Month: June 2005

Fireplace at the Lake Originally uploaded by Big Dadoo. Today was out first full day of vacation at our family cottage on Lake of the Woods. Day 1 was spent packing up and then spending a wonderful afternoon with friends who are moving back to Toronto. We wish that things had turned out differently and Read More …

mini_lavalamp Originally uploaded by Big Dadoo. It wasn’t that long ago that Lava Lamps were ridiculed and now they seem to have become somewhat “cool” now but this is going a little too far.

Sunset Originally uploaded by Big Dadoo. Last weekend was the first nice weekend at the lake this summer. We spent the day on the dock soaking up the sun and enjoying the ripping south wind that was bringing in the heat. After dinner, the wind died down so we headed out on a little cruise Read More …

Well, literally I’m back up and running with a new disk and most of my software and data recovered. There are still several key files that I’m trying to recover via software, but that’s not going too well and as time passes, hope dims. Thanks to having a second disk on hand which I could Read More …

This is what greets me on the screen of my IBM T40 Thinkpad this morning at 8am. Initially, I’m not to worried, but after a couple of re-boot attempts, it begins to sink in – I’ve lost my disk. This is the kind of thing that happens to other people, not me. The T40 has Read More …

Family at the Wall Originally uploaded by Big Dadoo. When I was younger, perhaps six or seven, my family lived in Toronto. and, like this family, my parents took my sister and I to Niagra Falls. One of my most vivid memories of this trip was the hight of the stone wall shown in this Read More …