Archive for February, 2003



I started yesterday’s post with once upon a time. I guess I did that because even today I wish this could have had a happy ending.
But it doesn’t.
So, if you need a happy ending, skip this entry.
I mentioned the US was happy with our work. I was blissfully unaware of how happy.
Phone calls to the [...]

Consider this a journal entry and skip it if this isn’t your thing.
Once upon a time the Canadian division of a US Christian TV network was looking for a Canadian writer-researcher.
I applied and went in for the interview with the producer.
I learned there were three positions in the production end, producer, writer-researcher and editor.
The rest [...]

Badger Newfoundland looks like an apocalyptic landscape.
120 people are dead in a horrific subway fire, started by a mentally ill man.
5 million credit card holders had their information stolen after a hack in the UK.
On the home front, I’ve succumbed to whatever is floating around out there.
No blogging until I get my feet under me. [...]

While parts of the US dig out from under a snowstorm, the town of Badger in Newfoundland has been evacuated. 1200 people woke up to flooding from three rivers that backed up, causing hugh chucks of ice to smash into homes. It is not known when residents will be able to return.
Trust
A Leger Poll asked [...]

The search engine company with it’s servers and cutting edge technology has taken another step with this acquisition.
Google, which runs the Web’s premier search site, has purchased Pyra Labs, a San Francisco company that created some of the earliest technology for writing weblogs, the increasingly popular personal and opinion journals.
The buyout is a huge [...]

Joseph Farah of WorldNetDaily takes a strip out of Jeremy Lott for labelling him a conservative.
Farah goes on a rant in a letter in The American Prowler.
Lott wrote this article, Pounding Ploughshares into Swords about WorldNetDaily.
Jeremy Lott responds with a letter of his own right underneath at the Prowler. I’m not convinced with either ‘defense’.
Colby [...]

The UN is planning for 600,000 refugees in the coming war with Iraq.
Ruud Lubbers, the UN high commissioner for refugees is in Athens on a two-day visit.
“It can be more, it can be less … But let me stress that international solidarity is not only needed for that possible crisis, but also to [...]

A generous heart repairs a slanderous tongue. - Homer
Never throw mud. You may miss your mark, but you must have dirty hands. - Joseph Parker
Soft-buzzing Slander; silly moths that eat An honest name. - James Thomson
It is often better not to see an insult than to avenge it. -Seneca
Never chase a lie. Let it [...]



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