Archives for "March, 2006"

Posted by matt kiazyk on 22nd March 2006

The Da Vinci Code – Finally in Paperback

Sweet…
Found out a couple of days ago that The Da Vinci Code is finally coming out to paper back on March 28th. I was wanting to read this book, but again was too cheap to buy the hardcover. I have all the other Dan Brown novels except for this one.  As the movie is coming [...]

Posted by matt kiazyk on 19th March 2006

Why you should always have 2 sets of Keys

Dearest people of the world:
If you lock your keys in the car…while it’s running…always make sure you have an extra set somewhere. Oh and if you have cellphone, make sure you actually have that with you to call to get that extra set of keys.
-Matt (March 2006)
Yep. That was my night tonight. I was on [...]

Posted by matt kiazyk on 19th March 2006

No wonder Calgary is so rich!

This past Thursday I came home to a letter from the Condo people indicating that parking restrictions will now come into effect on our street in the next couple of weeks. Basically because we live so close to the train station, during the week, the station parking lot immediately becomes full by 8 am and [...]

Posted by matt kiazyk on 16th March 2006

Online 3D FPS

Came across this today on digg. It’s a full-fledge First person shooter (FPS) built entirely with shockwave flash.

Seriously.
This looks just as good as any simple FPS out there a couple of years ago and it runs entirely on the web. Like any normal FPS, there’s bots in the game that provide a little challenge, plus [...]

Posted by matt kiazyk on 11th March 2006

A 1/4 Century Later…

Yes…25 years and one day ago, a little Matt was born into this world!
My 25th birthday was on Thursday and somehow I knew this years birthday would be a little different. First of all, let’s go back one more day to Wednesday.
Wednesday: I got a phone call at 7:45 am at work from Lisa in [...]