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February 28th, 2010 | 
Author: A series of operations are getting underway this week at home with the basic goal of simplifying our cluttered home life.
We have a lot of “stuff”. Far too much stuff and it’s all over the house. We’ve finally reached breaking point and it’s time we all un-learned some bad habits. In the process, the stuff is going to be culled. Mercilessly.
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There’s nothing like a weekend spent with friends to re-energize a guy. Even better when it’s spent with friends that you’ve never met.
No, I haven’t been drinking. Well, not a lot. I’m talking about turning online friends into real friends:
I’m not a fan of the Olympics. I’m not sure that that really needs to be said here, but I’ll throw that out there anyway.
Be that as it may, I parked my behind on the couch last night to watch the opening ceremonies. It’s always a good show and I was curious to see how they’d present Canada to the world.
The forecast was just for flurries, but it’s been snowing like crazy since I got to work this morning.
Here’s the Union Street webcam on campus for a live peek: Read the rest of this entry »
I had no idea that book piracy was so prevalent. Music pirates are pikers by comparison:
Hot on the heels of the story in Publisher’s Weekly that “publishers could be losing out on as much $3 billion to online book piracy” comes a sudden realization of a much larger threat to the viability of the book industry.
From what we’ve been able to piece together, the book “lending” takes place in “libraries”. On entering one of these dens, patrons may view a dazzling array of books, periodicals, even CDs and DVDs, all available to anyone willing to disclose valuable personal information in exchange for a “card”.
Too bad it doesn’t exist any more.
You may have heard the outrageous story last week about a school vice-principal wetting his pants in terror and calling the bomb squad upon seeing an 11-year-old student’s electronic project? No, I’m not kidding. At a so-called technology magnet school. That’s bad enough, but the kid and his parents are now supposed to get “counselling” for, presumably, daring to let their child think for himself and experiment.
Murilee Martin posted a wonderful reminiscence of a prank that he pulled in high school that amounted to much the same effect: bomb squad and evacuated school. But for a notable exception: Read the rest of this entry »