This is what happen..!

Why the iPad Is My New Laptop

Fri, 04 May 2012 08:33:22 -0400

As I said, more and more people are using an iPad as a computer. Some people are more extreme than the other. This post is quite balance, he can’t do everything, but the iPad seems more practicle in many situation.

More people "switching" to an iPad

Fri, 20 Apr 2012 15:16:17 -0400

More people "switching" to an iPad:

More and more people are switching to an iPad only world. Hello post-pc era!

Yield Thought: I swapped my MacBook for an iPad+Linode

Fri, 23 Mar 2012 14:15:39 -0400

Yield Thought: I swapped my MacBook for an iPad+Linode:

Wow, this is almost what I’ve imagined. Using an iPad taken to the extreme. Seems to work great for that guy.

yieldthought:

On September 19th, I said goodbye to my trusty MacBook Pro and started developing exclusively on an iPad + Linode 512. This is the surprising story of a month spent working in the cloud.

It all started when I bought my first MacBook a couple of years ago. Frustrated by the inconsistent…

jasonSeney();: Open, Edit & Save Encrypted Files with Vim and GPG

Fri, 23 Mar 2012 13:58:12 -0400

jasonSeney();: Open, Edit & Save Encrypted Files with Vim and GPG :

A really nice way to encrypt a simple text file on the fly.

jasonseney:

If you’ve ever want to save sensitive text on your computer - encrypting it is the only way to ensure it is secure. Using vim and gpg we can open, edit, and save only the encrypted file and leave nothing in plain text on the hard drive.

Note: In order to run gpg on OS X, you’ll need to first…

On the last day notes...

Fri, 09 Mar 2012 09:57:38 -0500

I’ve come to realized that I’m a bitchy bastard. And I would certainly unfollow myself or others from Twitter or any other social network for less than what I’ve wrote.

So, in the future, if I don’t have anything good or nice to say, I shouldn’t write it online.

I just need to remember this. That is all.

My Bell DSL adventure

Tue, 06 Mar 2012 17:07:00 -0500

You’re always satisfied until you experience a problem with a paying service. I had great internet service and nice speed.

That’s until yesterday midnight… While watching Netflix, everything stopped, my DSL line was dead. Went downstair, checked my modem, like WTF? Seemed ok, did a reset. My internet connection never came back. I got a solid DSL light, but no internet light. That only means one thing, PPPoE did not work.

So I took my cell phone, called them, diagnosed with the level 1 tech, nothing, he needs to open a ticket with a level 2. Great, when will I get news of this? Dont’t know, they may call you if they need to work things out with you. Fine, when will that be? Don’t know… Anyway, it’s past midnight, I’m going to bed…

Next morning, this morning, my internet is still no where to be found. Great, called Bell support again… Talk to a lady, I can only recall her telling me that I have a ticket with level 2 open and I need to wait… How long I asked? She told me that this could take 48hrs. F*ck!

So I vented on Twitter… A nice guy from Bell Social Media contacted me and ask that I should email him and see if they could help. Great, they finally called me 16hrs after opening my first trouble ticket at midnight. Talk to an other level 1 tech, got transfered to level 2, they’ve checked my line, found some kind of a problem and got an other ticket, this time for a tech to come to my place and fix my line outside my house. When will that happen? Well the sooner they can come is tomorrow after noon from 12h to 17h. Great! an other 20 or so hours to wait for them to fix my problem.

I was so pissed when they told me it could take 48hrs, behold, it’s becoming true. I just hope that they’ll get it fix tomorrow. Or I’ll have to find an other internet provider. Crap!

I’ll update this post as it moves on.

UPDATE #1: Well the tech came to my house, I wasn’t there so he didn’t want to work on my problem at all. I don’t need to tell you how upset that made me.

UPDATE #2: Came home and called to get an other appointment, didn’t trust that tech as he was bitchy and didn’t want to give me any service. Got an other appointment for Friday morning, this was the best I could get. Took me at least 30 minutes to talk to someone that could take my appointment, first tech wanted to do some debugging while this has been already done and diagnosed.

UPDATE #3: Got a call the same evening as my last call for an appointment. A tech who was working on a neighbors problem saw that my port on their equipment was dead. He switched my connection and hold and behold, everything was back working. Total time on the phone with this nice tech who out of the blue help a client in need (that’s me) 10 minutes. Just to prove that the first tech could have corrected my problem if he had only looked at their equipment for 5 minutes instead of calling me and bitching that I wasn’t home for at least 15-20 minutes.

