I went out to run some errands this morning before I went to do some rock climbing, namely I went to the St. Lawrence Market hoping to pick up some bread and something else for dinner. I had been there on Friday and the fact that the market sells kangaroo, camel, and ostrich had my curiosity piqued. Little did I realize however that the St. Lawrence Market is not open on Sundays or Mondays. It wasn’t a complete waste of time though…

I’ve been carrying my camera around like a useful version of my appendix since I got it… (this behaviour was reinforced by my rage at having left my camera at home one day when I happened to see some Storm Troopers downtown) and was able to grab some photos of a film that is being done in the area near the market. It didn’t occur to me to find out what film (hey maybe it’s even a tv series…) it was they were shooting, but maybe some one will see these pics and be able to identify it. There’s also a couple of other random pictures here that I took today. LOOK AT THEM!

  
  
    
  

Ah that new web design smell: Only half as noxious as new car smell. I attempted to launch the new design on Thursday, but failed to test in Internet Explorer. Tisk tisk I might add. It did not bode well and there were all sorts of Errors that cropped up. Layout problems… crashing… you know… the typical. At any rate, I believe that it’s all sorted out now and working in the latest versions of Internet Explorer, Chrome, and Firefox. There’s one more item stricken from the to-do list. As I’m now involved in a music night with work I’ve got some songs to be doing, so I’ll be trying to get them recorded in the near future.

Speaking of which, I’ve done gone and made things a little bit harder on myself for completing the items on that list. A little more than a week ago, I broke down and bought myself a PSP. A used one that came with God of War. I’ve also broken down futher and picked up Final Fantasy Tactics, a component cable, an 8gb memory stick, and a bunch of demos from the PSNetwork. I’ve only played about an hour and a half of Tactics so far (though had played the PS1 version more than once) and I gotta say: awesome. This is what the game should have been in the first place. The translation is great, and I’m really a fan of the style used in the cut scenes. Bravo Squenix. You did some good in this world. Expect me to swoon some more when I finish the current book series I’m involved in.

And for the sake not letting this one escape… here’s a picture I took last week. Better late than never, right?

For those of you who have been here before, welcome back! As you can see, the site has undergone a transformation.  It’s taken a couple of weeks of work to get everything up and running and the only thing to beware of at this point is that in many of my older blog posts, I have linked to other blog posts.  As a result of the redesign, these links may not all be working yet.  I’ll be going through and updating these links in the near future, but in the meantime, hopefully you like the new layout as much as I do and don’t have any difficulty navigating around!

Edit: Oh Dear… Internet Explorer really hates my CSS… I’ll have to try and fix that this weekend.

As you are aware, not only did I have plans to change the site design, but google pulled a fast one on me and also has decided to limit the ftp capabilities of blogger.

I’ll be switching the site tomorrow night, so here’s some short head’s up for those of you who subscribe through RSS… things are a gunna be changing.

Catch ya on the flipside!

I’m being evicted from Blogger :*(

On the up side, this news came to me while I was already in the middle of re-designing my site… but this unfortunately means that I need to find another method for easily updating the blog portion of my site…

Does anyone have any suggestions for non-google operated blogging systems that can connect to custom webspaces through ftp?

I found my solution

Can’t stop listening to this at the moment.

I’ve only had a DSLR for a little more than a month now, so I don’t particularly feel qualified to make in depth reviews just yet. But taking the advice from some friends and teh interwebz, I decided to pick up a Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 II from Best Buy on Boxing Day since I saw that they were selling it for a piddly $99. Apparently, I wasn’t the only person keen on such a sale as it ended up being sold out. The lens was put on back order however, and I have received it this week. Having got a little time to play, I can say this: I likes. Here’s a few of the pictures that I’ve taken with said lens this week:

The bus shelter on King/Church, and my mug (Andrea made me that scarf).

My desk after a night of gaming, and a random person from my neighbourhood waiting for the streetcar.

The view from George St. in Toronto, and some optical equipment at my optometrist’s.

- Record 12 songs

- Destiny of an Emperor Palace Theme
- Mr Big: Take Cover
- Joe Satriani: Love Thing
- Satriani: Ten Words
- Megadeth: She Wolf
- Megadeth: Back in the Day
- Skid Row: Slave to the Grind
- Yngwie Malmsteen: Sorrow
- Bach: Prelude Cello Suite #1 (BWV1007)
- Moist: Push
- Jimmy Eat World: Futures
- Foo Fighters: Monkey Wrench

- Perform live
- Participate in a video game competition
- Beat the games I own but have never finished

- Assassin’s Creed
- Dragon Quest V
- Legend of Zelda Twilight Princess
- Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicals
- Drake’s Fortune
- Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days

- Finish re-reading The Wheel of Time and then read The Gathering Storm

– The Path of Daggers
- Winter’s Heart
- Crossroads of Twilight
- Knife of Dreams
- The Gathering Storm
- Towers of Midnight?

– Redesign this website
- Pay for a new lens using money earned from photography
- Make a triptych
- Finish the Dragoon Kain Munny that I started
- Leave North America

You may recall that I am a fan of music. Of gaming. Of video game music. And you may even recall that I am a fan of Final Fantasy IV. Thus, it should be of no surprise to you then, that when I heard of Final Fantasy IV: Echoes of Betrayal, Light of Redemption; a nerdgasm ensued.

So now that I have a guitar again, I’m in the process or re-learning how to play. I’ve decided to start with learning a song from Destiny of an Emperor. I just figured out the bass line and recorded it, so over the next week hopefully I can figure out the guitar.

Destiny of an Emperor, Palace Theme

INTRO:

G|--------------------------|

D|------------------------8-|

A|-13-----13-13-9-8-6-6-6---|

E|--------------------------|

THEME:

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|3x

|G|-------------------------------------------------|

|D|-------11-------13-15-13----13-15-13----13-15-13-|

|A|----11----11-13----------13----------13----------|

|E|-11----------------------------------------------|

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|G|-------------------13-15-|

|D|----------11-13/15-------|

|A|----11-13----------------|

|E|-14----------------------|

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|G|----15----15----13----13---10---10-------|

|D|-------------------------------------6-8-|

|A|-13----13----11----11----9----9----6-----|

|E|-----------------------------------------|

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|G|---10---10----13----13-------------|

|D|-----------------------------------|

|A|-9----9----11----11----13-13-11-13-|

|E|-----------------------------------|

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