Dave Lachapelle

So, I’ve been insanely busy the last few weeks, and haven’t taken any time out of my busy schedule to write anything of interest here. I’ve been really busy with work and life, but I won’t bore you with the details of that…

I will however, take a few seconds to introduce a project I’ve decided to work on (as if I wasn’t busy enough already). As you know, I play WoW fairly regularly (World of Warcraft for those un-educated). There are many resources for the game, and a LOT of addons amongst various sites. Keeping your addons up-to-date unfortunately can be quite the chore, and so some wonderful people over at WoWAce (www.wowace.com), have written a small program to search through their site and find updated addons. Unfortunately, they wrote it in .Net, which obviously doesn’t help us Mac users out there. In comes the Java WoWUpdater: http://sourceforge.net/projects/javawowupdater a small project I’ve taken on, to port the WoWAce Updater to Java allowing it to be truly cross-platform.

I’ll keep you all posted on my progress, but for now there isn’t much to show or tell. If anyone’s interested in helping me out on this project, and knows anything about UI design or Swing, I’d be most appreciative of the help.

Well thats it for now, have fun everyone!

J.

Very recently i have come to a shocking conclusion about Guelph’s supposedly acclaimed transit system. As a pre-cursor to this whole rant, I would just like to state that these are my own experiences, however, they are mirrored by others that I know. It would appear, to the majority of people I know, that Guelph Transit thinks their transit system is too convenient for the general public, and thus have gone out of their way to inconvenience passengers.

As can be seen on the Guelph Transit Website:

Beginning September 2, 2007, Guelph Transit changes its scheduled 30 minute service to 40 minute service, Monday to Friday during peak hours on all regular base routes*.

The asterisk refers to this bit of text:

* Regular base routes: 1 Woodlawn; 3 Waterloo/Fife; 4 York Road;
6 Auden/Eastview; 7 St. Joseph’s; 8 General Hospital; 9 Stone Rd. Mall;
10 College/Niska; 22 Conestoga; 23 Paisley/Imperial; 24 Industrial; 51 Gordon;
52 University/Kortright; 61 Victor Davis

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So, I haven’t been to the zoo for quite a while, many years in fact. Tania and I, this past week, decided to take Tania’s niece to the Toronto Zoo and we had a blast. She’s such a little cutie and so smart. I also enjoyed walking around for the day, reminded me a lot of my childhood, going to the zoo with my parents and looking at all the animals.

Anyway, thats it for now, been super busy this past week, and going back to work tomorrow.

So, last night at 7:45pm, I completed the last exam I will ever have to write for school. 100 multiple choice questions, 45 minutes and I’m now finished my degree. I can honestly say that it feels like a great weight has been lifted, and I’m finally done school. All I need to do now is wait for that piece of paper to come in the mail that says “you’re smart”. That brings me into the whole topic of education, and my particularly “interesting” views on it…

So, now that I am an edumacated individual, I believe I can offer a few insights into our education system, and trust me when I say, it does work for the majority of people, however subjective it may seem. A lot of people seem to focus on the material aspects of education, and say that exams, tests and essays are all too subjective, and based on the professor’s opinions. While I agree with this viewpoint, I don’t believe that people look at education in the correct light. From my perspective, I believe that school in general doesn’t aim to spoon feed you information, the whole purpose of the education system is to teach you to learn.

Learning is something you do throughout your life, and learning to learn is probably one of the hardest things anyone can accomplish. I’m not saying that I now know the best way to learn, but I have learned how I best learn and how I can best segment and digest information. To that end, I thank all the professors and teachers I’ve had throughout my life, who all pressured me with deadlines and seemingly impossible projects, you didn’t teach me anything I didn’t learn on my own, but you taught me how to manage my time and how to best condense information into a manageable fashion.

So, such is my first post on my blog… I’m still trying to get the hang of this whole blogging thing, but will try and post on various topics throughout the course of this blog, and hopefully I can learn to blog a little better as time goes on .

Welcome to my new and improved website.  As I’m busy currently studying for finals, I don’t really have time to do too much to it.  I intend on adding more content and changing the theme as time progresses, if anything is broken, feel free to let me know.