The tournament was a success. Our team raised just over $2300 in pledges for the James Fund.
Everyone had a great time, and on top of that, we tied for 6th place, and landed in the top 8 out of 56 teams!
GO Recreational Hazards GO!
Here are some photos from the day…
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I found out – at a department meeting yesterday – that I received a CCAE bronze medal for a DVD project that was completed last summer by myself and Justin.
We submitted the award in the “Best Audio + Visual and/or Multimedia” category and place third. This is a very big deal, as we went up against all other colleges and universities across Canada.
A lot of hard work, hours of tweaking and testing, and it paid off. YAY! 
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I have recently closed down several projects, and will be selling the following domains. If you’re interested, please contact me.
- canadalovesny.com
- canadalovesnyweekend.com
- entertocontinue.com
- hotelbiz.ca
- hotelbiz.com
- whatastupididea.com
- x-marksthe.com
Put your offers in…
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“They” say that you are what you eat… and Carol has taken a liking to calling Justin and myself “Nerds”. Why? Because we actually know what we’re doing with computers and technology.
We’ve fixed her computer, speaker system, and entertainment system.
So what did she do? She bought us NERDS!!! I haven’t had these things in years… mmm…
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Well, after a ton of work, countless hours, and lots of research and input, the websites at work have been launched. All by 9 a.m. on the launch day!
Check them out and let me know what you think.
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So, I get a somewhat frantic e-mail on June 8, 2006 from a client of mine saying:
Hi David. I seem to have a problem that needs to be looked at over at my office. It’s the rack mount. It looks like PCI slots have bit the big one. I don’t know if the MOBO is fanito or what the story is but it can’t see any of the slots. I can’t get on the net which also means my network is down and that is never good for us.
Can you let me know what you think can be done and when you can come and take a look for me.
Thanks;
A few things to note:
- He’s a nice guy
- He’s somewhat technical – hence the jargon about the PCI slots
Due to conflicting schedules and whatnot, I end up going to his office today to take a look at the computer. This is what I found:
- He tells me that his employee was sitting in the room and noticed that the computer rebooted itself, and when it started up, it showed device errors.
- He tried to update the drivers and such, but to no avail – which is when he got in touch with me.
- The computer is running Win XP Pro and appears to be functional
- I check the device manager, and there are some devices that are not recognized
- modem is not recognized
- network adapter is not recognized
- RAID adapter is not recognized
- I try to run the update drivers function, but it doesn’t find the drivers
- I shut down the system, unplug the power cable, clear all the power out of the system, and boot it back up
- Takes me to the same problem as before – problem still persists.
- After talking with him, we decided to run system restore to put the computer back about 2 weeks ago – right before the problem happened. Booted the system back up, and still doesn’t recognize the same devices.
- At this point, I figure that it’s a hardware problem, and perhaps a PCI slot has died – happened to me before.
- I open up the case, use my compressed air to clean out some dust – there really wasn’t much. I put the can down on a counter behind me.
- I notice that the modem is the only PCI device. The network card and RAID controller are on-board.
- I smell something a bit weird. I stick my head into the case to smell to see where it’s coming from. It’s smells a bit like a burnt capacitor or something.
- I turn back to get my air can, and when I turn back to the computer, I notice something that looks like a large dust ball. Take a look at what I found in the following 2 pictures (My client Elliot took them – I didn’t have my camera with me)
- As soon as I see this, I stand up and say to him “Dood – you have a problem”. He’s like WTF are you talking about? I tell him he has a mouse in the computer and he’s like “NO – ARE YOU KIDDING?”. Anyways, he hesitates, and I say “Come here and check it out”. He says “I don’t want to see it!”… I push him a bit more – he comes over – sees it – calls his fahter to come and take a look.
- Long and the short – he gets some latex gloves on, grabs the mouse (as if I would do that!) and puts it in a plastic bag to throw out. As he’s grabbing it, he says that it’s crispy! LOL
- He later confessed to me that he opened up the machine a few days ago, and didn’t notice or smell anything.
I was taking a look at the case, and found that 2 of the slots in the back of the computer didn’t have the slot covers installed. The mouse was quite small, so I’m presuming that’s where it got into the case. I guess it’s a good thing it didn’t find it’s way to any of the fans in the case!
Anyways, I tried to get the devices working – moved the modem to a different PCI slot, updated drivers, etc. – nothing worked. Now I have to see if I can get him another Asus P4C800 – so that it will not require new drivers and such.
That’ll be the last time that I go to a clients without a camera!
I’ve seen other things on the internet about how someone found their pet snake in their computer, but I’ve never witnessed this myself in the 15+ years I’ve been doing this!
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You can now order limited edition prints of my photos online.
Just visit my photography portfolio page to order.
You can select the size and finishing of the photo.
All orders are processed securely through PayPal’s website. There’s no need to have a PayPal account as you can order without one.
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