Taiga's just taking a quick nap!


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Still tired, but the puppy is learning a lot! Look, he's already surfing the web:


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As you can tell by this photo, I am extremely tired...


Saturday morning, I woke up in NY, and drove 800km to get home by 3pm. Now, the puppy has arrived and while he is cute, he's also a handful... soo bloody tired.
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Visited my puppy Taiga again today! One more week and he will be ready to take home!

Photos:
His mom is making sure he's OK:
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One of my favourite television shows is Dragon's Den. This show airs in several versions around the world, including the U.K., Canada, and as "Shark Tank" in the US. The premise is simply that business entrepreneurs present their business plan to five "Dragons", who are self-made businesspeople worth millions, and ask for their money in exchange for equity in their company.

I love the show because it's great to see all of the crazy business plans and product ideas that people have. Occasionally, the idea is a good one, and I find myself saying "Wow, I'd buy that". The Dragons usually follow suit and offer the entrepreneur an investment.

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There's about twenty TV shows right now that I enjoy watching. However, I really don't have the time to watch them when they actually air, and sometimes I don't even have time to watch them the same week they air. Also, many of them are off-the-air for months at a time, such as Top Gear.

A few years ago I wrote a little piece of software called TVGet, and I've been refining it ever since. Here's what it looks like right now:

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The software basically tracks as many TV shows as I can throw at it, figures out when the next episode is on, and then attempts to download the episode from a variety of places on the internet. Once the file has arrived, it automagically renames it into the naming scheme I prefer and adds it to the folder where that show lives on my file server. The server itself keeps track of which episodes I've yet to watch.

It's simplified my life and allowed me to enjoy these shows on my schedule, and not on the broadcasters.
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Just for fun, I mounted this waterproof speaker into my shower:


Now, my singing in the shower will sound that much better!
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For over 15 years, my main home automation technology has been a product called X10. You may have heard of X10: They were famous for super-annoying popup ads involving spy cameras in the early part of this decade. But their home automation technology has actually been around since the 70's.

It's actually one of the most 'available' technologies: Over 15 companies rebrand it with their own name (IBM HomeDirector, Radio Shack Plug'n'Power) but the technology is the same and they're all compatible. However, there's one big problem: It sucks.
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So, I'm dragging back this ancient journal because I needed a place to post some puppy photos!

Some of you may have heard that I'm finally getting my own puppy. He's a husky/malamute cross, and is currently 5 weeks old.

Here's what he looked like at 3 weeks:


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