Friday, July 25th, 2008

I’m not one who can say they have good penmanship. In fact, my standard speed scrawl is fairly illegible; often even to me. If I slow way down and draw my character forms deliberately things look pretty good but it takes me forever to write anything. This level of penmanship is saved only for Hallmark [...]

Saturday, December 8th, 2007

Google maps has recently added public transit routes for select cities. Instead of driving directions you can switch to directions including walking and public transit! This news is very exciting to me for a couple of reasons.
Firstly, Toronto is a nightmare to try and navigate if you need anything more than a simple subway trip [...]

Sunday, November 11th, 2007

A solitary trumpet rings out the first notes of the Last Post…
Involuntarily I rise to my feet, heart swelling with pride and thoughts quiet.
We are proud and free. O Canada we stand on guard for thee.
Lest we forget.

Saturday, September 29th, 2007

Anybody who buys books from Chapters, Amazon, etc. knows that here in Canada the cost of a book is a fixed amount more than the US price. A quick check of the last paperback I purchased shows a disparity of 50%! That means an exchange rate of 50% from US to CDN where the actual [...]

Sunday, September 9th, 2007

The Internet abounds with information about the United States of America since the US contains the largest portion of its population. Most of the news sites that I read (primarily Reddit and Digg) talk of American politics and not much else.
Over the last year or so focus has turned to the coming election and the [...]

Tuesday, August 7th, 2007

All joking aside what good are pennies!? Very few people use them these days and I have it on good authority that only old people dig through their change purse for them. The rest of us pay with a sufficient bill and dump the resulting metal into a bin at home. I, personally, don’t even [...]

Tuesday, February 27th, 2007

I’m pretty sure I’ve mentioned it before but I have a moderate tendency toward procrastination. It is worse for some things than others but you can hardly blame me for wanting to put off vacuuming or doing the dishes. When it comes to work, and those things like it (exercise), I am not quite so [...]