Sell Your Stock Photography

September 2, 2007

With the cost of digital cameras and scanners having come down so much it’s never been easier to scan your old pictures, or take new pictures. If you’re like me then you’ll take about 100 bad shots to that one really good shot where you say to yourself “Wow, I could make money selling this”. [...]

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Dreaming of a Corvette

June 15, 2007

It’s been a dream of mine for many years to own a Corvette, lately a 2003 Corvette z06. Past versions of the dream involved me parked on a quite street in my Corvette with a very busty blond to keep me company. It’s been updated a little, swap that busty blond with my fiery red-haired [...]

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The Penelopiad

April 24, 2007

I finally got around to reading this. After having been to the book signing and listening to Margaret Atwood read an excerpt of her creation you’d think I would have jumped right into it. To be honest I can’t even remember when I went to the book signing. I think it was around the time [...]

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10 Days Post ACL Reconstruction and Things Look Good

August 26, 2006

It’s been a good 10 days now since I’ve had the surgery and it looks like things have gone well. I’m getting more and more mobility every day and was even able to return to work last Monday. Thanks to Lance for driving me to and from work from Monday through Wednesday. Thursday and Friday [...]

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ACL Reconstruction Surgery Tomorrow

August 16, 2006

Well I’m going in for my ACL (Anterior Cruciate Ligament) reconstruction tomorrow morning at 7:30. I’m not sure what time the surgery will be or when it will be over. My surgeon really didn’t give me much detail and his assistant was pretty light on the details when I asked her. I guess that’s the [...]

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Firefox Improves Java Performance With Release 1.5.0.6

August 5, 2006

A while back I wrote about my frustration with Firefox’s poor Java performance on Java intensive sites, most notably while using Google’s Analytics or making a new [and editing] posts on Blogger. It seemed that Google did a change to solve this problem though I did experience this problem still on other websites or if [...]

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Downtown Winnipeg, a Classy Destination

August 1, 2006

OK, perhaps classy destination is a tall order when you’ve actually experienced the sites and sounds in downtown Winnipeg. The note I found [below right] when returning from lunch with a couple of coworkers is an example of the typical fare one find at the core of an otherwise great prairie city. Face it, when [...]

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Debit Fraud at Silver City Winnipeg

July 5, 2006

Over the past few days I’ve been seeing a few visitors coming to demetri.ca from Google in relation to the debit card scam [AKA debit card skimming] that I was victim to last Saturday June 24th, at the Polo Park Silvercity, and that had me wondering just how many people were affected. I haven’t seen [...]

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Robbed! At Silver City Polo Park

June 27, 2006

I wasn’t attacked or held up at gunpoint, I never saw my robber, or even had to stair down a would be assailant but I was robbed and violated just the same. Heather and I had gone to Silver City Polo Park on Saturday night to relax and watch the 9:55 showing of Cars. We [...]

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Chinese Lion Takes Over York the Hotel

June 20, 2006

At about 11:45 this morning I took a look out my window towards York the Hotel‘s parking lot and spotted a podium having been setup and a couple of guys in furry pants practicing something. Then lots of cameras and gawking public showed up leaving me and the boys in the office in wonderment as [...]

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