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About Thoughts From My Life

Written by Neil Galloway

This site is essentially a notebook of my financial ramblings, photography, computer, and other ideas. As I learn something new or interesting and spend a bit of time on it, I have been posting it to this site. Hopefully it will bring up some discussion or other useful tips and I can even get a few bucks off my Google ads.

If you are wondering what my banner is about, I just picked a photo I liked from my collection. It is from some of the fall leaves along the street in a district of Edmonton, Alberta. Looked nice against the blue sky.

About Me

I am a software engineer in Canada who has an interest in investing and financial matters for the average person. I have read the get rich quick schemes, investing strategies, and a whole set of other methods and am just trying to find the right mix for myself.

I have an avid interest in photography and also go on some sort of trip (usually overseas) at least once a year.

I'm married to a gorgeous, young gal from the west coast of Canada. We tied the knot on April 1, 2005, on Vancouver Island. She is a junior high school French immersion teacher who teaches math and sciences (she teaches math and science but the language used in the class is French).

Here is a picture of my wife and I and you can find out more about me on my personal blog.

Reverse Chronology of My Life

2011 - Travel plans not set yet. We are expecting our first child in the fall.
2010 - Traveled to Europe and Israel
2009 - Traveled to India, Nepal, Sri Lanka, and Hong Kong. We went to Hawai in the spring as well.
2008 - Working away on the blog. Had my first $200 month with Adsense. Went to New York for 5 days and the summer trip was Egypt, Jordan, Syria, and Turkey (Cairo to Istanbul).
2007 - Really got going on this blog. Went to Quebec for 4 days and did a trip of Russia, Mongolia, and ending in China on the Trans-Siberian railway.
2006 - Trip of Eastern Africa with Cheryl, my sister Janis, Cheryl's sister Shawna and her husband Scott.
2005 - Married the love of my life. 7 years since I moved out of home and around 20 roommates later, my bachelor life was officially over. Went to Cuba (honeymoon), then Ecuador and Peru.
2004 - Went to South East Asia for 2 months with my cousin Lisa. Came back and moved in with Richard, Shab, and Jesse. Bought my first house as well.
2003 - Graduated from university and got my first full time job at Pason Systems. Moved in with James.
2002 - Can't think of much. Scott slept on the futon for 4 months until Bruce moved out.
2001 - Started dating Cheryl. Lived in Calgary for 8 months on a work term. I lived in a house with a revolving door of roommates (Ryan, Regan, Mark, Blake, Tom, Rod, Shawn, Brian, Kalen). Bruce moved in with me this year in Edmonton.
2000 - Lived in Cold Lake, Alberta. One of the best summer jobs I ever had.
1999 - First summer job. Kreg was my new roommate in the fall.
1998 - Graduated high school and moved to Edmonton to attend the University of Alberta. Brendan was my first ever roommate.
1997 - Decided to pick Engineering for my application to University.

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Category: Blogging

Original Post: Monday, November 5th, 2007

6 Comments

valentine Says:
2008-04-30 12:11:29
hi my name is valentine i caould really use yur help, i have this site, though its new but i eally need more support , someone who can at least fairly updates the site current news, Seeing your page made me to believe you can help me updates at the homebrew section of the site, so if you really can help me i will be much grateful

Scott Harrington Says:
2008-07-28 07:40:29
Neil ... THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU for your ramblings on OpenGL and VC# ... I, too, am dabbling in beginning game programming using VC++ and I could not get a simple messagebox to pop up until I changed the character setting configuration - don't fully understand it yet, but it all works now!

~ Scott

hemant Says:
2009-03-13 02:06:50
i will do my best

Dean Sewell Says:
2009-03-26 14:03:28
Am trying to install XP on a Acer Extensa 5420 laptop for a friend. Problem being I did not record NIC card ( or anyother hardware device names/models) before zapping Vista partition. Could you please send me the NIC card desp so I can get on the internet to finish driver updates? Thanks

nidhi Says:
2011-01-14 04:18:10
1>Embedding manifest...
1>.\Debug\s.exe.intermediate.manifest : general error c1010070: Failed to load and parse the manifest. The system cannot find the file specified.
1>Build log was saved at "file://c:\Users\nidhi\Documents\Visual Studio 2008\Projects\s\s\Debug\BuildLog.htm"
1>s - 1 error(s), 0 warning(s)
========== Build: 0 succeeded, 1 failed, 0 up-to-date, 0 skipped ==========

sudhir Says:
2011-03-26 05:31:13
Dear Sir,

I refered the information given by you at the link
http://thoughtsfrommylife.com/article-748-OpenGL_and_Visual_Studio_Express_2008#firstproject#firstproject.

While doing a project i got the same errors that you mentioned. Your information helped me to solve the errors. In the same system, i created another project
and just copied same code the pasted it in the second project and build. Before building, i did the necessary property settings that you mentioned. Even then

i am getting the following errors.
1>Linking...
1>scrprg.obj : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol _auxDIBImageLoadA@4 referenced in function "struct _AUX_RGBImageRec * __cdecl LoadBMP(char *)" (?LoadBMP@@YAPAU_AUX_RGBImageRec@@PAD@Z)
1>C:\Documents and Settings\student\My Documents\Visual Studio 2008\Projects\ysr3prj\Debug\ysr3prj.exe : fatal error LNK1120: 1 unresolved externals
1>Build log was saved at "file://c:\Documents and Settings\student\My Documents\Visual Studio 2008\Projects\ysr3prj\ysr3prj\Debug\BuildLog.htm"
1>ysr3prj - 2 error(s), 1 warning(s)
========== Rebuild All: 0 succeeded, 1 failed, 0 skipped ==========

I tried all method you have mentioned. But i could not solve.Could you please help me

Thanking you
Sudhir Rao