Code and music

It's been a regular day of coding here. Setting up test databases of test data for testing code, formulas and verifying hand calculations. Fun times.
In those lull times of thought and being stuck on a problem I've been looking at getting my dev server at home back up and running. It's a very, very old Dell I purchased when I first stated working at Mountain Cablevision on the employee 0% interest computer plan, which was a great deal at the time and I wish Shaw had something like this.
The system started to bug out the other day and display a lot of random ASCII on the screen. It boots, I/O works, I can make out the BIOS but it's toast, well the video at least.
At this point enter Les, who has a bunch of old computers parts and that now ohh so hard to find PCI video card that still works and he's willing to swap for some old iMac parts I have. Good trade.
So hopefully as of Saturday I will have an operational development server working at home again and I can fill my life with more code. Why? Well as usual in the words of Bauldrick "excuse me sir, I have a cunning plan."

With all of this I'm getting bored of the music I'm listening to while coding. Grooveshark is my usual go to place while at work. Feel free to shoot me some recommendations on something new or different to listen to while coding away if you like. No whale sounds please, I've already got the best of album.

Well that's my mind dump for now. I suppose there will be something interesting coming up soon as I dive into setting up the server.

Ford concept cars

Last night I was hunting for a cheap used car on a budget with Dan and we came across two amazing oddities at the Hyundai dealership at Parkdale and Barton st E. in Hamilton.( http://www.hyundaiinhamilton.com/ )

They had on display a 1996 Ford Lynx styled by Ghia and a 1986 Ford Via style by Ghia.
Simply amazing to see these old classic concept cars still around and being loved and cared for and out in the open for the general public to see. I have to hand it to the owner of the Hyundai dealership for being both a Ghia fan and keeping them out there for all to enjoy, good job man!

Though I'm an idiot for completely forgetting to take some pictures of them, it was dark and they were inside the building so they probably wouldn't have turned out very good anyway.
Maybe on a nice day I can grab some personal pictures of them if they let me in to check them out.
If I'm in the right place at the right time maybe I could snag a quick sit down in them for a photo op. I can dream right?

If anyone knows the owner of the dealership I definitely won't turn down an opportunity to get inside those cars!

So with all that I'll post some images of what they do look like.

This is the 1996 Ford Lynx Ghia.
Image lovingly used from ( http://www.carstyling.ru/en/car/1996_ford_lynx/images/7065/ )
Go there for more pictures of what it looks like.

And this is the 1986 Ford Via Ghia
Image lovingly used from ( http://www.motorstown.com/56563-ghia-via.html )
Go there for more pictures of what it looks like.

Shopping for cars on a tight budget is definitely not my favourite task but seeing these fantastic cars really made the night out looking for a cheap car worth it.

That's it for now.
-Colin.

OBDII

I received my OBDII BlueTooth scanner in the mail! $10, free shipping and 12 days from Hong Kong and I can now scan the car and get any data from it.
The best part is shopping for a car. I'm looking for a cheap car to take to work every day and being able to take it for a test drive and hook this up and use my phone to check for any fault codes and general stats is great!
Not a bad investment for $10CAD!