Paul Romein

From the article: Facebook sometimes makes very curious decisions with respect to user privacy. Recently, one of them came to my attention, and it is so comprehensively wrong that I had to put up a public service announcement about it. You’ve seen the Facebook “Like” buttons all over the Internet, right? Liking anything lets the owner [...]

Jason brought home a Canon PowerShot SD4000, which I’ve been dying to purchase ever since he showed it to me!  It’s basically the super version of my Canon PowerShot SD1000.  The major feature that everyone’s excited about is it’s ability to shoot at 240fps (frames per second)!  The following is a reel of us playing [...]

This evening, Mike and I went down to Coquitlam Center to watch How To Train Your Dragon on the Drive-In screen!  The evening was a bit of a novelty, as it's not very oftem we get to go to Drive-In's.  The big screen was setup on the roof where the roof-parking is, and facing out for all to see!  We got there relatively early...

August 16, 2009 Car show: 10:00am – 4:00pm Entertainment until 6:00pm Hosted by the Port Coquitlam Business Improvement Association, Port Coquitlam’s Downtown Car Show provides visitors an incredible opportunity to see a range of unique, vintage and custom vehicles as over 300 cars, trucks and motorcycles line the downtown streets. Admission is Free. For more [...]

When my Windows XP “server” stopped working yesterday, instead of spending the time repairing the OS, I decided to split the C: drive in half and setup an Ubuntu dual-boot!  I’ll get around to fixing (or re-installing) Windows XP later when I get some time. I’ve always wanted to setup Linux as my file server [...]

Mike and I set out from my place in Port Coquitlam at 4:40am, and drove all the way past Chilliwack and down some back-roads. We turned off onto the Chilliwack-Foley Forest Service Road at 6:10am. Now, I did my research on how to get to this hike, and I found very strong recommendations about using [...]

Made for the 2009 MTV Movie Awards. Featuring Will Ferrell and JJ Abrams. Originally Aired 5/31/09

I found an awesome website where people come and post trip reports on hikes they’ve just done, and I had to jump on board. From their homepage: “Clubtread is an online community dedicated to the outdoors. We are a group of outdoors enthusiasts who get together online to share ideas, trip reports, photographs, and advice. [...]

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