UPDATE #4: Tried to make a formal complain about this tech. People at Bell working on Twitter are really nice. They gave me a credit and tried for 2 hours to find out who he was. (tech) I should get a call from his manager. I hope they’ll give him coaching as he was really bad in the service department.

All in all, I’m pleased. If I wouldn’t have to deal with that bitchy tech, My week would have gone better. At least now, with all the nice people that I met at Bell I still have faith in them. Good thing, because I’ve left service providers for less problem than this.

Pretty nice way to recharge your iPhone / iPod, from Bluelounge.

Fri, 06 Jan 2012 15:04:40 -0500

Pretty nice way to recharge your iPhone / iPod, from Bluelounge.

Social Networks, should I or should I not?

Fri, 06 Jan 2012 14:33:00 -0500

I know peoples who don’t use social networks at all. They like their identity or life to be private. That’s their own thing, every one has their own opinion about what’s good to say or tell and what’s good to use or not.

I myself fully embrace social networks. Well I do to some extend. All the information I post there are normally public stuff. I sometime put my personal phone number. As I don’t really care because it’s publicly available from my phone company website. I say some stuff that I find interesting, that could probably be of some interest to some people. If I have something private, I normally just don’t write it on the web. That’s it. Plain and simple as that.

Some social networks helps me a lot. Some of those helps me find working contract. Some helps me stay in touch with people, others, I’m just a peep who find what other people are saying interesting. It’s all a mater of context.

But one thing I find quite important, I do register on every social networks that I can for one simple reason. I put flags, just like the United States did on the moon. I register an account, it might be dormant as I have no use for this network. But one thing is for sure, this account is mine and nobody can claim it. Nobody can create an account with my public infos and say that they are the real me.

That’s it plain and simple, I make sure that my presence is personally taken care of. I make sure that someone can’t go ahead and pass as myself to my friends and family.

I protect my online personality. (well that’s what I think I’m doing, as always, I might be wrong)

Things you should know...

Thu, 05 Jan 2012 13:30:00 -0500

I know them, but I still have trouble with them. I do get burn by them once in a while. That said, here are some rules of work / life. I may edit this post once in a while if I find something else that I need to learn or know.

This kind of list or post is some kind of popular on the Internet at the moment. I’m writing this for myself. You may find them interesting or not.

1 - Don’t f*ck with company equipments.

This means, don’t use company equipment for your own use. Don’t install anything, don’t go onto personal websites, don’t install software that might get you in trouble, you may think it won’t, but it can always be used against you. I personally know this.

Someone said to me, it’s not because you can that you should.

Get a nice intelligent cellphone, get a data plan, use it to get your email, use it to browse to some website that may or may not be in the company interest or approved. Don’t waste your time on your cellphone, but it can really be handy. Take a break from work, eat lunch alone and then you can use all that time on personal task.

2 - Wait at least a year to get fully involved with your new company perks.

You never know what can happen. 7 months isn’t long enough, take a full year to look a your options. Sometime, going back may cost a lot and may take time.I’ve tested this twice. Got almost in trouble twice, had to work hard to get back to a personal state once and lost some precious time the other time.

3 - Don’t use a company cellphone as your own.

This is true even if they don’t mind at the beginning or they tell you that you can. They can always change their mind. This happen to me once and it goes back to rule #1. Don’t use company equipment as your own.

4 - Not everything about yourself or about stuff from work is good to tell.

You never know how it will be interpreted and it may well be use against you. Take time to think everything through.

5 - People with who you work are not your friends.

Even if they seem to, you only need to be friendly in a work environment. Work people becomes friends when you see each other outside of work. Take time to evaluate the situation and find out if they are truly friends. (hard to do)

6 - People come and go in your life time.

I think we meet interesting people every day, we make friends and they are with you for a journey that can last from a simple week to years. Take whatever you need from those relation. They do the same with you. Don’t be mad if they go, you had a great time, that is all, savour this time.

7 - Don’t give too much time to people who suck your life out.

Once in a while we meet people that just plain suck your life and get you down. We don’t have enough time in our life to dedicate some to them. Let them go, it will always be better this way. One exception, family, you don’t chose them. Your only option is to see the problematic one only once in a while, that is as much as you can take.

8 - Don’t let uncontrollable sh*t get you down.

It’s uncontrollable, don’t waste your time with it. Concentrate your energy on the things you control, like getting out of this bad mojo. They say, it’s not how you got down, but how you get back up that’s important. Remember this bs quote! ;-) There is some truth to it.

9 - Follow your felling and don’t regret anything.

It’s not when you’re on your death bed that you’ll be able to do those things. Get out there, don’t look back! ;-) I had someone close who died. He told me that he never regretted any thing he’d done. That’s great! I wish I’ll be able to say the same.

