A waste of bits and bandwidth

*Points and laughs*

The lid on my salad dislodged itself on the way to work yesterday so the inside of my bag was covered in raspberry vinaigrette. Let me tell you, it was a big-ass salad; (a man needs his greens) what a freakin’ mess.

Work was a bit slow for me yesterday, so I decided to take advantage of the free time and work on my portfolio a little. I came up with a tweaked version of The Global Couch Potato Portfolio. I spent all of last night working on it and this morning I made five trades. E*Trade was probably wondering where all the activity was coming from as I haven’t been very active lately. Not having an income will do that.

I sold part of one position and bought four more which look to be solid performers. I’m still holding this POS ’cause it’s hardly worth the commission to sell it. Thanks George.

Against my better judgement, I watched The Amazing Race last night and it was really good. I already hate the rich guy, as I’m sure most people do. Whatta dweeb…

Oh, and if you ever need to pack a brain, (you could send one to the rich guy) here’s a HOWTO for you…

RLD

11/14/2004 – 12:52aM EST ns4.xxxxxxx.net/ns5.xxxxxxx.net are currently being attacked by a group of hackers and causing internet connectivity problems. We are working to resolve this issue. Thank you for your patience. Current network utilization is 3.6%

This is the reason you might have had difficulty reaching the site last night. I thought I should alert you ’cause I know a lot of you stay home on Saturday evenings to browse the vast Sevenapril repository of stupidity.

Wow, what a football game today! I’m not much of a fan and was just going to check out the start and then move on but I was glued to the TV all afternoon. The Lions are on their way to the Grey Cup after an OT win!

I was just as happy to see BC Place filled with fans for the first time in a long time. You have to wonder if that would have been the case had the Canucks played the night before…

So ends my four day ‘vacation’ and while I had no real plans heading in, I wonder where the time went. Now it’s Sunday night and I have all sorts of ideas for things I could have done. Next weekend…

RLD

If this article on BoingBoing is true, it would drop Shaw into the gutter with Rogers. It would seem that Shaw is filtering .torrent files resulting in slower downloads; much slower. I just started using Bit Torrent and it is painfully slow so maybe there is something to it. Anyone else notice the same thing?

I went out to Victory Square for the services yesterday and I was happy that I did. When I was in Burnaby I always went but the ceremony was across from my apartment so it was easy. Damn is was cold but it was nice to see so many people out to recognize the vets. It was also nice to see the corner of W.Hastings and Cambie reclaimed from the trash, even if it was only for a few hours.

I posted a handful of pics to the Gallery.

49% of Americans are sorry. I guess that means that 51% are not.

RLD

Thank you…

RLD