Permanent Resident
I am now officially a Permanent Resident of Canada.
I “landed” on Friday with my wife at Sarnia, after taking a short trip to Michigan to do some shopping.
I had been incredibly nervous about the whole thing, but it was completely painless. Took no more than 15 minutes.
My PR Confirmation form was completed and stapled into my passport, and my Goods to Follow lists were stamped. I’m now free to import the rest of my belongings – I’ll finally be able to have my computer back! I’ve missed it so much. Using a netbook for the past 2 years has slowly been driving me insane.
Now I have to apply for a Social Insurance Number and an Ontario Health Card. I’ve already filled out the SIN application so I’m ready to walk into the Service Canada office next week. Then I’ll go to Service Ontario in Lambeth to get the application form I need for a health card.
Won’t be long until I have a job again either. I’ve been out of work for over a year, and I can’t wait to get back into employment.
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Facebook’s Latest Changes
I’m really not sure why people are having such a hard time understanding the new Facebook layout. You get more information now than you did before!
You used to have 2 tabs Top Stories and Most Recent – they’ve merged them into one page. The ticker on the right shows updates AS they happen, like the Most Recent tab did. Simply hover over stories to see more detail.
Maybe people just miss the Top Stories page, which was kind of useless anyway. I always switched to Most Recent. I’m glad they did away with the 2 streams. NEW updates are definitely more important than what happened 5 hours ago. Ever hear of Twitter?
This is a change for the better IMO. Now bring on Facebook Music!
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MT Strangeness
Why would mt-check.cgi and the System Overview/Tools pages give me different results on the same installation?
In mt-check.cgi it says that some of the optional Perl modules are installed, whereas the System Overview page says they aren’t. Also it shows up an old plugin folder in the includes section that no longer exists, which isn’t there in the mt-check.cgi version.
Very confusing, and probably something to do with the errors I’m getting.
Update: Hmm, well I just checked both pages again and they’re now saying the same thing. I tried clearing my cache and logging out/back in yesterday and they were different.
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Action Streams Error
Just for reference, here is the error from Action Streams I’m getting:
Error during task 'Poll for new events': "expat_parser" is not exported by the MT::Util module Can't continue after import errors at /cgi-bin/plugins/ActionStreams/lib/ActionStreams/Event.pm line 20 BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /cgi-bin/plugins/ActionStreams/lib/ActionStreams/Event.pm line 20. Compilation failed in require at /cgi-bin/plugins/ActionStreams/lib/ActionStreams/Plugin.pm line 798.
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Thinking About WordPress
Movable Type seems to heading towards a dead end, and I’m thinking about jumping ship to the much more popular WordPress. There used to be a great community built around MT, creating plugins and helping out when things go wrong… but where are all these people now? Using WordPress!
After a few upgrades to my copy of MT and my web server, the Action Streams plugin that powers the LifeStream part of my site appears to be broken. I can’t work out how to fix it as there’s no one out there any more! Also the site search has been broken for months. I’ve hidden those sections since they’re useless until I can somehow fix them.
So I am starting to think seriously about dropping Movable Type once and for all, and install WordPress 3.2.x instead.
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Car Issues Update
I had the Air/Fuel sensors replaced back in May, and my fuel economy has much improved. I’m actually getting what the manual says I should be, so it’s certainly costing me a bit less in petrol. Although with the prices so ridiculously high in the city of London, it still hits me in the wallet… just not as often.
I have just changed insurance companies, as of yesterday.
I was paying State Farm $369 a month for auto and home insurance. When I first signed up for insurance with State Farm I have a feeling they ignored my previous 13 years driving in the UK and just went by the date I got my UK licence exchanged for an Ontario one. So after a little over a year, a couple of weeks ago I decided to start looking around for a better deal.
By using the date I actually got my licence back in the UK, I got much better quotes, and a couple of companies contacted me to get more details.
I eventually chose The Co-operators as the company I would take my business to. They offered me auto, home and life insurance for only $185 a month. This is 50% of what I was paying!
I am looking forward to having an extra $185 in my pocket every month. I could fill my tank 3 times over with it!
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