The Roger’s Cup was held this week at the Rexall Centre at York University.  It was the men coming to Toronto this year. Sonia had premium VIP tickets to go see some of the action on Tuesday but had to decline at the last minute because O.G. was going through the midst of a strept… Read More »
Sonia, OG and I rented an 8 ft tent trailer for our recently completed trip to Montreal July 18-24. It was a tremendous success. My greatest worry was how OG would sleep at nights and if they didn’t go so well, what the neighbours would think. It turned out that this concern was unwarranted. She… Read More »
There were some interesting talks towards the end of the conference that definitely increased the value of going. The bummer of it all is that I now have to give a talk to the group about my experiences at JavaOne. Just high level stuff though so that’s not so bad. On the Thursday night the… Read More »
So, the sessions are starting to overlap with content. I guess there really isn’t much to talk about Java. It seems there’s only AJAX, SOA and all these other “Web 2.0” technologies and that’s it. The talks are only 1hr so you never get any decent detail. You’d be better off just searching the web… Read More »
To catch a cold in spring? Well, it happened to me. For the first time in I don’t know how long I actually took a sick day from work. But with Olivia and Sonia just on the tail end of their colds, it was not a stay in bed kind of day. The good news… Read More »
This is the 1st year Sonia and I have gone down to the SkyDome to participate in the ‘Round the Clock SloPitch Tournament in Toronto. Tina has put together a team that consists of mainly members from the 2005 reigning NCR champions and/or from the 2003 championship team. These members would be: Sonia, Jay, Tina, Kaastra, Joey,… Read More »
During the SloPitch tourney, a group of us went to the RoundHouse for a tour of the Steam Whistle Brewery. This is a local Toronto beer that is brewed in the strictest pilsner fashion. It has a very strong and bitter flavour that you’re going to either love or hate. Either way, it must be… Read More »