Snow also other stuff

As soon as I got on the road last Friday, snow decided to fall profusely. The only way I could see through the snow was to turn off my headlights and let daytime running lights light up the road and not the falling snow. In driver's ed. they tell you to not turn on the high beams when it's foggy, you shouldn't do it when it's snowing hard either. You'll see thousands of snow flakes rushing at you at 70mph. Although you should go try it next time, it's really fun to see. Just don't do it when there are other cars next to you. Also, don't reach into your pocket for your BlackBerry and take a picture while driving.

And now what I didn't like about the State of the Union Adress:

1. Way to put blame on the congress and take focus off yourself.
2. Terrorists don't "despise" freedom. Terrorism is the expression of one's freedom. Example
3. Way to blame the ineptness of the government on the "empowerment" of citizens.
4. That's an ugly tie.
5. One year ago, people imagined that Iraq would be done.
6. Way to give false hope to defeat Al Qaeda.
7. If it were up to dubya, there'd be more troops in Iraq. "You will have all you need to protect our nation" means you will receive more reinforcements.
8. More military spending! Hooray!
   
9. Seems like the US is at the same point as they were back in 2001.
10. Way to try to portray Iran as a totalitarian state. Iranians vote for their president and congress like Americans do.
11. Buy crops from developing worlds but things made in USA are best? No?
12. "...enrich uranium that could be used to make nuclear weapons..."
    
13. Hiring preference for military spouses in the federal government? Good thing no one really does any real important work there.
14. Laura Bush is scary looking.
    

RIM Internship

My RIM(read "Blackberry") offer package supposedly was shipped today. Supposedly because it only took them a day to prepare it after I emailed them asking about it 2 weeks after the verbal offer. I'll be there(Kanata) for 8 months starting in January. It'll give me some good experiences in working in a more structured environment compared to what I do right now which is pure chaos. I'll try to document it as we go!

Free Blackberry you say? RIM gives a Blackberry to every emplyee. It'll be the first one I ever touch and I'll look forward to... critique it. I don't see why people have to call them Blackberries. Is "smart phone" not good enough for it? I don't see what the big deal is about Blackberries, just as I don't see the big deal with IPods(haven't touched one ever). I tried to use Blackberry Enterprise Server(BES) at work and it was not fun. 10 years ago, when Starcraft came out, 2 people with the same CD-Key couldn't log on Battle.net at the same time. RIM could have learned something from that. When 2 BES with the same ID come online at the same time, RIM will lock out the ID and you have to call your wireless provider to unlock them. Retarded. It seems that no one there has ever played Starcraft.

And what the hell is with Microsoft not making Office Live Small Business available in Canada?! I know Canada is 10 years behind in e-commerce but come on!