• A can of Pepsi x2
• A piece of cake with frosting
• A donught with filling
• Bacardi Breezer x3

The rest of the time I’ve been drinking blended peaches (it’s the season!), eating some salad with dressing, got Jell-O as an alternative snack (instead of chips!). This morning I weighted in a 250 pounds, but I have a definite sense that over the week I’ve been improving greatly on what I eat, I’ll keep on with the challenge and bet on a healthier diet. This week I shall introduce physical exercise. Stay tuned! (Yes videos will return).

As of this morning I’ve had a banana and a V8 for breakfast, I’ll probably eat outside the house for lunch but I will have to make sure it’s healthy.

I usually like my cereals sweet, but good old regular Corn Flakes are still quite good without sugar added. At lunch I’ve decided to skip the regular trios and ditch the fries and soft drink, instead a simple double hamburger with a “diet” green iced tea.  It was still delicious, but for someone used to drive on a high level of calories I was hungry 5 hours later.

So I end this first day with two pieces of chicken, rice with peas, a Pepsi and a piece of cake. So you see that this last meal of the day is pretty much a disaster diet wise, but considering that I’ve cut the portions I don’t think it’s a complete fail.

I weighted in this morning (before breakfast) at an embarrassing 254 pounds, and to think women are offended if asked about their weight. But tomorrow morning will tell if that first day of efforts will start showing right away or not. I imagine it will require a few days before I can notice a change.

My current plan is to workout twice a week, avoid fried foods and soft drinks. If you have any advice please leave them in the comments below. Some cheering up would be nice too. Haters = downers = pessimistic loosers (please get lost in the woods).

Here is the in-audible video – but my head keeps bouncing!

I’ve noticed the first effects around mid-December and it seemed to affect mostly BitTorrent traffic. Basicly, as soon as it turns 6PM, the upload and download speeds of BitTorrent is capped at 30kb/s up and 30kb/s down, making the downloading of large files unpractical. However, the purpose of such measure does not really prevent the bandwidth to being used, because it’s still available, at the same time as they apply bandwidth caps in their peak hours, I’m still able to download shows from revision3 at around 500+kb/s.

I could imagine that their network was not created with the intent of distributed information sharing, and it’s easier for them to have a big downstream then to have multiple connections sharing bandwidth. They claim they do this to make sure everyone has their equal share of the network, and I intend to have it. Overall the only issue I have with this practice is that it discriminates a specific type of traffic. Why should my use of BitTorrent be slowed down when my neighbor is using just as much bandwidth on YouTube?

One could say that if you’re not happy with your ISP you just have to pick an other one. That was a good option until it was recently revealed that Bell Canada applies it’s throttling to the third party ISP it provides bandwidth for. All those local DSL providers are brought in the fold against their will. Internet is all about access to information, and if you put a certain type of data ahead of an other the equal chances that were given by the Internet dissapear.

Lets say you make a short film and you want everyone to see it. You don’t have the money to pay for an expansive web hosting plan that would allow millions of people to see it. One solution would be to use BitTorrent to help distribute the content you have. I am sicken by the behavior Sympatico has taken in the matter and after a chat with a customer service representative I know that this decision has been made by higher management as a way to reduce their cost and build of their profits.

That turkey is you… that man is your ISP. It’s meat is your money!

Nevertheless, I was not ready to move back to Windows XP and decided to install the latest version of Ubuntu on my laptop. I have been testing the various versions of Ubuntu since version 4.10 and I thank the Lord that they have made so many progress in the past few years. Everything works smoothly, all my hardware was detected and even my on-board wireless card was flagged as using proprietary drivers (still worked fine). The Ubuntu install CD lets you run a live version of the OS directly from the CD and gives you the option to install the OS on the hard drive.

I love the nice graphical effects you can add using Compiz, by now you must of seen a video of this on YouTube, with a spinning cube, rain or windows spinning around. Most of these are distractors from the main purpose that is stability and ease of use.

None of this is new really, I know how OpenOffice works but in order to be productive I’ll have to forget about those nice improvements Microsoft Office 2007 provided. It will be a bumpy ride, but I am to think that for a laptop on which I will not do any serious gaming there is no reason why Linux cannot take it’s rightful place as an alternate OS.

These kind of websites are successful depending how many of your friends are on it. I always tend to resist until I get many invites and just crack. That is what happened with hi5 a few months ago, look at it now, it’s a MySpace clone and is starting to integrate all I hate about it.

On the other hand Facebook has a refreshing look. It’s structured and it got all the nice things you like about a “friends aggregator”. You can post messages for everyone to see, you can send them private messages, join groups and post pictures and events. Facebook as always been more serious concerning it’s audience because at first you HAD TO BE a student with a valid school email address to sign up. In the US, all universities’ website end with .edu and it was quite easy to create a filter for… They’ve broaden their audience by allowing anyone to join but when it comes to School Networks they bring the concept back and you can join that network only if you’re really a student there. It’s a good way to keep child predators at bay (unless they’re students there).

I’ve got high hopes for Facebook and hope it’s there to stay for a while. Unless someone else can do better.

Now for all you people out there wondering if they should upgrade to Vista I will say: It’s a great operating system. I even believe it will be better than Windows XP ever was. However, considering the price to upgrade I would suggest waiting on the purchase of a new PC (or Mac). Rumor has that a service pack should be released by the end of the year and will most definitely improve the OS further.

DL.TV, Diggnation, IGN Weekly, The Totally Rad Show, Lab Rats, On the Spot, inDigital, CNet TV, and X-Play. These shows are weekly editions for the most but to get a better idea of their schedule you should follow the links to their website. The best way to enjoy videos on the web is to aggregate them in one place. This way you don’t have to jump from a website to an other. In my case I use these shows RSS feeds that give a link for the download as well as information about the episode. Democracy can be set up to automatically download the shows. This way you have a free TV on Demand on your computer (if you have the right set up you can send the image to a nearby TV, like I do). The shows are usually free but they are sponsored which is a good bargain for free.

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