promoting business (4 total

Darrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15664816876139542568noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5150703.post-1118260430032151852005-06-08T15:51:00.000-04:002005-06-08T21:23:02.370-04:00

Summary of activities:- Emailed R & A- Emailed T & H- Emailed Seth Godin - Seth sent a bootstrappers bible document - very helpful, I'll quote some stuff after I've gone through it.- Emailed C, asking if he wants to join blog network, topic (personal training).- Emailed Tris Hussey from Larix Consulting.- Contacted A about possibility of designing site.- Researched various blogging platforms. (

Darrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15664816876139542568noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5150703.post-1118154518207637292005-06-07T10:20:00.000-04:002005-06-07T10:28:38.210-04:00

Just thought a break from posting about the project would be nice here. The Pistons beat the Heat last night and are going to meet the Spurs in the finals. Some thoughts:- My prediction: Spurs in 6 games, due to the extra week rest and easier series.- Even if Dwayne Wade had played game 6 & 7 at full strength, and Shaq didn't have that thigh bruise, I still doubt Miami could beat the Pistons,

Darrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15664816876139542568noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5150703.post-1118153038580550842005-06-07T10:00:00.000-04:002005-06-07T10:49:44.523-04:00

Well, I slacked off yesterday and forgot to email 2 people and make 2 requests because I've been so busy reading. To make up, I've emailed 4 people for day 7, and will think and decide on a domain name today.The only hurdle I have right now is that I still can't think of / find new people to contact for requests, and don't know what to request from them. I've received surprisingly little response

Darrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15664816876139542568noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5150703.post-1118152821012383362005-06-07T09:19:00.000-04:002005-06-07T10:00:21.020-04:00

I did lots of reading today, and absolutely forgot about my plan (hey, a plan is there so it can be changed right? :)). The 2 main topics that I've read about are related:- Affiliate Masters course, which although promotes a product, contains lots of useful information about starting such a journey.- The product that it eventually promotes called Site Build It.On a side note, I'm still having

Darrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15664816876139542568noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5150703.post-1118081235115752262005-06-06T14:04:00.000-04:002005-06-06T14:07:15.120-04:00

It's becoming more clear that in everything I'm going to decide to do, I need to find a specific topic/niche that I am interested in and would like to talk about. This is causing me trouble right now, since I'm not sure what specific subject I can/want to discuss on a fairly consistent basis.Any ideas anybody?

Darrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15664816876139542568noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5150703.post-1118061107530565422005-06-06T08:22:00.000-04:002005-06-06T08:34:09.410-04:00

This was a slow day, I missed one action. Had lots of things going on a Sunday and had to cut down on some time working. Managed to get some reading done though, and couple of great ideas. Oh, and I've managed to veer out of my plan for the week again :)Here's a summary of what I did on day 5:- Emailed D & A.- Emailed Duncan Riley of Blogherald.com and Weblog Empire.- Read more about affiliate

Darrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15664816876139542568noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5150703.post-1117972701293699882005-06-05T07:45:00.000-04:002005-06-05T08:00:44.436-04:00

Day 4:- Researched affiliates & ads, looked at sites making money from these.- Found some more info about pay per click sites.- Sent messages to various people on Sitepoint forums who're earning a full time income from online businesses.- Emailed R & D.Some thoughts & ideas:- Driving traffic by buying, targeted content.- Separate sites for various methods: PPC, Affiliates (such as Amazon), ads,

Darrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15664816876139542568noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5150703.post-1117909378625564122005-06-04T14:18:00.000-04:002005-06-04T14:41:05.610-04:00

On day 3, here's some of the things I did:- Emailed Darren Rowse from ProBlogger.net. Update: Darren is going out of town for 1 month, follow up in July.- Found some people to contact who’re making money through blogs.- Emailed Steve Hall from Adrants.com.- Emailed Darren Barefoot from Darrenbarefoot.com.- Emailed H&A.A couple of ideas surfaced after much thought yesterday:- Run affiliate sites

Darrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15664816876139542568noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5150703.post-1117813788875305302005-06-03T11:39:00.000-04:002005-06-03T11:52:32.606-04:00

This morning, while waiting for the train, I suddenly came to a realization as to why I tend to procrastinate a lot. This thought came up while I was thinking of some of the questions during our 2 week project.The 2 main foundations of me procrastinating were:- The tendency to have lots of ideas, and not enough action (stargazing), which in turn causes another problem:- The habit build over the

Darrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15664816876139542568noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5150703.post-1117805126500604802005-06-03T09:17:00.000-04:002005-06-03T09:25:26.506-04:00

Hi everyone, yours truly reporting on day 2 progress (yesterday).Tell 2 people: Emailed 2 of my buddies, W & P about participation in pilot, asking them to comment and see if I've made progress in 2 weeks.Actions: - Posted blog entry on day 1- Research various ways of making income, found out that most are a combination of these: ads, affiliates, paid surveys/surfing & selling products through

Darrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15664816876139542568noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5150703.post-1117719525998856042005-06-02T09:32:00.000-04:002005-06-02T09:39:18.866-04:00

Ok, so yesterday was day 1 of the breakthrough pilot. My 2 actions for yesterday were:- Create a plan for the research week- Come up with 3 questions to ask successful people in the industry.So, here's the 3 questions that I've come up with:1. Would you be able to share some of the lessons you have learnt during your time in this business?2. How long did it take you to build up your business to

Darrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15664816876139542568noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5150703.post-1117718574494785192005-06-02T09:02:00.000-04:002005-06-02T09:29:36.813-04:00

I'm currently participating in a pilot program called 2 weeks to a breakthrough. In the beginning I didn't really want to participate since I thought I don't even have 1 hour a day for myself between work and spending time with my wife and kid, but yet I ended up signing up, thinking that I would gladly sacrifice an hour a day of my sleep to actually do something instead of just having these

Darrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15664816876139542568noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5150703.post-1116593545227757792005-05-20T08:50:00.000-04:002005-05-20T08:52:25.233-04:00

*Drool* at the new Playstation 3.Lots of people have said they hate the looks of the new controller... well, I for one find it awesome and like the way it looks.Technorati tags: PS3, Playstation 3, Playstation

Darrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15664816876139542568noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5150703.post-1116421191248335392005-05-18T08:56:00.000-04:002005-05-18T08:59:51.253-04:00

I can't remember the last time I hit the gymn. As I recall, I haven't gone anywhere near it since my son was born, so about 2.5 years would be a good guess. Well, yesterday night I went to the gymn inside our building, and lifted some weights, and then ran the treadmill for about 1/2 an hour.Surprisingly, I wasn't that tired after that, and even though I fully expected not to be able to move in

Darrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15664816876139542568noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5150703.post-1116249060598251172005-05-16T08:47:00.000-04:002005-05-16T09:27:48.090-04:00

Within the last month, I've had 5 recruiters contact me regarding jobs that I might be interested in. Some of them left voice messages, asking me to call back, and some of them emailed me about these jobs, which is fine by me. I'm what you would consider a passive job seeker; I'm happy with where I am right now, but since I'm on contract and I'm looking for job security, a full time offer would

Darrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15664816876139542568noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5150703.post-1114015849434699942005-04-20T12:49:00.000-04:002005-04-20T12:50:49.436-04:00

Link - VideoWow!!! That's all I can say...

Darrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15664816876139542568noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5150703.post-1113845248406972232005-04-18T13:21:00.000-04:002005-04-18T13:33:45.483-04:00

It's an archive of a post I put on a newsgroup from 1994 (link - search for 'Darrick Rochili' on the page). Man, I remember those days when internet connection was scarce, and I was scouring BBS' for files to download, connected via Telix and MS-DOS. I remember buying my very first modem (forgot the brand), a 14.4 K for $400 Australian. Then I went to a summer class at the local university, Univ

Darrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15664816876139542568noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5150703.post-1113309999337917742005-04-12T08:38:00.000-04:002005-04-12T08:46:39.340-04:00

It's very interesting to hear the conversations going around these days. I notice that the younger generation (ie. about 20 - 25 and below) tend to speak using the words in the title a lot. For example, this morning while I was on the train trying to nap before coming to work (left office at 9 pm last night, application rollout that was supposed to take 2 hrs max ended up taking 4 hrs, thanks to

Darrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15664816876139542568noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5150703.post-1112705979467119202005-04-05T08:53:00.000-04:002005-04-06T08:44:27.303-04:00

- Interested in searching Yahoo and Google at the same time? Try YaGoohoogle. It searches both engines simultaneously and displays the results side by side.- GMail boosted it's storage space to 2GB. Way to go Google!- Today's the deadline for me to submit my preferences for my next placement. I'm down to these positions: Knowledge Management IT Intern ITSM Analyst IT Project Coordinator

Darrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15664816876139542568noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5150703.post-1112363542091421132005-04-01T08:50:00.000-05:002005-04-01T08:52:22.093-05:00

Whoa... I just got news this morning that there was a stabbing in my building last night about 10 pm. The building was apparently sealed off so nobody could get in or out. Scary thought (no this is not an April's fool joke)

Darrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15664816876139542568noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5150703.post-1112295999623845822005-03-31T14:05:00.000-05:002005-03-31T21:50:46.616-05:00

I've got Yahoo 360 invites available. If you want one, just post a comment (include a valid email address pls) and I'll send it to you.Information about Yahoo 360.Technorati Tags: Yahoo 360.

Darrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15664816876139542568noreply@blogger.com36tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5150703.post-1112201015205787152005-03-30T11:42:00.000-05:002005-04-01T06:37:40.446-05:00

I'm almost at the end of my 1st year rotation in the OIP, so I have to submit my preferences for my next position. I really wanted to stay at my current position because my skillset is a perfect match in this position (C#, ASP.NET, web, database, business analysis), but apparently we're not allowed to choose the same assignment for our second assignment.So right now I'm kinda confused as to where

Darrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15664816876139542568noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5150703.post-1112114521291994672005-03-29T11:35:00.000-05:002005-04-01T06:38:28.673-05:00

I've known about budgeting for quite awhile, and yet for the past few years I've been working, never really implemented a budgeting plan for the family. But at the beginning of this month, we started keeping track of all our expenses, personal and family, to see where all the money was going. I just created a simple Excel spreadsheet with a main form that gave a general overview of income and

Darrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15664816876139542568noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5150703.post-1111689941599650002005-03-24T13:41:00.000-05:002005-04-01T06:41:01.656-05:00

I just came back from the nearest Starbucks from my office. I went to get a grande White Chocolate Mocca and paid my 5 bucks to the cashier. I the proceeded to wait for my beverage. A few moments later, the server told me that they're out of White chocolate and if he could make me another drink. I asked for a regular mocca, and guess what, he told me that the drink would be on the house because

Darrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15664816876139542568noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5150703.post-1111687259309026572005-03-24T13:00:00.000-05:002005-03-24T13:00:59.310-05:00

Check these out .... nice trick to do...

Darrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15664816876139542568noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5150703.post-1111634787774947592005-03-23T22:20:00.000-05:002005-04-01T06:40:17.533-05:00

I was always taught that a cover letter should describe a bit more about a resume, filling in bits of details that you don't put in the resume, to catch the reader's attention. It should be clear, compact and concise, and usually no more than 1 full page of writing.Well, this morning, I attended a career planning session tailored for the Ontario Public Service (OPS) jobs, and shockingly found out

Darrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15664816876139542568noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5150703.post-1111544616021018382005-03-22T21:10:00.000-05:002005-04-01T06:43:50.223-05:00

Today I went to attend my first ever Microsoft Event. It was a free session on ASP.NET 2.0. Got to the venue (a large movie theatre) about 8.45 and had a lineup quite long. Fortunately the lineup moved quickly since we only needed to get our invitations scanned. Grabbed a croissant (wow.. really good food...) and went straight into the main theatre. The room was almost full already, so I got up

Darrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15664816876139542568noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5150703.post-1110989880233161372005-03-16T11:11:00.000-05:002005-04-01T06:34:01.256-05:00

Wow, didn't know there were that many Indonesians who were blogging. A google on 'Indonesia blog' or 'Indonesian blogs' reveal lots of results and links to them. I was very ignorant in thinking that blogging was somehow more popular in western countries. Oh well, good mind opener :)How did I find out about this? I was looking at the 2005 bloggies, and looked at one of the nominations for Asian

Darrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15664816876139542568noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5150703.post-1110989437511320412005-03-16T10:58:00.000-05:002005-03-16T11:10:37.513-05:00

Last night we managed to leave our son at my parents place for a few hours, so I could take my wife and watch Hitch. It was a pretty good movie, gave us a good laugh. The storyline was pretty typical of a romantic-comedy: guy meet girl, guy and girl fall in love, some major problem happen and they get back together in the end. In between, lots of funny things happen surrounding the plot.It was

Darrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15664816876139542568noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5150703.post-1110904406024958442005-03-15T10:51:00.000-05:002005-04-01T06:35:24.113-05:00

Okay, I'm not a guy who follows politics on a regular basis, and I don't profess to understand much of the political world, but I do follow what's going on in Indonesia since that's where I grew up and my future somewhat lies in going back there. Some of the actions of the leaders of the country for the last few years truly baffle me.Take these 3 examples that I want to discuss:1. A few years ago

Darrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15664816876139542568noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5150703.post-1110461500344144052005-03-10T08:22:00.000-05:002005-03-10T08:31:40.346-05:00

Hey everyone, it's tax time again. Just a friendly reminder that if you haven't done your income tax return, you should do it now. There are a few Canadian tax packages that allow you to file your income tax with Netfile, some of them are free for those with income lower than a certain amount. You can find out what these are at the Canada Customs and Revenue Agency website.I used to file my

Darrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15664816876139542568noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5150703.post-1110460702901875592005-03-10T08:06:00.000-05:002005-03-10T08:18:22.903-05:00

You've probably heard the term 'in the zone' in relation to professional athletes. When they're playing at the best of their abilities, and nothing they do seems wrong. A good example of this: NBA players when they are shooting the lights out and no matter how they shoot the ball, it just seems to go in. That's 'in the zone'Well, apparently you can be 'in the zone' at work too. I've experienced

Darrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15664816876139542568noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5150703.post-1110061354369759942005-03-05T17:21:00.000-05:002005-03-05T17:24:02.723-05:00

Anybody wanna buy an IKEA gift cert? We got it as part of our condo purchase deal, and after purchasing a sofa and a few other things, there's still lot left in it. Contact me if you want it... or even if you're going to IKEA to buy something , let me know so I can lend you my gift card, and you just pay me :)

Darrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15664816876139542568noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5150703.post-1109682151281290982005-03-01T08:01:00.000-05:002005-03-01T08:02:31.283-05:00

Didn't think something like this could be true. Amazing...

Darrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15664816876139542568noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5150703.post-1109604506825937752005-02-28T10:28:00.000-05:002005-02-28T10:28:26.826-05:00

*Sigh* ... it looks like the beginning of one of those days... Let's start this rant session shall we.I've had this annoying cough for almost a week and a half now. It seemed like I was getting better last week, but it just got worse. My son and I went to the doctor on Friday (my son also had the cough), and the doctor prescribed us some medicine that was supposed to help make us drowsy at night

Darrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15664816876139542568noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5150703.post-1109252546079995692005-02-24T08:41:00.000-05:002005-02-24T08:45:26.600-05:00

Ever notice how quickly we get tired these days? Ever notice how we long for a nice vacation, even though we just took one a couple weeks ago? Ever notice how cranky, confrontational and unfriendly people seem in our daily lives? Ever notice that there seems to be tons of depressed, crazy and suicidal people in today's society?Welcome to the world of information overload. Although there are many

Darrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15664816876139542568noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5150703.post-1109008827845312862005-02-21T12:55:00.000-05:002005-02-21T13:01:20.846-05:00

The person who came up with the robitussin cough ads should really get a huge promotion and pay raise. In my opinion, this ad is one that will live in lots of people's minds for a long time to come, and bring lots of profit and sales to the makers of Robitussin.Of course many of you have seen a couple of the ads, where someone coughs and another says 'Robitussin ... it's bless you for coughs'.

Darrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15664816876139542568noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5150703.post-1109008025585991252005-02-21T10:54:00.000-05:002005-02-21T12:47:05.586-05:00

After watching a 1/2 hour introduction process for the players and coaches for both teams, I was treated to a funny picture: Tim Duncan vs Vince Carter, and Kevin Garnett vs Grant Hill in the front court, while Kobe Bryant and Tracy McGrady took on Allen Iverson and LeBron James in the backcourt. LeBron vs Kobe and Yao Vs Shaq I could live with, but the other 3 out of the 5 positions were

Darrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15664816876139542568noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5150703.post-1108947423841083602005-02-20T19:50:00.000-05:002005-02-20T19:57:03.843-05:00

I managed to catch the ending of the skills challenge where Steve Nash beat out Earl Boykins for the win, then proceeded to watch the 3 point challenge as well as the slam dunk contest. The 3 point contest wasn't too much fun to watch; nobody broke the 20 point mark at all, and many of the shots seem to clank of the back iron... maybe there's something wrong with that rim, or maybe it just wasn't

Darrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15664816876139542568noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5150703.post-1108646689881376602005-02-17T08:17:00.000-05:002005-02-17T08:25:24.700-05:00

I'm not really a big hockey fan, and I hate it when the sports pages contain 4 pages of NHL negotiations and news while having only 1 page of NBA news. I guess that's what you get for living in a hockey crazed town. I mean, don't newspapers have better basketball analysts that could post more than 1 page's worth of information?Hockey never really grew on me, even though the first year I was here,

Darrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15664816876139542568noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5150703.post-1108491390598989682005-02-15T13:15:00.000-05:002005-02-15T13:16:30.600-05:00

If you need to manage SQL Server / MSDE databases, and don't have enterprise manager, try this web based tool that pretty much allows you to do most common things: Web Data Administrator.

Darrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15664816876139542568noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5150703.post-1108491289671672782005-02-15T12:54:00.000-05:002005-02-15T14:34:30.426-05:00

Phew, my computer is finally back up after being out of commission since last Tuesday. I never imagined the problems that came up relating to getting my machine back up and running. Normally, on other computers, getting a PC up and running takes me about 2 to 3 hours plus minus for applications. This install actually took me 2 days to get running properly.The problem started with the W2K image

Darrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15664816876139542568noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5150703.post-1108131408874178372005-02-11T08:58:00.000-05:002005-02-11T09:17:46.233-05:00

Another friend of mine recently joined the blogging world, his name is Kurnia Angsana, but we all call him Cun-Cun. He asked me a question about how I came about deciding on my future plans. Well, thanks to that question, I responded with this email (partially edited), which contains some of my thought process and reasons:" ...How I came about finding out my current career & why not something

Darrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15664816876139542568noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5150703.post-1107982517715591122005-02-09T15:46:00.000-05:002005-02-09T15:55:17.716-05:00

Google has released a beta of their mapping technology. I've just tried it out, and it looks pretty cool. You can drag around the map, zoom in up to street level, and when it does find directions to and from a place, each line of direction can be clicked on, and the map will highlight and zoom into the corner/street you have to travel. It finds some places, but some places still don't show up

Darrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15664816876139542568noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5150703.post-1107889012120297282005-02-08T13:41:00.000-05:002005-02-08T14:05:16.653-05:00

This morning, I came in at 8, ready to get some work done before meeting some clients at 9. When I sat down at my desk, words to this effect greeted me on my computer screen: "Disk read error, press Ctrl-Alt-Del to restart"Boy, this sure looked like the beginning of a bad day. So I did what it asked me to and restarted... a couple of times, and it still came up with that message. Apparently my

Darrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15664816876139542568noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5150703.post-1107809747343178622005-02-07T15:40:00.000-05:002005-02-07T17:38:43.643-05:00

I'm not an engineering grad, I'm actually a Computer Science grad, so I don't have these rings that all the engineering graduates have. Two of my best budies whom we shall call W and P, are actually engineering graduates, and I've recently encountered some funny things related to these rings, that brings up my engineering ring conspiracy theory. Last week, W went to buy the ring. I asked him why

Darrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15664816876139542568noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5150703.post-1107649506407621312005-02-05T19:23:00.000-05:002005-02-05T19:25:06.406-05:00

I guess GMail will soon be rolled out to public, based on what's going on around. It seems like many people have 50 invites to spread out now. So, feel free to contact me if anyone doesn't have GMail yet and you want it. I just ask you to post a comment, and link to my blog from your site if you have one.

Darrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15664816876139542568noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5150703.post-1107648894741161562005-02-05T19:10:00.000-05:002005-02-05T19:14:54.746-05:00

Today we went snow tubing at Snow Valley. I've never gone snow tubing before, and it was really fun. You get to ride a big wheel and slide down on slopes at speeds up to 80 km/h. Left home at around 8.45 AM and got there just before 10. We had until 12 to go on the rides, so I went first while my wife played with my son on the kids area with mini-slides. The lineups were very long, and I could

Darrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15664816876139542568noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5150703.post-1107550764432109652005-02-04T15:26:00.000-05:002005-02-04T17:47:08.556-05:00

When I first heard of the word 'blog', it was in 2003, and at the time I had no idea what it was. Somehow in my mind, it registered as 'blob', which of course is short for 'big large object' - a data type for certain databases. It wasn't until I asked someone about this new term that I found out that it was short for web-log. Now my first thought was, "Oh well, this is just like an online diary

Darrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15664816876139542568noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5150703.post-1107547406333250402005-02-04T15:00:00.000-05:002005-02-04T15:03:26.333-05:00

I've decided to look around for some templates that look good, and I found one at Blogger Templates. Just wanted to let people know, because the site really has some wonderful looking templates.

Darrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15664816876139542568noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5150703.post-1107525496395695932005-02-04T08:56:00.000-05:002005-02-04T08:58:16.396-05:00

Woohoo !!! I have a Page Rank of 1 :) I wonder how this could happen? Does that actually mean there are people who read my blog and link here? Hehe, only I could get excited over a PR of 1.

Darrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15664816876139542568noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5150703.post-1107488596133289132005-02-03T22:39:00.000-05:002005-02-03T22:43:40.466-05:00

Hey everyone, I've got 12 GMail invites available. I'll give them to anyone who wants them on a first come first serve basis. I just ask that you link to my blog from your site if you have one. Otherwise, just post a comment here (don't forget to include the email address you want it sent to) and I'll send one to you. Why am I doing this? Well, I'm trying to increase traffic to this blog (don't

Darrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15664816876139542568noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5150703.post-1107487681064668212005-02-03T19:10:00.000-05:002005-02-03T22:28:01.063-05:00

*** WARNING *** Korean / Taiwanese TV drama's are very addictive, don't say I didn't warn you if you watch one and get hooked on them :) *** /END WARNING *** I started watching a lot of these during my job searching days last year. My wife's grandmother had some, our friends had some, and we watched and watched. Right now we have a couple more series that we're watching, and I'm just baffled

Darrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15664816876139542568noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5150703.post-1107475762166092122005-02-03T19:04:00.000-05:002005-02-03T19:09:22.166-05:00

Argh... I didn't feel well at all today. Since last night, I've had this headache bugging me. When I woke up in the morning and went to work, it subsided a bit, but when I got to work it came back. It didn't help much that I spent most of today in the server room, where the cold air was blowing in our faces. I had to wear my jacket and put on the hood in there, must've looked like a fool to

Darrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15664816876139542568noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5150703.post-1107464167591948612005-02-03T15:37:00.000-05:002005-02-03T15:56:07.593-05:00

Well well well, my friends who are blogging just grew by 1. Check out Henry's (Wen2 as we call him) blog at http://hhartono.blogspot.com . It's kinda cool to be able to influence someone to join a trend, just as I originally tried out blogging after seeing my former manager blog. Hopefully these blogs will grow up to form a community of some sort, and then it's time for us to take over the world

Darrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15664816876139542568noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5150703.post-1107353531700426462005-02-02T08:42:00.000-05:002005-02-02T09:45:06.666-05:00

In a galaxy far-far away, this incident happened: A web application was needed and created for a certain department. It was supposed to be up an running within a year. The application still was not running after 2 years..., and a certain developer who shall remain nameless, inherited the application for completion. The developer was baffled when he looked at the application. He had a couple of

Darrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15664816876139542568noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5150703.post-1107297785659368192005-02-01T17:38:00.000-05:002005-02-01T17:43:05.660-05:00

I never really liked coffee before, never believed it when people said coffee would be addicting. So one day, I was strolling thru the mall, and innocently purchased a white mocca at Second Cup. "Hey, this doesn't taste half bad", I thought to myself and then thought nothing more. Well, a month later, I'm buying white mocca's at Starbucks, Second Cup, and wherever else I can find one. What has

Darrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15664816876139542568noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5150703.post-1107289585357750902005-02-01T15:23:00.000-05:002005-02-01T15:40:42.373-05:00

I downloaded Firefox at work a couple of days ago, and guess what? Good bye IE ! Seriously, it loads pages faster, has lots of cool features like the Live bookmarks for RSS feeds, tabbed browsing (no more clutter on my taskbar from too many open browsers, yay!!!), and lots more extensions. Don't know why it took that long for me to give it a try, but great thing I did. There's just a couple of

Darrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15664816876139542568noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5150703.post-1107289176435853872005-02-01T15:17:00.000-05:002005-02-01T15:50:15.066-05:00

Oh wow, nothing like finding out from searching something completely unrelated, that your own brother is blogging :) . He never told me, and I never thought my brother would have a blog. The funny thing is, I was actually searching something at technorati (I think it was Raptors - Heat or something...) and found his post about the game. To my surprise, there were Indonesian words in there, and

Darrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15664816876139542568noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5150703.post-1107289009500664942005-02-01T15:08:00.000-05:002005-02-01T15:16:49.500-05:00

For the last week or so, I've been learning to type with the dvorak layout. Mainly because it's supposed to save your wrists a couple of miles worth of typing every day (http://www.theworldofstuff.com/dvorak/). "Less Finger Travel: Because of the arrangement of the keys, the Dvorak keyboard requires less finger travel. It has been estimated that a QWERTY typist's fingers travel 16-20 miles a

Darrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15664816876139542568noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5150703.post-1104327014823631172004-12-29T08:29:00.000-05:002004-12-29T08:30:14.823-05:00

I added my site feed to the side bar if anybody's interested. http://darrick.blogspot.com/atom.xml

Darrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15664816876139542568noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5150703.post-1104326415368130992004-12-29T08:17:00.000-05:002004-12-29T08:20:15.366-05:00

Got to the office at 8.00 AM after having 5 days off (sick on Friday, Sat, Sun, 2 days off Monday & Tuesday for Christmas & Boxing day replacement). The whole floor was empty, no lights and deafly silent. Did they call of the last 3 working days of the year and forget to tell me? Ah well, I think it'll be a slow day today. Update: 8.20 AM and some people are in the office, so I guess it's still

Darrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15664816876139542568noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5150703.post-1104020632607012852004-12-25T19:23:00.000-05:002004-12-25T19:23:52.606-05:00

Merry Christmas everyone, hope you have a blessed and joyful day !

Darrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15664816876139542568noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5150703.post-1104020477209524012004-12-25T19:07:00.000-05:002004-12-25T19:21:17.210-05:00

On Thursday night, I was driving on the 401 going to Church for music practice. This was after a whole day of snow, and freezing raing, so the road conditions were pretty bad. Well, little did I know I was going to get quite a scare. Just before entering the 400, there is a bit of a slope on the 401. Now usually, going at about 100K/hr, I have no problems at all. But this day, the road was

Darrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15664816876139542568noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5150703.post-1103831570479888102004-12-23T14:35:00.000-05:002004-12-23T14:54:40.536-05:00

Last Friday, about 3:50 pm, just I was packing up and getting ready to leave the office, I happened to be browsing http://www.realgm.com/boards. In one of the threads, there was a post about VC going to New Jersey. Before this, there has been no rumour whatsoever about VC going to NJ, tt was always Portland, New York or New Orleans. So imagine my surprise when I opened up the thread and read

Darrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15664816876139542568noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5150703.post-1103830466169970882004-12-23T14:26:00.000-05:002004-12-23T14:34:26.170-05:00

I've recently looked into a multi level marketing (MLM) opportunity. Of course I realize that there are lots of scams out there that will just sap my money, but on the other hand I also believe that there are some of these kinds of businesses that are legitimate. This particular one seems quite different from the others. I'd still have to sell products and gain downlines, but in this case

Darrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15664816876139542568noreply@blogger.com44tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5150703.post-1099001930551485932004-10-28T18:15:00.000-04:002004-10-28T18:18:50.553-04:00

Arrrgghh... I just needed a place to vent my frustration. I've been getting some job opportunities from recruiting agencies the last few weeks. Today, I found out that there's this job that seems to be the perfect fit for me. It's a full time job, good security, better pay, very close to home etc, etc. And yet, it required the person to start immediately, which I can't do because I'll be going to

Darrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15664816876139542568noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5150703.post-1095286899078099602004-09-15T17:58:00.000-04:002004-09-15T18:23:28.413-04:00

For the last couple of months, in my mind, there's a crossroad ahead of me. Mainly because my wife and son will be going back to Indonesia for 2 months, and it's bugging me how I'm gonna miss them. This had me thinking about life, what I wanted to do, how I wanted to go through it. Of course, I'm thankful for my job right now, and it's quite interesting, but it doesn't allow me the flexibility

Darrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15664816876139542568noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5150703.post-1095285491649889342004-09-15T17:52:00.000-04:002004-09-15T17:58:11.650-04:00

Well, I've got my internet phone service running now. For the week or so I've been using it, it seems to be of good quality. Just as good as a normal phone service. The only drawback to this is that I have to connect my phone at the location of my gateway, which of course is connected to wherever my broadband connection comes from. Luckily for us, we have a cordless phone and live in a condo, so

Darrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15664816876139542568noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5150703.post-1092415877683654512004-08-13T12:33:00.000-04:002004-08-13T12:53:34.496-04:00

So for the last week or so, I've had to deal with lots of customer service people regarding address changes. They call themselves different things, business operations associate, owner, etc, but in function, they are performing customer service. With Bell, as everyone knows from my 2 previous posts, I've encountered really bad customer service. They keep telling me one thing, but don't show

Darrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15664816876139542568noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5150703.post-1092328127691893432004-08-12T12:12:00.000-04:002004-08-12T12:28:47.690-04:00

OK, to continue my rant from the previous post, here's a rant about Bell and some movers. The next day after we got stood up by the Bell technician and mattress movers, I called Bell in the morning. (Note: My wife called last week to add my name to the account and give them our contact number while we don't have a phone). The customer service officer apologizes and says that it's apparently been

Darrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15664816876139542568noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5150703.post-1092327105348406462004-08-12T12:04:00.000-04:002004-08-12T12:29:46.496-04:00

