Highway 7

Drove to my parents house and took the very scenic highway 7... some pics

Ford just doesn't get it do they

So on my way to work on Thursday I saw someone driving a "Ford Escape Limited" from Kanata Ford....

Think about that for a second.... a _LIMITED_ Escape from somewhere you Cannat-afford?

I want a full escape for free damnit! There are Model-Ts rolling in a junk heap somewhere.

Man Im tired

left the door at 8am, got back home at 8pm.... long days are good though, cause it makes me feel needed @ work. I feel special that I was given something urgent to look at in my first 2 weeks.

My first Blackberry Pictures

So now I really have a reason to blog... I'll have images:) here are the first ones

View from my living-room window

More view from living room

Creek as seen from living room

The batmobile, my awesome car (I get 35mpg!)

Where I work

Off to the distance from where I work

Batmobile in batcave

Front of my home


Pictures of my Living room

the Blackberry, the Pictures, and the Macintosh: A Bluetooth Western

Howdy pardners

t'Day we gone learn 'bout taken dem der pichers on bakberr 8330, and uploo'in dem teh yer Maa'Intash.

Took me a while to figure out, but now I'm going to give you a guided tour of taking pictures on your Curve, and uploading them to your Macbook via bluetooth.

Step 1: Pair the devices
a) On 8330: Scroll to the Radio Antenna *click* -> Setup bluetooth *click* -> Allow another device to find me *click* -> OK *click -> "Waiting for a connection"

b) On Mac: Bluetooth Icon -> Setup a Bluetooth Device *click* -> Continue *click* -> Mobile Phone *click* -> continue *click* -> BlackBerry 8330 Continue *click* -> Continue *click* -> Remember NUMBERS







c) On 8330: Enter Numbers on Phone -> When "Accept connection request from " shows up make sure to click "Don't ask this again" and then YES
d) On Mac: clickthrough to finish

Step 2: Security Options on the Macbook
In System Prefs -> Sharing -> Enable Bluetooth Sharing.



Step 3: Sending the Media
On Device: Go to the media you want to send -> Send Using Bluetooth *click*
On Mac: Accept in Documents look for your media.

My adventures in QT

QT seems really nifty. Cross platform GUI API+tools for C++.

Here is where my adventure starts

Bug 1: In windows, after installation you must set full permissions of the install dir for anyone wishing to invoke qmake.

Bug 2: Rather than invoking qmake as explained in most tutorials, Mac users must invoke qmake -spec macx-g++ No one told me this... but Im telling you.

Bug 3: QtWebKit requires you to manually edit the Makefile generated by the bug2 command.... perhaps you need to do more with -spec

figuring out these issues took me 2 nights work (interrupted by a couple hours of TV of course), I hope I saved you that time.

First Day at Work

I had a good first day at work... of course, I do not yet have access to the source code that I will be working on (red tape), but I got lots of other admin type stuff done today.

I had a good meeting with my new manager (my old manager moved to a different team) and I feel very positive about the work I will be doing.

Of course, dont look here for any tidbits about whats going on where I work... I really cannot speak about anything related to what I do.