I have been quite around here a lot. I have been using twitter tons nice and easy. We have been busy at work and as you saw we have a new puppy. Anyways the other thing that I have been doing a lot of is working in the backyard with the chainsaw. Today was a mini milestone in that I have all of the storm trees in the main area on the ground (except for 2 window makers).

Click the link for all the pics:
Backyard Pics

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We have a new person at Basecamp, picked her up Monday. She is a 8 week old std poodle and we love her to bits already.

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I think that the free wifi that Bell is offering at Starbucks is such a great idea. This will help link users to the Bell.ca new website, branding and also allow force (in a nice way) to link their accounts to a online profile.

Sure Rogers has the iPhone but it is not for everyone. It is a great device for sure but the Blackberry and Treo are better (well for me) to use for typing. I think that the iPhone is great to consume information but the other with a keyboard and better to create information.

Plus if your device supports wifi then you get a nice way to get data for free (huge help).

This will be an interesting project. I just wish that I could see the numbers (new users, use, etc).

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So Mozilla labs announced their winners here.

And I think that the 2 top winners are great.

Pencil will be a great tool to help people get ideas to paper (well documents).

And Read It Later is going to be a HUGE time saver for me as I normally open tons of tabs or bookmark stuff and never read it.

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WTF! Just had a bear walk by the back door like 15 feet from where I’m sitting. This is not good news.

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So after a day of wearing the watch I thought I would post some thoughts.

1st Impression
The watch feels very solid and has a super clean look to it. When I ordered this watch I wanted to try the UCN look with all the trimmings. I also wanted a day/date watch as I like that on the OM. I thought that the way the logo and day/date are on this dial was a nice clean look. The one thing that does take some time to get used to is the lack of text below 12 o’clock (this is the same with the c3).

Weight:
This is not a small watch but is not huge either. I find that it is like the OM in weight (have not weighed it yet).

Case & Bezel:
This is the first polished case I have had and at first it was a little to bling for me. But after sometime it grew on me and helps make this watch stand out from the rest. The bezel is like a safe tumbler with solid clicks and little play.

Dial & Lume:
This watch is easy to read a glance and is not cluttered up at all. I particularly like the way the hands have the black base and all line up when they pass each other.

The lume on this watch is not a bright as my others but then I have some of the brightest watches (OM, SAR, MM, Blackwater). The main reason is that the markers are not that large and the hands are narrow so it is not a fault of the lume but more the dial and hands that I picked. The other thing that was weird for me is that the second hand does not have lume on it (all my others do) so this made the watch look different when I did the first lume check. I did a test with the Blackwater last night beside it and while not as bright it kept the lume all night.

Strap:
The rubber strap that comes with the watch is nice and soft (with no vanilla smell) and has a nice mkki clasp.

Pros:
-Clean Design
-Unique Look
-Great Bezel

Cons:
-Still in lust so none yet

Here it is with the SAR and Blackwater. While it looks the same as the BW in the pic it is a much bigger and heavier watch.

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I will post more pics and a review once I get a chance.

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Well I think that I’m running 2.6 but the FTP was a little f’ed so I think that calling this a clean upgrade would be a mistake. So far all seems to be ok.

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Click the link to see why I like to work up north.

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