Phew, that was a long absence from blogging. Well, to summarize, I'm attaching an email I sent to a couple of buddies yesterday regarding our move from house to condo. It pretty much sums up what's been going on the last few weeks, packing, getting ready to move, and on d-day ... read for yourself :) - On Monday, our lawyer said that by 10.am Tuesday, our keys should have been released (ie,

Darrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15664816876139542568noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5150703.post-1089939292486866422004-07-15T20:27:00.000-04:002004-07-15T20:54:52.486-04:00

Whew, a tiring weekend last week was, and yet it was quite interesting. At work, last week was pretty good; I managed to talk to a couple of people regarding .NET development projects. I also am working on a Cognos Impromptu project for a client. He's seen the prototype and says that he's impressed with it. So, I'm learning new things as I go, and am starting to enjoy my work even more now. The

Darrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15664816876139542568noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5150703.post-1089139090943637512004-07-06T14:37:00.000-04:002004-07-06T14:38:10.943-04:00

Argh.. what's up with the weather in Toronto? 2 days ago it was hot, yesterday was cold, and today it's hot again? No wonder people get sick so easily with a climate like this. I was fine when I woke up yesterday, then went to the train station, parked and walked to the train. It was quite chilly and I didn't have a jacket on. When I got on the train, I started getting a stuffy nose and sneezing

Darrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15664816876139542568noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5150703.post-1089114153789580752004-07-06T07:42:00.000-04:002004-07-06T07:42:33.800-04:00

We finally sold the house, after a few weeks on the market. The price was on the lower end of the market for this area, but considering we don't want any other hassles, it's an OK deal. Now off to deal with the lawyers, fun fun fun :) But it'd be great to finally move in to our new condominium. My wife went for an inspection last week, and found it to be quite small. It'll take some getting used

Darrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15664816876139542568noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5150703.post-1088731473537634752004-07-01T21:17:00.000-04:002004-07-01T21:25:11.376-04:00

Ok, due to a spur of the moment, I actually went to Ebay and bought myself 5 invites to Google's Gmail. After trying it for a bit, I find that it still has some delays here and there when performing operations, but it looks that it has lots of interesting features, like the conversations, labels and stars. I'm still gonna keep trying out the different features, but it looks good so far. On

Darrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15664816876139542568noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5150703.post-1088716043843314282004-07-01T16:58:00.000-04:002004-07-01T17:07:23.843-04:00

I went to an orientation yesterday, specific to the people who were accepted to the I&IT (Information & Information Technology) stream. The first speaker of the day was actually the CIO of Ontario, Greg Georgeff, which was kinda cool. After all, how many CIO's of large corporations take their time to meet and talk to the new recruits? He seemed like a visionary, and knows where he's taking the IT

Darrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15664816876139542568noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5150703.post-1088220135854242132004-06-25T23:07:00.000-04:002004-06-25T23:22:45.026-04:00

During my orientation program, we did quite a bit of networking. I've always heard about the power and effectiveness of networking in developing a career. I just want to emphasize how true that is, even though it's really hard for some of us to do. I find myself feeling very estranged and alone during these events :). So here are some of the things I do during meetings / conferences to start

Darrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15664816876139542568noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5150703.post-1088219046782663082004-06-25T22:52:00.000-04:002004-06-25T23:05:32.023-04:00

Yesterday was quite an interesting day for the Raptors. I'm not really an expert on these college players or international players that have entered the NBA Draft, but I do generally keep track of discussion boards and know who the top players are. Well, I know that by the 6th pick, all of 3 our first options were gone (point guards). I was expecting at least one of them to fall down to 8th spot

Darrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15664816876139542568noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5150703.post-1088218348125215412004-06-25T22:50:00.000-04:002004-06-25T22:52:28.126-04:00

Wow! 3 weeks on the market and still no offers. Houses have been popping up for sale all around us, and have been sold already. This one house came on the market less than 2 weeks ago, and it's already been sold. Our agent has indicated that he thinks it's almost time to lower the price (we did mark it up quite a bit), and try to get the best offer. Anybody want a house? :)

Darrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15664816876139542568noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5150703.post-108821808573607822004-06-25T22:31:00.000-04:002004-06-25T22:48:05.736-04:00

It's been awhile since I last posted, mainly due to the fact that I've still not gotten used to working :). When I get home everyday, I try to spend as much time as possible with my wife and kid, and after that, there's not really much energy left to do anything else. I've been at work for 2 weeks now (minus 2 days of orientation to my program), and I've mostly completed one small project. It's

Darrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15664816876139542568noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5150703.post-1087859880935821432004-06-21T19:13:00.000-04:002004-06-21T19:18:00.936-04:00

Ever been interested in reading a magazine by bloggers and for bloggers? Check out The Bloggist, a site pioneered by Jeremy Wright. Jeremy's asking people for opinions and suggestions, and in the near future get a magazine published. So go on and take a look.

Darrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15664816876139542568noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5150703.post-1087346758423180512004-06-15T20:30:00.000-04:002004-06-15T20:45:58.423-04:00

Well, I started work yesterday. Got to my office at 9 a.m. and just as I was trying to call in my manager to get me to open the door, my mentor steps out of the lift. He then showed me around the place, introduced me to my manager and told me a bit about what I had to do. He couldn't show me much at the beginning, since all the data was highly confidential, and I needed to be sworn in first

Darrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15664816876139542568noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5150703.post-1087093219336434202004-06-12T22:13:00.000-04:002004-06-12T22:20:19.336-04:00

I'm a freelance translator / interpreter with 2 Toronto agencies. I have been doing it for a couple of years now, and even though it's not a full time income, it's pretty good pay when there are jobs. The one agency I'm with (All Languages) is a great agency to freelance with, and I get most of my assignments from them. The other one (I won't mention them here because it's gonna reflect quite

Darrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15664816876139542568noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5150703.post-1086826214177030542004-06-09T20:06:00.000-04:002004-06-09T20:10:14.176-04:00

I was just browsing weblogs.asp.net and found this link to Spymac.com, which provides free 1Gb email, 100 Megs of web space and lots more. So if you need an email account that gives you lots of space, drop by there and register.

Darrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15664816876139542568noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5150703.post-1086804647871384682004-06-09T14:10:00.001-04:002004-06-09T14:22:32.390-04:00

Holy crap !!! My car insurance broker just emailed me, saying that my premium which was at a ridiculous $313 a month would have to go up to $477 with the same company. He found me another one at $350. I'm just venting here, but what the heck is going on with car insurance in Ontario? The government said that the rates were supposed to go down all over the place, and this is what happens to

Darrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15664816876139542568noreply@blogger.com22tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5150703.post-1086726659087181892004-06-08T16:29:00.000-04:002004-06-08T16:30:59.086-04:00

Well, our house is officially on the market. If anyone is interested or knows anybody who'd be interested in buying a house in Mississauga, ON - Canada, please let me know. We put it on the listing through an agent yesterday, and already a couple of people seem interested. So, hopefully it'll be a quick sell.

Darrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15664816876139542568noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5150703.post-1086566923862209192004-06-06T19:56:00.000-04:002004-06-06T21:15:20.346-04:00

I received a letter in the mail from York University last Friday. It's basically a letter to graduates of the Comp Sci program, asking us to put our records online and also to put in comments on how the program has impacted our lives after university. Well, to be honest, I didn't really benefit from a York degree. Most of the stuff I learnt (humanities, social sciences etc.) were pretty useless.

Darrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15664816876139542568noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5150703.post-1086559868082333422004-06-06T17:52:00.000-04:002004-06-06T18:11:08.083-04:00

I've been trying to install dotText, a .NET based blogging tool created by Scott Watermasysk. I found it easy to install on my own computer for testing, but impossible to configure on my web hosting provider. Not sure what I'm doing wrong at all, I've used the same web.config as on my machine (with server values changed of course), and yet dotText refuses to work. I've posted my problem here.

Darrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15664816876139542568noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5150703.post-1086558512142487402004-06-06T17:47:00.000-04:002004-06-06T17:48:32.143-04:00

Oh wow, that was one hectic week. We had to move out of the house while it was being painted for a couple of days, and when all was clear, had to clean up a huge mess and put back all the furniture and stuff. That took a lot out of me. Probably the only time I'd ever paint where I live as long as I live.

Darrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15664816876139542568noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5150703.post-1086126189852202412004-06-01T17:43:00.000-04:002004-06-01T17:44:11.373-04:00

Ahahahah... this is sooo funny. I read the User Friendly Comic Strip every day. The comic strips are hillarious. Today's made me laugh quite a bit :) June 1 2004 Comic Strip - The Daily Static

Darrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15664816876139542568noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5150703.post-1086026750968379402004-05-31T14:03:00.000-04:002004-05-31T14:05:50.966-04:00

Haven't posted anything for a couple of days, and there's a good reason for that. I've had to do some house cleaning. Emptied the shed and basement storage, and it took us 2 full days just throwing away junk. I just couldn't believe that much junk could fit in such small storage space. Anyway, that's the hard work done, now the painters are in the house. Hopefully by the end of the week, the

Darrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15664816876139542568noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5150703.post-1085713290277185242004-05-27T23:00:00.000-04:002004-05-27T23:01:30.276-04:00

Well, here's the job description for my new position. This is going to be very interesting and exciting, as it allows me to improve my skills in .NET as well as learn something new in Cognos. Assignment Purpose: The Technology Solutions Branch (MCSCS) seeks a team player to help in business/systems analysis. You will: design/develop/maintain reporting frameworks based on business intelligence

Darrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15664816876139542568noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5150703.post-1085626063250438322004-05-26T22:38:00.000-04:002004-05-26T22:51:01.193-04:00

Well, I tried out Friendster today. I already had an account from a couple of months ago, but just never had the interest to do anything with it until now. Anyway, I spent some time hanging around, finding old friends, current friends and putting up my profile. I know this is still a beta version, so it might not be perfect, but there are quite alot of annoyances, for example: - When I tried to

Darrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15664816876139542568noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5150703.post-1085585495436315652004-05-26T11:21:00.000-04:002004-05-26T11:31:35.436-04:00

I have just had an interesting experience with a painter that came over to give me a quote on painting the whole house (We're trying to sell the house). There were a couple of other guys who I called over to do the same thing before and after him, so I pretty much knew the average price for the service. This guy came in, and was completely different from the other guys. He gave me a quote at 1/3

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