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Archive for November, 2008

I’ve been wanting a pair of Clarks Wallabees for a while now and I finally bought 2. It was the night before my co-worker’s wedding and I wanted to buy a pair of shoes to wear. I have a pair of black Timberlands that I wore in the past but they were uncomfortable. Abby was at Ontario Mills that day so I met up with her after work.

I decided to check out the Clarks store since I was already there. They had a sale, buy one get one at 25% off. I found some black, suede ones that I had my eye on the last time I was there. They feel so comfortable, it’s like walking on a matress. The guy also brought out the last pair of some canvas ones. They were nice and I haven’t seen them before so I bought them too. Abby liked the suede ones too so I bought her a pair too. So for 3 pairs of Clarks Wallabees I spent around $220 – not bad I thought.

Apple has recently released iPhone version 2.2. Safari has been updated and now has the Google search box next to the URL box. I don’t like it myself since it looks like it was squeezed in there. There are other fixes and updates but…

I’ve been waiting for this for a long time. The iPhone 3G is an international and supports multiple languages. But what if your country isn’t listed and you want to text or email people in your native language that isn’t supported? Well for months I was faced with this and the auto-correction bugged the crap out of me until I hacked my iPhone just so that I can disable the auto-correction. But now, Apple has finally implented the setting and am back to the original settings.

Why did it take so long Apple?

It’s finally here, World of Warcraft’s second expansion, The Wrath of the Lich King. I picked up the limited edition package with the mouse pad, dvd installer (I hated reinserting those CDs), behind the scenes DVD, art book and an in-game pet. I figured might as well pay the extra $ since I had some gift certificates to use up.

I’ve played about an hour of it so far earlier. I got my Death Knight made. You must have an available character slot in order to create one. You start off in Eastern Plaguelands at level 55. I’ve done a couple of quests with her already. A mount can be summoned once you complete a chain quest (2).

After messing with that, I changed on to my Paladin toon and did a couple of quests in the new lands. Some of the green gear I saw as rewards will already replace any existing blue gear you have.

So now I’m home and have installed it on my iMac and I come to this…

I captured the image 30 minutes after I logged in… and still waiting. This is worse than when The Burning Crusade expansion came out. Oh well…

Like many, I voted yesterday. I have been voting ever since I turned 18. I feel I’m obligated to take part of this being a citizen. But what was different yesterday is the polling place I go to went back to traditional voting methods. Unlike, the last presidential election I had the opportunity to vote electronically at the polls. What they did back in 2004 was hand out cards with GSM-like chips in them. I insert it in a machine and select the candidates I wanted to vote for. What’s great about this is I’m already used to using computers and I’m able to change my selection anytime before I press on the “submit” button. Well, yesterday I had to vote the traditional way and connected the lines to make an arrow. I’m not sure why they got rid of the electronic method of voting. I hope they bring it back in the future.

Plus I got a free cup of coffee from Starbucks for voting.