One things about bars in Quebec... Cheap drinks. 

This is what the competition rooms looked like. In the red SE T-Shirt there's Bob our Super-L3373-7YP3R (Super leet typer). He's getting warmed up in this pic I think. 

Apparently one of the Lan Games used in the competition was "Typing of The Dead". I don't know about you but it boggled my mind, hats off to Bob that gave us the second highest score in the game dispite the french keyboards. 

This would be "Pit stop" for our group where we chilled while we where slotted into events. 

I really wonder why the tickets are worth 1.87 (1/2) dollars.
Yes they have 1/2 a cent as part of the value. 

I don't know what this member of our group was doing... I'm not even gonna try to explain this one.

Only in Quebec will you find a change machine right next to a Cigarette machine and a Chocolate vending machine... Poor little Timmy's gonna have to decide against sweets or smokes. 

On the way back we had a quick stop over in Montreal, here's Brian giving the waitress bags of relishes as part of the tip... (Brian also wrote strange comments on a arrow shaped post it) 

After a long game at CSGames some of us can think of nothing better than to get some shut eye... here's to an excellent next year! 

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Post type: Rant

MSN network down again?

It seem that every so often MSN decides it's users don't need to talk to each other anymore and they need a time out. So they lock down their network.

This is one of the main reason's I wish my friends switched over the the ICQ network. Their protocol hasn't changed since 1998, and the reason is it doesn't need to change. Unlike MSN which most people download these days cause emoticons are just the most crucial feature to have.

And what about jabber, it's a good alternative to this MS.

ICQ back before 2000 had one major feature that made MSN more prefereable than it. ICQ stored contact lists locally, where MSN kept the contact lists on their server. This meant that alot of ICQ users upon logging on to their accounts on another computer or, after a freshly formatted computer lost their contact list.

However since then ICQ also stores their contact list server side so there should be no excuse, not to switch back right? but at this point MSN has already aquired millions of users and ICQ at the time with their much more complex client could only hold on to the more expert users. Not to mention at the time before broadband MSN being less than 1MB and ICQ bein more than 4MB was a big deal as well.

Even to this day the ICQ interface is not as good as it could be. Admittedly the new MSN interface is not much better.

Personally I'm using trillian mainly cause it's tried and true when it comes to IM and it allows me to integerate all the networks but since switching to trillian I've noticed that the MSN network goes down way more often then the ICQ network.