Cool cards for the holiday season

Some Christmas cards arrive in the mail while others come via email. Mercedes-Benz Canada went the latter route, so I can share it here: Happy Holidays!

Hyundai Canada’s card is great too. The white wintery picture on the front breaks up into half-a-dozen gift tags that’ll go nicely with our wrapping paper choice.

Anyway, [...]

Targa Newfoundland Here We Come

Not long before Christmas, a friend, colleague and fellow AJAC member, Kevin Corrigan, asked me if I would co-drive/navigate for him in the 2010 Targa Newfoundland tarmac rally. Seeing as he’d just purchased a shiny orange fully-built RWD rally car from the UK and I’ve been wanting to do this for sometime now, it was [...]

Update to 2.8.1 complete

I’ve had my blog setup this way for a few months only and already I’ve done three core updates. The first two gave me a few mild headaches and some of my plug-ins required a bit of fiddling with to get things to work just right. And, so I contemplated the process for a week [...]

360-to-PC networking

Another great benefit of being able to communicate with my protected home wi-fi network is that the 360 lets me stream my music and photos stored on my PC to my HDTV monitor at roughly 54 Mbps thanks to Windows Media Connect software found on Xbox.com. Different versions are available for different operating systems, so [...]

Get on Xbox Live with cheap wireless-to-Ethernet tutorial

I played with the 360 a few weeks before subscribing to the XBOX Live service. After hours upon hours of playing PGR3, Perfect Dark Zero and Kameo over and over again all by myself, I was ready to get onto Live.

My cable modem and, thus my Internet connection, is located two stories above in [...]