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I recently updated my Boxee Box and it seems to have broken it. I always take the updates and I’m always scared they’re going to break the damn thing but it seems you have no choice. I’d also had the box lock up a few times while browsing the list of movies but I wasn’t [...]
Continue Reading →We live on a mountain, a huge granite-filled monster of a mountain that seems to have filled our front and rear yards with its spawn. During some of our earthworks we’ve developed a few techniques for removing the rocks and boulders that we’ve encountered that we’d like to share with you Internet folks. Firstly, granite [...]
Continue Reading →We purchased our house in late 2006. We initially viewed the property in October and during the buying process it suffered a small leak in the basement. The sellers brought in a specialist contractor, shelled out $25K to have half of the perimeter draintile changed and we continued to buy the house. We assumed the [...]
Continue Reading →We acquired a dog in August 2008, much to the surprise of my wife who maintains she was shanghaied into accepting the deal. I’d wanted a dog for around 10 years but my contracting lifestyle didn’t suit it — long days, constantly moving. It wouldn’t be fair. It was only after we moved to Vancouver [...]
Continue Reading →I just finished watching ‘Up in the Air’ with George Clooney on my Boxee Box (I’ll blog about it — you just need MakeMKV and AnyDVD HD but it’s another long article). It was just me and Harley Dog chilling out as the evening was drawing in and I was mentally winding down the weekend [...]
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There is conflicting evidence as to whether caffeine is good for you or not. For every positive reference there seems to be a negative so I couldn’t decide whether I should give it up. Until recently I was drinking up to 10 shots of caffeinated Espresso per day but I finally weened myself off it. I [...]
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