Start of 2016

With the old year behind us, it's time to think about what the new year has in store:

• I will turn 27 this year. I'm starting to feel that I have some 'experience' in life but I still feel very young. 
• I will continue to attend things like Geeks and Gamers and the camera club.
• I'm going to try and find even more interesting things to do! Hopefully I will meet new people and maybe find some more job opportunities. I have a contract at the moment(I forgot to blog about it.) but it won't last forever. 
• Parliament will resume and we will see how good the new government can govern. 

Well looks like it will be a good one! 

End of 2015

So another year, almost to close.This year I came to realize that I need to get out there and do stuff, here is some of the stuff I did: 

• I joined Georgetown Geeks and Gamers, who meet up once a month to play board games. 
• I went out in the summer to garage sales. 
• I invited friends over, I discovered this December that although a number of my friends live in Toronto now, I can still keep in touch with them via Skype.
• I continued doing things with the camera club.
• I attended several Christmas events

 Other things that happened in 2015:

• I was invited to a friend's wedding reception(thank you Yacoub) 
• There was a federal election. I think the new government will be better then the old one, how much better I'm not sure. 
• I upgraded to the free Windows 10, released this year. 
• My first credit card expired. 
• We got the new community mailbox just to be told the program is being frozen and evaluated. Although if you have a community mailbox your stuck with it.(at least thats what I've heard) 
• We got a new outdoor antenna! 
• Many more adventures 

Stay tune tommrow as my next entry will be about my plans for next year!

Microsfot Edge

I apologize to my readers, blogspot does not support Microsoft Edge, if you want this blog to display correctly, you will have to use another browser for now.

WIndows 10 update Part I

So I'm trying to install a Windows 10 update. It's not a security update(I have no problem with those). After a reboot I see a graphic that tells me the update is 0% complete.

Then my computer reboots again and reverts back to the old version of the old OS. The only message is a notification on login telling me the update failed

The update is fairly large and takes about 45 minutes to re-download. There is then about 2 hours of prep time before it can be installed. I've tried several times, waiting for the re-download and prep each time. I've decided to tell Windows to defer the update till a latter date(probably a weekend) when I can examine the issue further. If defering updates sounds like something that would help you out I will point out that it's exclusive to pro edition of Windows 10 and above.

At the moment it appears that are bootable DVD ISOs you can download. These appear to be effective, I have to make sure these are updates and not clean installs. This might seem like a wast of a DVD but I have a DVD-RW I got at the thrift store that would be perfect for this. You can also use a USB thumb stick but I haven't booted with those very often so I don't fully trust them.

I'll will follow up this post with a part 2 when I explain what I did. I'm fairly busy right now so it won't be till the new year.

End of door-to-door delivery part II

So I talked before a few yeas ago about how I was upset that Canada Post was going to(and has now) stopped door to door delivery of mail. Here is what I think of it now that it has actually happened.

- Like I said before it said that some people have lost their jobs, it's hard for older people to get their mail.

- It appears that any packages that require a signature must be picked up at the post office.  You must show valid ID to get the package which is a bit safer then just having to sing for something. This is actually a positive to come out of this. Also I didn't expect them to do this but the community mailboxes have a series of 4 -8(I  can't remember how many) boxes for larger delivers. This reduces the amount of people who have to drive to get the mail at another post office and is not as bad as I thought it would be. Mail for one household is never shared with another, so there is a fairly good chance of a number of people having to pick up the mail at the post office at Cristmass time.

- The boxeses are larger then I expected and acctually fit smallar packages(like adapters) very easily, this is also not as bad as I thought.

- Also the mailboxes are nicely spaced out and don't take up a tune of space like I thought they might. I think most of them are in walking distance too.

-Walking too the mail isn't bad in this weather but having too 'suit up' this winter is not something I look forward too. Although they don't take up much space I read in the paper that at least one person is sueing the town for having a mailbox installed on what she considers to be her propitiate (and not the towns).

- Lastly I found some liter(an ad) by the mailbox which woulden't be there if they delivered door-to-door.

So what do I think overall:

- It's still not the best but not as bad as I thought it would be. 

AnoutherJS problem.

I had a problem with JS today, as usually it related to copy/pasting. This time I did not get a syntax error when using 'aVar == "value"' even though you thought I would. This caused a veriable to never get assigned too, not what I wanted.

Site updated

My site has been updated:

• I have updated the backend and fixed a security issue that was not effecting me currently but may have in the future.
• I have removed the login panel since I am the only one who needs to login. 

That all for now but don't forget to check out the project I uploaded yesterday.