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Digital CV

Daigle — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 13:13:37 +0000

Sure I haven’t updated my site in a long while, but last night I stumbled upon my Photoshop and came up with this nice digital CV.
Kudos to hv-designs for the layout tutorial for inspiration.

Graduated!

Daigle — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 11:47:40 +0000

Oh yea! It’s finally here and damn it feels like my smile goes all the way from mouth to ears and down to my ass. That’s how much I love this feeling! I’m now a Bachelor of Business Information Technology or at least that’s what I wrote to my thesis so I suppose it says so in my diploma as well. Can’t be arsed to check :)

Oh and no, it’s not all there! Got myself tickets to Florida in January for 5 full weeks. Finally a getaway from this cold hellhole and -20 degrees winter! And snow, don’t even get me started. It’s finally time to say arrideverci to all the snow for 5 weeks and welcome a city of 360 sunny days in a year, St Petersburg, FL!

Now there’s only one thing to do for now… BEER, PLEASE! :P

Will start sorting out the graduation party and travelling issues next week. Now I can’t be much bothered to give a damn about any worries :D

Site upgrade

Daigle — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 00:39:52 +0000

May not be noticeable to you, but I finally managed to find the time to upgrade my site software to latest version. So WP 2.8.1 has been installed and everything is running smoothly.
Also I upgraded all the plugins and removed some of the unnecessary ones such as the featured post thingy. Expect to see some new ones coming up though!

Messenger acting weird on Win7

Daigle — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 22:30:56 +0000

Aight, I got the new Windows beta on my computer and have had it for a while now. Surely I’m such a social butterfly online that I need to have MSN installed as well. But the thing with Win7 and Windows Live Messenger (aka MSN Messenger) is that since there’s this superbar that works as the quick launch and taskbar, you don’t really have the contact list at your hand. So when you click on the MSN icon in your superbar, it shows two windows: logged in thingy and the main contact list window. So I can’t get to contact list right away by clicking the damn icon. Plus I could use the thing in the system tray really so it’s out of sight and only the chats and the contact list come up with the superbar click.

So there’s a workaround for this and it’s pretty simple actually:
1. Head over to the start menu, find Windows Live Messenger
2. Right-click on the main application shortcut and select Properties
3. Pick the compatibility tab
4. Tick the first box available and pick Windows Vista

This will make the program work as it was in MS Vista. Now you get your beloved MSN icon to system tray and MSN works “normally” in the “superbar”.

School extended

Daigle — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 06:20:42 +0000

I got a letter yesterday from my school stating that I’ve been giving an extension to finish my studies!

This is excellent news as I’m alread so close to finishing it. The extension was given until the end of year 2009. Right now with the training done tomorrow, I have 43 credits missing. With thesis taken out, that’s 28 credits which is like less than 10 courses to take care of in the next 6 months.
Problem however lies in the fact that I’ve no idea how the courses are organized. They better be during autumn or I’ll be missing them. I do have 2-3 courses to do during summer and I’m waiting for my teacher’s assignment on networks (been waiting for 2 months). All these summer courses and the network thingy would bring me about 12 credits. So I’m pretty much just missing the programming courses.

Hopefully I will get everything done in time! :P

School update

Daigle — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 18:19:35 +0000

Well, as surprising as it may seem, I’m finally got to the stage where I had to start thinking about graduating and along graduation comes thesis. So when I had a chat with my teacher about my future studies, we came to an agreement that I’d be working on my thesis during summer. This is because I want to do so. Working during summer is good financially, but who the hell wants to work on school stuff after a day of working. So I said to my teacher that I’d do it during summer.

My practical training ends on Friday and after that I’ve about 3 months of holiday until courses start again. So during summer I’ll be working on my thesis and I chose to take a couple of courses that can be done at home. A Swedish course and this other course about IT systems. I also tried to get an English course, but couldn’t catch the teacher. But my priority will be on the thesis… though it’s not that rough really to be honest.

Thesis is about consulting a new website for this dog breeding company. Not sure if dog breeding is the term to use here, so pardon me for insulting anyone :)
So I’ll be doing a few website design layouts and investigate on the possibilities on how to make their current website a bit more fascinating and modern. That means finding out possible CMS systems (if any) and working on different coloured layouts. Right now I’ve been thinking of Cutenews and Wordpress as the CMS, but we’ll see what I come up with :)

That’s about it…

Oh and the graduation… Well assuming that I get to stay in school (running out of years to study again), less than a year :)

45 year old modem

Daigle — Thu, 28 May 2009 17:50:48 +0000

Some of us might remember the days when 33,6kbs was a superb speed for using the internet. Nowadays that feels extremely slow when the speeds are like 100 times faster. But Engadget.com reported today about a guy who found a 45 year old modem from his friend’s widow’s attic. She didn’t need it so he got it and decided to try connecting it to the internet. Speed of this is 300 baud which isn’t really comparable to modern speeds, but it’s slow :D

Pretty interesting to see how slow the Wikipedia website loads even though the graphical elements are non-existent in this text-based version of a browser used:

Getting old

Daigle — Sun, 24 May 2009 12:40:19 +0000

It’s getting to me. I feel like I’m too old for this study and party life nowadays. A couple of years ago I was ok with 2 days of partying a drinking. Now I can barely make it through one night :D
5 years ago 3 days wasn’t a problem, but now at tender age of 28, I’m starting to become a wussy :D

I did drink for two days, but yet I feel like I don’t understand it that much anymore. No hangovers or anything, but I just don’t enjoy it that much =/

Bianca Ryan vs. Britney Spears

Daigle — Wed, 20 May 2009 19:33:29 +0000

Now, I don’t mean to be rough on this one… Or well, I do. Just can’t avoid it. But we’ve seen Bianca Ryan in the America’s Got Talent show a couple of years back. This eleven-year-old did really well, but just a few minutes ago, I noticed something while browsing a Finnish website that has videos (Riemurasia). And what was notable is that it had Britney Spears in 1991 Start Search competition auditing for something, I don’t know what for. And they sound exactly like with Bianca Ryan to my ear.

So be careful Bianca, you might have a bright future in your hands. And watch out for those paparazzis :)

Here are the videos too:

Britney:

Bianca:

td.info checkpoint

Daigle — Sun, 17 May 2009 22:13:45 +0000

It was time that I changed something on my site. So when I noticed that my Wordpress backend was really out-dated, I decided to upgrade it. On top of that I decided that I cleaned my server a bit so I deleted a lot of bulls**t and installed a fresh WP over there. Then I just imported all the posts and comments to new system. I must say this is a huge leap forward compared to what WP used to be during the old 2.2 version :)

Anyway, plenty of changes coming up in the future as I’m installing plugins and tuning up the site to make it work the best way possible :)

Daigle out.