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Time Shifts
July 26, 2005 at 9:07 am AST by Rodney MacLeod

The U.S. is proposing a new daylight savings plan, one that starts March and ends in November, two extra Months. People are complaining and say that they should not change it or that Canada should follow suit. In Canada though, daylight savings comes under provincial jurisdiction. Which is why Saskatchewan does not change its clocks like every one else.

A couple of Canadian complaints about the proposed change are that they time differences will affect businesses and air travel. Correct me if I am wrong, but are their not already time zones that create time differences.

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Counting Crows
July 19, 2005 at 12:47 pm AST by Rodney MacLeod

I dislike crows, and there a lot of them at my new place. When I heard of people down by Victoria Park complaining about a lot of crows I first thought it is just a couple of crows. Now that I live in an area with a high crow population I realize how difficult it is to sleep in, even to eight o’clock, with crows crawling around in your gutters and cawing at each other around my place. I don’t think I would complain to the city about it, but I do have a better appreciation for their problem.

The thing that really turned me against crows happened this Saturday at Fox Meadow Golf and Country Club.

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Road Kill
July 18, 2005 at 11:21 am AST by Kent MacLeod

Is it just me or does there seem to be a lot of road kill on the road lately? I feel like I\'m seeing a lot of dead crows around as well. Is it the drivers are bad this year, the animals are slower, or the Road Kill Cafe is not is business?

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Paying For Protection
July 13, 2005 at 12:36 am AST by Rodney MacLeod

I recently realised that I do not have surge protection on my coaxial cable coming in to my computer. I have started looking into getting the proper protection. Now I am talking to sales people again. Some know less than I do. Some are pushy sales people who sound like they are talking garbage to sell me the product.

What I have been told by people, not just sale people. Regular power lines have protection at them every so often so that if they get a surge, then it gets stopped before it hits everyone, the lines that Eastlink use do not have this protection, so a surge can travel uninterrupted. Electricity and signals coming into your house are dirty and spike, but they don’t spike enough to fry your computer, but enough that it will slowly damage the circuits. Most power bars are just extension cords. Most surge bars do not deal with dirty electricity or spikes.

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A New Place to Rest My Head
July 4, 2005 at 5:26 pm AST by Rodney MacLeod

I bought a new bed.

I have needed a new bed for quite some time. I have been sleeping on a $100 Sears continuous coil mattress and a free discarded box spring for the last eight years or so. After 8 years of sleeping on the same cheap mattress, and rarely flipping it, my mattress looked like a giant bowl. Everything sloped to the centre and the springs were starting to protrude.

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