Sebastien St-Laurent's (AKA Sebby) WebLog

Found the following article about bipolar cycles. From my reading, this applies to all cases but is even more apparent when dealing with less obvious forms of bipolar such as Bipolar 2 and Rapid Cycling. Diagnosies are made on the basis of the DSM...

The last buyers to back out from the sale of our townhouse did so about 4-5 days before closing when they technically had exhausted their "standard" (and valid) options to back out. So until now we have refused to sign them out of the deal. The main reason...

Items are selling like hotcakes. Thanks for everyone who has been supporting me so far. I will be listing some new items this weekend when I have a chance to go through the garage. Today has been spend mostly dealing with some more Raid data recovery...

I still have been getting sporadic joint pain mostly in my arms and knees. This has started about 2 months ago, about a few weeks after I started taking my Depakote ER. So far, the Dr says he doesn't know why and that it isn't a side-effect he knows of...

Yay, a technical post. It's been a while since I wrote one of those. Been working on EasyBarcode 2.0 and working on the export functionality. One important part of generating barcodes is the ability to export to vector based files so the barcodes can...

Using UFS Explorer , I was able to recover about 90% if ny data. Unfortunately, some of it could not be recovered. Two folders just contained way too many files for the program to handle and would run out of memory. I was told by the author that he...

With a second edition of Practical .NET 2 and C# 2 comming up in the next few months I have been pondering what I will do with the remaining inventory of the first edition. With the current inventory, and the current rate of sale, I expect to have...

Not sure if its joyful or not. Its 3:30 am in my office, with no lights out and no noise. In a way, it's probably the best environment to get anything done. But with 3 days to do before I head back to work, i'll definetly have to break this cycle....

My ex-boss, Steve Lacey, who now works at Google posted an interesting tidbit about VC's (Venture Capitalists). ARTICLE HERE. "So, apparently there’s an event in New England where Venture Capitalists go and ski and entrepreneurs can pitch to them if...

For all my data (or at least most of it), i've been storing it on a Buffalo TeraStation which is essentially setup as a Raid-5 NAS. So generally, unless something catastrophic happens, well the data is safe. Well, the lest of the expected catastrophic...

Managed to find a little time to add more items to my "Garage Sale" today on eBay. Not as many items as I would have liked to list but my main computer is dragging because of the data copy from my Raid array. So at least everything is progressing. Here...

After the success of ShaderX, the ShaderX2 books, ShaderX3, ShaderX4 (Game developer frontline award) and ShaderX5, we are looking for authors for ShaderX6. The book will cover advanced rendering techniques that run on the DirectX and/or OpenGL run-time...

Here are the new items I listed today, eh (looking at the clock) well yesterday... The Essential 55 Workbook by Ron Clark (2004) US $5.49 Parables from the Back Side (2005) US $5.99 ...

Yay! That sure took forever! Finally managed to get all the data copied to my main PC. Took a little over a week of trial and error to get the whole process done. So essentiallyh a whole week where I had no data access and probably more importantly, the...

Well, in my case it is more of an inventory clearance. With my book retail on http://www.ParadoxalPress.com , i've accumulated a certain amount of inventory over the past 1 1/2 years. Although my initial plan was to list it on my website and other market...

One of the things i've been fiddling with during my off time is working on Version 2.0 of EasyBarcode. Version 1.x was focused only on ISBN/Booklan barcodes. However the new version will add support for most common 1D barcdode symbologies as well as a...

Taking advantage of some of my time off, i've started writing out a more formal business plan for Paradoxal Press . From a general business point of view, most of the business plan details (what I want to do, where the business is heading,...) was already...

After the success of ShaderX, the ShaderX2 books, ShaderX3, ShaderX4 (Game developer frontline award) and ShaderX5, we are looking for authors for ShaderX6. The book will cover advanced rendering techniques that run on the DirectX and/or OpenGL run-time...

Well, went to the doctor to have this wierd chest pain that started last night and which was still lingering in the morning. Well they couldn't find anything wrong and just said it probably was just some random muscle cramp (which apparently Depakote...

Still having some various muscle and joint pains which has started a few days ago. Havn't done anything really straining physically so I am unsure where this all comes from. So the best bet at this point is that it would be related to the Depakote. ...

Been through my re-eval earlier today. Unless something bad comes up in my bloodwork later this week, I will be returning to work (part-time initially) starting April 2nd. The part-time return will only be for a few weeks mainly to easy me back in without...

Wow. Is it that time already? Yep, I am returning to work on April the 2nd, after almost 10 weeks off. The first few weeks were really slow going but I have to admit the past month just flew by without me realizing it! I have to admit I am still somewhat...

Been browsing around, trying to figure out what the costs of the equipment to print my own books would be. This could reduce my costs and would definetly increase my turnaround speed. Of course, with such high-end machinery, no one really posts any pricing...

Due to the small response we've had so far, I am reposting the announcement... After the success of ShaderX, the ShaderX2 books, ShaderX3, ShaderX4 (Game developer frontline award) and ShaderX5, we are looking for authors for ShaderX6. The book...

With all my posts about my TeraStation failing, I forgot to mention more information about the box in the first place. The setup itself is pretty good. The main drawback with the basic boxes is that they use IDE drives which might have an impact on...