10 - Don’t waste your health.

You only have one. Take care of it. That’s what I’ll be giving the most attention from now on. That’s probably the hardest thing.

Leaving 2011 behind and welcoming 2012

Sun, 01 Jan 2012 21:40:25 -0500

I’ve read my last year resolution and I’ve done none of them. This is really too bad.

2011 wasn’t what I could say a good year. I was working for myself, had an easy gig and it was prematurely ended by the contractor. They found someone to take the job full time on their payroll. I can’t blame them, but that got me into finding a new job.

Got the best job that I could’ve wish for and kind of blowed that one. Well I got bitten (way more correct to say) by people that I trusted. I just hope that this was some kind of a lesson that I needed to learn. For the record, we’ll meet again and tables will turn.

And that’s how I entered December.

I also wasn’t myself. A lot a things happened and I wasn’t happy as I should have been. This didn’t help my temper and it had a bad overcast on my family life.

But the year did end on a good note. I found a new gig. I’ll be again, working for myself in 2012. I’ve found a contract starting January 9.

Now looking back at myself, I haven’t been too great. I’ve lost some weight and gained almost all of it back. Started eating slow carb, stop eating junk food, worked on my health but stop almost everything beginning working at my last job. I’m kind of back to square one.

So this time around, let’s begin on the right track. I need to clear me mind, find the best in every situation. Don’t try to arrange anything, ride the wave cause sometime, it knows exactly where to go and how to get there.

This year, I’ll eat the best as I never eaten. That way, I’ll be more healthy. I’ll need to clear my mind. It should come as I clear my body.

The rest should come as I begin this new journey.

I welcome you 2012. Let’s make this year the best since 2009. Because, the last 2 years took a toll on my life and now that I see all of this I can finally take care of it.

Skyventure on Flickr.Went to SkyVenture today. Epic!

Wed, 27 Apr 2011 18:12:31 -0400

Skyventure on Flickr.

Went to SkyVenture today. Epic!

iPhoneTracker on Flickr.This is the gps data taken from my...

Thu, 21 Apr 2011 21:18:35 -0400

iPhoneTracker on Flickr.

This is the gps data taken from my iPhone with iPhone Tracker.

I don’t have anything to hide and I don’t really care. I use Google Latitude with my friends. This isn’t realtime, so what the heck.

I would definitely try this! My liver wouldn’t be too...

Fri, 01 Apr 2011 10:05:33 -0400

I would definitely try this! My liver wouldn’t be too happy.

"I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody. - Bill Cosby"

Tue, 22 Mar 2011 13:52:06 -0400

“I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody. - Bill Cosby”

- This is so true in every ways.

StarWars posters

Mon, 14 Mar 2011 09:43:28 -0400

I think these posters are amazing..! I need to find myself one.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/danbenjamin/5310213787/in/pool-1409141@N23/

Pretty cool way to explain StarWars. The Fastest and Funniest...

Sat, 05 Mar 2011 16:49:20 -0500

Pretty cool way to explain StarWars.

The Fastest and Funniest LEGO Star Wars story ever told

"You change for two reasons: Either you learn enough that you want to, or you’ve been hurt..."

Thu, 03 Mar 2011 12:34:58 -0500

“You change for two reasons: Either you learn enough that you want to, or you’ve been hurt enough that you have to.”

- ~Unknown

So true…

WHERE WOULD YOU MOST LIKE TO VISIT ON YOUR PLANET?

Thu, 24 Feb 2011 08:55:32 -0500

Thailand or Panama would be next on my list.

Pogoplug #fail

Tue, 22 Feb 2011 18:42:00 -0500

So I got this Pogoplug in November. I haven’t used it much since then. First of all, I had trouble using it on my network. I got 2 internet connection and different computers on my network uses either one of them. So there is half my network that connect directly to my Pogoplug while the other half connect trough the net.

This is the first #fail. As If I can’t use it from anywhere on my network, I won’t be using it at all.

And now, cool thing, you can connect a printer to the Pogoplug. Nice! But this printer has to be a HP or Epson printer… So much for my Sansung Laser Color printer. And a second thing, you can only print from email sent to the Pogoplug or using the web page to print a file hosted on the device. This is the second #fail.

I seriously don’t know what I’ll be doing with my Pogoplug. It’s not at all practicle at the moment.

Too bad, it was a nice product.

Went karting, crashed..! Taken with my GoProHD.

Tue, 22 Feb 2011 18:31:00 -0500

Went karting, crashed..! Taken with my GoProHD.