NHL 2007 Playoffs

With March Madness over, the NHL Stanley Cup playoffs picks up where it left off. Four grueling best-of-seven series to hoist the Lord Stanley's mug. Tons of tradition and history. Spent the morning (quickly) making my picks. Based my players on the teams that I think will make the Final 4: New Jersey Devils, Buffalo Sabres, Anaheim Ducks, and the San Jose Sharks with the Sabres winning it all.


My Calgary Flames just limped into the playoffs but I predict will knock off the top-seeded Western Conference team, the Detroit Red Wings in 7 games with the final game going into sudden-death overtime.

Google Offers Free Internet

As usual, Google posts their usual April's fool gag: introducing Google TiSP, wireless access using your sewer system! It's too good to be true right? Well, Gmail was launched on April 1st too...


Someone spent way too much time diagramming how it would work:

Coke Zero Sued

By Coke!?! Clever campaign ad, where they pull a "candid camera" on lawyers by having them try see if Coke has a case against Coke Zero for "Basic Taste Infringement". My guess is that Lawyers 4 & 6 are actually actors...

LCDs & Dead Pixels

Finally upgraded my trusty old BenQ 19" LCD to a 22" widescreen L226WA by LG. The only place in town that carried it in Canada was FS, so I was a little paranoid about having dead pixels, but this website helped me see that I was lucky enough to not have any. Was willing to take a chance since it is rated at 2ms refresh, a 3000:1 dynamic contrast ratio, HDMI & component inputs really puts it ahead of other 22" LCDs out there.

March Madness 2007

Not too many Cinderellas at this year's ball... No double-digit seeded teams made it through to the Sweet 16. Was able to catch a bit of the first round day action again through MMOD, here's this year's version of their 'Boss' screen:



A record number of entries in the eighth year of my pool too.