Viva Niagara! What a week it has been, my friends! I just returned home from six days and six nights in the beautiful and vivacious gorge town known as Niagara Falls, Ontario. It was no second honeymoon and, no, I wasn’t there to gamble. I did break even at the Fallsview Casino roulette wheel though — the only gambling device… Read more →
Alas, the day has come. After diving head first in to the automotive freelancing waters some seven-and-a-half years ago, it’s finally time to come back up for some air. I haven’t crossed over to the Dark Side (as in Public Relations), but I have come back to the land of full-time working zombies as the new Group Managing Editor for… Read more →
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, happy holidays to all my family,… Read more →
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 impossible to say no. Related… Read more →
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 before finally diving in today.… Read more →
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 make sure you get the… Read more →
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 my office, however, the logistics… Read more →
