Landscaping

Well this being the first nice week-end in the last month or so, it was designated landscaping week-end. This is because 3 weeks ago, we purchased the stones to redo the retaining wall in front of our house, and it hasn't stopped raining since that day.

Redoing a retaining wall is not as simple or easy a task as most people think, especially on an uneven ground.

Its now monday morning, and i am burnt, and exhausted. I can barely move, from the digging, moving of dirt, packing, and laying of stones.

The good news is that we are almost finished. We have 2 of the three layers done and glued. We have one more row to go, with some other minor details.

I sincerly enjoy working with my hands, but wonder sometimes, how people do this for a living when the temperature is what it was this week-end. I had to stop for 2 hours each day between 11:30 and 1:30, it was too hot for me to do manual labor. I would feel drained after a few minutes.

But looking at the wall now, it was worth the effort. The garden looks better, the front yard and overall the house looks better. I will post pictures when we are done.

Google's newest gadget

This is a more technical post that I am used to posting on this blog, but hey, I work in software development. It was bound to happen at sometime, right?!

Yesterday Google released its newest gadget for developpers. Have you ever wanted to create interactive web sites like GMail, Google Calendar, etc. But you know have lots to time to learn all the different browser quirks ( what works in IE, but not Firefox, etc). Well Google just relesaed Google Web Toolkit.

This toolkit allows you to write an application in Java, using Standard Object Oriented programming, using the Google library of widgets. Compiling a Google Web Toolkit project does not generate Class files like ordinary Java programs, instead in generates Javascript and Html code for your web application.

Take a look at some of the demos and see some of the possibilities.

Hockey season

Well its been a while since my last post.

First lets talk about hockey, i have seen team after team go down. First the habs ( of which i was there to watch ). It was an amazing game, but they just couldn't keep up. The goaltending was OUTSTANDING, but the rest of the team, was content in playing good hockey. The goal scorers simply did not show up during the series. But you have to hand it to Cam Ward. Extraordinary performance.

then we have the Ottawa senators, who had an exemplary season, and then died off in the playoffs. Now I can't say its all Ray Emry's fault, because its not. He is a second string goaltender who played really well, for a second string goaltender. When you lose games like 7-6, etc. There is something wrong.

My only interest in the rest of the playoffs, is to hope that Edmonton makes it all the way, and to keep an eye on the team who's owner is also my boss.

Better luck next year.

The Habs' last chance

Well it has come to this, Montreal is down 3-2 in the series, with game 6 coming back to Montreal. With the way our hockey pool was setup, this is the game I have tickets for. I would love to be there and see them win this game to take it back to Carolina and win. But before they can do that, there are a few things they need to do.

First, the offense needs to wake up and start shooting on goal, not NEAR the goal. If the puck does go towards the net, it can't go in. They also need to step up the offense, and play like they want to win.

The next, and I think the most important part, they need to stay out of the penalty box. These penalties are killing them. Friday night, while penalty killing Stahl scored. Last night while they were down 2-1, with 2:36 left, Bonk takes a STUPID penalty.

Come on guys, do you honestly believe you have SUPERSTARS that can score more goals while penalty killing? WAKE UP.

anyways, I can't wait to see the atmosphere tomorrow night.