It's a Segway! On Friday I got the chance to see and ride a Segway! For those that don't know, the Segway is a personal transportation device, kinda like a scooter. But instead of the wheels being in-line, they are beside each other, like the front axle of a car. It has 5 gyroscopes, so that it can balance when you stand on it. To move forward, you just lean forward. To back, lean back. Your left hand controls the turning. It can go up to 20km/h!! The one I rode was electronically...

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The bad? The Canucks lost to Minnisota in game 7 of the Western Conference Semi-finals. But hey, at least we made it to the 2nd round, eh? The best team did win and it wasn't us. We played lousy...lousy goaltending lousy defence, too many penalties, not enough scoring...bah. Oh well, onto golf and ulti season! I also now have a lot of respect for the Minnisota Wild. They have a chance to make it to the Stanley Cup finals! And I am now switching my allegiance to the Ottawa Senators! Go...

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Just fixed something that several of you have mentioned. If you were not logged in the blog would appear to let you comment and then when you tried to post your comment it would say "can't post if you aren't logged in" or something like that. I have now changed it so that if you aren't registered and logged in, you cannot comment at all.

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I am sure you were all mortified with my recent site outage!! I know I was. I would like to thank Greg Fox for pointing it out and [Evan][34] for helping me fix it.

I don't know the complete reason yet (need to do a little more research) but I do know that my firewall was denying all non-SSH connections. Why? I have two guesses. One, when I removed (not uninstall...remove!!) my firewall configuration tool sunShield, it left me in a bad state. Or two, when I disabled Apache 1.3, my port...

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