I’ve met my third blogger!!
I didn’t say anything because Caleb is running around getting a lot done before he heads back to Australia and I wasn’t too sure he’d be able to fit a stop into his agenda.
I met Caleb online a few years ago, and there was empathy. He was busy in a church [...]

There is an interesting discussion at The Revealer - well, it was an interesting discussion until a gentleman named Dan Krauss came in and used 10 dollar words to make some kind of point.
I’m all for learning, but lord love a duck, I find ponderous speech in a comment section foolish. I’d ask him to [...]

Life is strange.
Sometimes you don’t know how crummy you’ve felt until you start feeling better.
Weather is weather, you’re just supposed to suck it up.
But to be able to walk into the environment you live in, take a cool deep breath, to feel a two week headache start to ease, to not have to wipe sweat [...]

The smoke and mirrors of Australian immigration policies.

Why is the promotion about War of the Worlds all about Tom Cruise?
I saw a reasonable question at another blog today.
Why isn’t the media asking hard questions about Cruise’s statements about/around Scientology?
Because Scientology is the most litigious cult/religion/business/group most people/countries have ever run across. It’s about a policy called ‘fair game.’
More at Get Religion.
If you [...]

Visa International (the credit card people) have threatened a Malaysian blogger for using the domain name visa. com/my for his blog. (my - international code for Malaysia)
The company did own the domain name and let it lapse.
The blogger bought it.
A US legal firm contacted the blogger and told him he had 7 days to give [...]

I haven’t been at the computer much lately. I haven’t been doing much of anything lately.
I’m a Canuck through and through. When temps get above 70F I start to slow down. It’s been a hot June. While we’ve been around the mean average temperature, the humidex has been wicked.
With the early heat wave in Canada, [...]

I was unaware that Pope Benedict XVI opposed the Harry Potter books.
Now I know.
He hasn’t. The headline is not true, the Cardinal wrote some private correspondence. Not the pope.
Seeking air conditioning yesterday I went into one of the two bookstores in town and got chatting with a clerk.
This bookstore - not counting pre-sales - is [...]