“Chewy Junior” – There’s just something awesome in the name. I’m not sure if it sounds ‘saucy’ or ‘childish’, but no matter what, whenever I tell my friends I’m going to Chewy Junior, by far Canada’s most exciting franchised food and beverage business to open in recent history, they look at me funny. But that all ends when I flip…
Why Yelp is No So Good
Yes, I did intend to write ‘no so good’. I have an accent so lay off, cut me some slack and throw a dog a bone. I have meaning to post this for a long time and failed but recently there was some article about how Yelp was found to be scammy in the way it deals with reviews, so…
How to Start Thunderbird and Other Programs at Startup in Ubuntu 14.04
UPDATE 2023: A full nearly 10 years later I realized this blog post is still nearly good but a small change is required in the steps below as follows for ubuntu 22.04+ kind of range after step 2: * after hitting the browse button in step 2 you need to hit ‘+ Other Locations’ at bottome of left pane, then…
Telus: You Call That Tech Support?
I just had to share my horrific Telus internet tech support story. It was so frustrating that it is interesting. Because they have said they will be giving me a couple of months free internet, I’m not going to include a few other stories that surrounded this one, but it’s wrong for me not to share at least this one. …
Morse Code in Music
As a licensed and active amateur radio operator, I started learning morse code a few months back. My reasoning is that it’s like audible brail – why would I not want to learn that? If I was fluent at it I could communicate effectively without words… Anyway, my buddy Joe found this video on youtube which actually caught me off…
Should a Believer be Active or Passive Against Injustice and Evil?
If something unfair, unjust, or evil happens, should we simply pray for the power to forgive the evildoer or should we take action against the evil? This is the question I was in sudden need of exploring after a friend of mine called into question the motives behind where I was spending some of my time and whether or not…
The Secrets of Pipe Smoking
It was hard to come up with a title for this. Here are some ideas I toyed with: Why Smoking a Pipe Makes You Cooler Why Losers Don’t Smoke Pipes If You Want to be 79% More Classy, Smoke a Pipe. Why your Grandpa Smoked a Pipe and Why He was Cooler Than You Why Pipe Smoke Smells Awesome and…
Sound problem with Qtel (open source Echolink) in Ubuntu 14.04
If you are looking to get set up Echolink on your shiny new Ubuntu 14.04 machine, be sure to read the how to article I wrote before. However, even after having such a formidable victory and feeling waves of joy when the repeater list finally populated Qtel on my Trusty Tahr, I had a less-than-raring experience of not being able…
Audible for Ubuntu: Epic Fail
Trying to listen to an audio book from Audible.com on your Ubuntu machine? Spare yourself the pain, and just ask to cancel and get your money back. They have no plans to help you. I hope I can one day edit this post with some good news, but until they they are in bed with proprietary operating systems of the…
How to Use Echolink (QTEL) on Ubuntu 14.04
Thanks to Joe for actually searching the solution(s) and emailing me. I figured we should publish this for others. I figured worst case scenario, I would probably need to log these solutions for later when I forget, ha. First of all, you can apparently use the native Echolink windows app using Wine in Ubuntu. But that’s kind of like praying…