Just ten minutes I go, I went to the Tim Horton's nearby.  I decided to order someone I haven't drank a long time ago: a chocolate ice cappucino, or ice capp, for short.

The service was slow this evening, as they were giving extra attention to a new trainee.  That's okay.  I waited.

Three customers later, I approached the counter, and I order:

-- Hi!  I'll have a small chocolate ice capp.
-- Um, what's sir?  Oh, wait, you said chocolate.  (Punches in "1 brownie.")
-- No, not a brownie, a small chocolate ice capp.
-- Oh okay, a chocolate milk.
-- No... A... Small... Chocolate... Ice... Capp.

After finally getting my ice capp, well guess what, this time she understood every but the chocolate.  It was a regular ice cappucino.

When I realised it was not what I ordered, I was already outside.  I felt like I already wasted my time and $2 on something I didn't want, I wasn't willing to spend more time in line to solve the problem.  Instead, I amused myself at splattering my ice capp down their gargage can in the parking lot.  What a mess, but more fun than arguing.

Bonne fête, Canada !

I know my busy schedule has been preventing me to write on Rémino recently, but for our nation's anniversary, I will leave you with an article on Canada.com featuring videos to make us proud:

Canada: A video tribute

Speaking with a customer:

-- I'm looking at the black. Can I have a lighter shade of black?

-- You mean gray?

The final release Mozilla Firefox 3 will be launched on June 17. (Which coincides with one of my coworkers' birthday.) For this event, Spread Firefox is encouraging people to download their copy of Firefox on that day, and help them set a Guinness world record.

I tried the latest release candidate of Firefox and I was really impressed. The interface has been refined and all the memory leaks, finally, have been patched.

If you think your browser is slow or not secure enough, even if you're running Firefox 2, I recommend you give Firefox 3 a try.

Happy downloading!

It's been a while since I wanted to do that, and this morning, I finally did.

I just added my name to the waiting list to get a Canadian flag that has flown on the Parliament.  Anyone can add their name to their list, but there's a 20-year waiting period.

Here are the instructions in English and in French.

I went to pick up my girlfriend at the oral surgeon's office. When she was ready, the secretary called a cab from Blue Line and I waited for it at the front.

Ten minutes later, he arrived. I just barely informed the secretary about his arrival that he asks out loud, "What's the matter? You're not ready yet?"

I told him to hold on as they are helping out my girlfriend. I walked back to the office's front door, located at three or four meters from the cab's side door and peeked inside when the driver started honking. "Hurry up! I'm blocking traffic!"

It took almost an entire 60 seconds to bring out my girlfriend. That's right. The driver couldn't wait a minute.

Excerpt from MacRumorsLive.com's live WWDC 2008 coverage:

I'm not comfortable telling everyone on Facebook what I'm doing, and they're encouraging users to leave a log of there whereabouts using GPS tracking? That's insane; simply too much. Unfortunately, a lot of suckers will fall for it and then complain about privacy issues.

The non-talkative roommate has spoken. He doesn't talk a lot, except when it's to complain.

The guy comes back home. I say hi and he replies, "Do you have a problem with the pink ribbon I put outside?"

A few homes have a pink ribbon set at their front. I thought it was some breast cancer activist coming around and putting those anywhere he or she wanted. In a market of ideas like any big city, one can expect anything. Since the pink ribbon is fixed to our home, and technically we're not allowed to put such things up, I took it down... Twice. I was a bit annoyed by this and I thought if an activist wanted to show his or her opinion, that the person do it on public property instead.

There was the annoying roommate just abruptly implying I'm stupid, ignorant, and without respect. "Do you know why it's there?" "No," I said. "Well, haven't you seen the ribbon on the other houses?" Yes, I did, and I wasn't sure what exactly it was for. "Don't you know anything?" "Your point," I urged.

Apparently, there's another "run for the cure" happening soon. Yes, another one. It seems people getting cancer is the perfect excuse for healthy people to stay in shape. If only cancer could be cured by running, it would have been cured a long time ago. I always thought the whole "breast cancer" hype is a nice socially-accepted manner to talk about breasts without actually doing so. Why no one is running for skin cancer, lung cancer, colon cancer, or prostate cancer? They're not worth our attention? They don't sound sexy, that's why. Cancer is cancer. It kills no matter where or who it is. Believe it or not, men can also have breast cancer. But they don't count, do they? Anyone can live without breasts, but try living without a brain for a day. If you ask me, all that running is a real joke, even an insult to all of those who has any type of cancer. Think of it this way: how would you feel if you're being diagnosed with cancer and one of your family members comes to you and say, "Hang it there. I'll run for you!" "I dying, you fucking idiot! I want to spend more time with you, but there you go running away instead."

I asked him why he didn't tell me the first time I removed the damn ribbon. "Should I be responsible to tell you about everything happening in town? How about the law of gravity? This still works! Should I tell you about that too? You think by taking that ribbon down, we're all stupid and you're the smart one?" Going back to his bedroom, I just said, "That's right, go back in your room. It's for the best."

Based on http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2219/2495004994_c2bd3ca3b9_b.jpg.

Since the past few weeks, if not months, I spared some of my site to work on Rémino. The site's backend and look haven't been update since the past two or three years, so I thought it was due.

I'm just starting to roll out some changes now. Some of those changes include the following:

• No more advertisement.
• Site is now running on Drupal 5.
• Design has been redone. The fonts are now bigger and the content takes more space now, making it easier to read.
• Menus have been simplified. When checking my statistics, most people are just reading the journal. Only the items "Journal," "Topics," and "Contact" appear now. A fourth one, "Album," will come later. You may want to try "Topics" to find the pages previously linked in the menus. The Search feature also works better than before, so if you need help finding something, I suggest you give it a try.
• Multilingual content is now seperate. No more mix of Japanese and French in the English journal. If you want to see the French and Japanese entries, click on the new language links in the top-right corner. On the front page's sidebar, there are also listings of recent English, French, and Japanese entries.
• A lot of useless junk in the RSS feed has also been cleared up.
• Links to recent content on some of my other Web sites are now available at the bottom of every page.
• Better spam prevention with anti-spam services and challenge questions for user registration and comments.
• New registrations no longer need to be approved by me.
• Users may now customise their display name and avatar, both of which will be displayed in the top-right corner of every page when they log in.

There are more changes I wish to bring to Rémino by the end of year, including upgrading to Drupal 6, or possibly Drupal 7.

All accounts on the site not being accessed since more than 2 years ago have been deleted. There were dozens of spammers who tried to registered on the site and the list of users was getting clutered. The only users remaining are: yukigami, mrtouds, xmarilyn, kyoko, armand, anatole, choppers, miket, and NoMez.

This is it more. More to come in summer. Stay tuned!