Cole's Notes - The Sunday Journalist

Yellowpages Okay - here's the map to Koko's Sports Bar - good dinner, darts, pool and big screen TV. The front bar is a bit scrongy - but the backroom is large and fully outfitted.

My Daily Horoscope : "Libra September 22 - October 22 Are you an artist, writer or musician, dear Libra? If so, you might find your work taking on more of a symbolic or impressionistic tone. Today you're probably more interested in conveying feelings and impressions than detail. In fact, it might surprise you that you're thinking along those lines. This urge may vanish by tomorrow, so if you like today's work, make the most of it. And try to remember how and why you're doing it!" creativecommons.org Could be this becomes the outlet for a lot of the stuff I'm creating. I haven't been posting my artwork on-line, since I'm not into spending a lot of time maintaining ANOTHER web-site, but it would be a good way to get the art photos and my media experiments seen by a larger audience. However, like most artists - I create for my own needs - appealing to a larger audience - Isn't really my thing. It's secondary, but it would perhaps m...

Wallpapers - Calgary Of course - I shouldn't mention FREE wallpapers withour mentioning the Calgary Plus Website. After all, I DO work at Bell.

HGTV :: eTools :: Handy Helpers I know - it's still snowing outside - but at least it can be spring on your PC. And they're free - you know how I love free!

I still do a lot of unofficial consulting on PC support, and folks have asked me for the Cole's Notes version of what basic software they need to surf safely and keep their machine running in top form. So - for hardware - I remember a article from HP about spring cleaning for the hard drive which summarizes the best tweaking for a Windows based machine. HP Hard drive maintenance basics Spring cleaning time for your hard drive. Not such a bad idea. I've always maintained all my machines by running DEFRAG and Disk Cleanup on a monthly basis and CHKDSK, anti-virus and Spyware removal on a weekly basis. Being a belt and suspenders type of IT guy - I use Ad-ware and Spybot Search and Destroy to get rid of the offending stuff. It's incredible the amount of faldercarb browsers pick up from advertising. So I use some free software to keep things up to date. First off - Ad-aware - it can be downloaded from Download.com or get the current copy of Ad-aware www.. ...

Slashdot: News for nerds, stuff that matters : "The computer should be doing the hard work. That's what it's paid to do, after all. -- Larry Wall in "

Network Card Theft Causes Internet Outage Here's the orginal eWeek story. They don't mention the loss of some customers VoIP services as well - but one of the folks in the office of the company posted his comments to Slashdot.org - which is the previous link on my Blog.

Slashdot | Sprint Routers Stolen; NYC Internet Outage Ensues Interesting how the IP customers of these guys lost service as well.

Shutterfly | Shared pictures And there were these soccer uniforms a friend sent to me - have a peek and enjoy.

Shutterfly | Shared pictures For all the folks who attended the Bell Walk for Kids - here are all the photographs I shot that day for your viewing pleasure.