Posts Tagged ‘friends’
Social networking
Every week or so I update my contacts; I check Facebook, Flickr, Twitter, LiveJournal, LinkedIn, FriendFeed, Plaxo and GigPark. (I also check Last.fm once in a while but it still says the friend finder feature is “coming soon”.) Read more »
Merry Christmas
Kerri and I want to wish everyone a very merry Christmas and happy Hanukkah … and I’d like to remind everyone to send me your contact info please.
Lost contacts
I had a problem synchronising my address book a few days ago (you could probably hear the scream!) and consequently I have lost some or all the contact info for most people! It deleted all the emails addresses, so I can’t even mass-mail people directly and ask for the missing snailmail info. Aaargh!
Anyway, this means I have to rebuild my contacts list virtually from scratch, so please send your details (postal and email addresses, phone number) to me at “lostfriends” at my domain (henman.ca); if you have it in .VCF (vCard format) then that’s great as I can simply import it, but plain text is fine too.
Before anyone asks, no I don’t have a recent/reliable backup – that’s partly why I was doing a sync 
Cross-posted to my LiveJournal.
That was the fortnight that was
Apart from my race notes and the odd auto-posted bookmark, I’ve not done an update since the Spirit of Toronto two weeks ago, so what’s happened since then?
- I took a day off and tried to make a dent in my never-ending To Do list
- There was the annual badminton competition – Mark & I were knocked out at exactly the same point as last year, so still no medals for us
- Most of Sunday was taken up with moving my stuff from one (work) laptop to another – most of it went well but my Outhouse configuration wasn’t copied over so I’m still trying to get it to behave the way
I likeI’ll tolerate - Monday was Victoria Day, which is a stat day in Canada so we borrowed a friend’s car and headed down to Niagara. A friend’s mum & aunt were over from England so we took them to a few wineries (listed below), on to Niagara Falls (photo) and then had dinner at the Pillar and Post in Niagara-on-the-Lake – we finally made it home just after midnight.
The wineries tour included:- Featherstone – an early start (technically before they opened, but Kerri works with them so that wasn’t a problem); the Topaz was a favourite
- Stoney Ridge – we joined a tour then sampled a couple of wines before checking out the cheese shop
- Henry of Pelham – lunch was the first order of business and then a few more samples; I recall the purchase of an expensive bottle but I don’t recall which one
- Crown Bench – we picked up another bottle of the Hot Ice; the Wild Ginger Ice and one more (I think)
- Tuesday was back to work – it may have been a 4-day week but it felt more like 9 days’ effort!
- Thursday night we had dinner with our English visitors and another friend – we took them to The Nose (Gio Rana’s Really, Really Nice Restaurant) and everyone enjoyed it. Hopefully Kerri will post more details, but basically the food, wine, service & company were great.
- Yesterday I nipped downtown to CompuSmart‘s closing down sale and picked up a hard drive enclosure, then went out with Andy in the evening (a pint of Denison’s Weissbier at the Auld Spot then more wheat beer & dinner at Allen’s).
- After watching the race this morning I had a look at my tax assessment – apparently I owe them the (large) amount I calculated but somehow Kerri’s rebate is a lot less than I thought. Hmmm
Other fun activities today include a huge pile of washing, an equally large pile of dishes, and then some reading for work. Hopefully I’ll get time to make progress with Black (gun porn on the Xbox).
Visitors map
I used to have a visitors map like this (below) but I think the website shut down, so here’s a new one:
Create your own visitor map!
At some point (soon) I’ll incorporate this into the blog’s layout rather than have it as an entry.
Obviously the service is still in beta because if you click on the map it says “‘s map“, i.e. my name is missing and there’s no option to add it. D’oh! It’s set in the map’s options; the site adds the apostrophe S and then it’s wrong when it’s displayed. Oh well.
Edited to add: Thanks to Sean for pointing out that the old site is still alive, so here’s my new visitor map from ClustrMaps.com:
