A pilot was a passenger on Alaska Airlines Flt.536 out of Seattle when there was a loud pop and cabin decompression occurred.

Thing is, he had a camera, and he has a blog.
The plane landed safely, and according to Jeff Jarvis of Buzz Machine, pilot and blogger Jeremy Hermanns posted about the incident and put up [...]

Recently I read somewhere that China employs 45 thousand people full time to monitor the internet.
Over Christmas, The Sydney Herald carried an interesting article on China’s bloggers.

But with anything between 2 million and 8 million active web logs, Chinese blogging has moved far beyond vicarious sex into important political issues. “Mu Zimei showed me what [...]

It’s been a hard couple of days for people I care about.

I got a phone call yesterday from a friend who had just taken his wife into emergency.
She is a nurse, he was a pharmacist. They were concerned she was experiencing tia.’s, after vision problems started Christmas night.

It was a long afternoon. His wife will [...]

Mike Klander is a executive in the Liberal Party in Canada, one of the Ontario senior liberal attack dogs, and the riding president in Toronto Danforth, who has really pulled a nasty one.
Klander set up a blog. Then he made a racial slur against his candidates (Tony Ianno) conservative opponent on his blog.
No one is [...]

Don’t expect too much of Christmas Day. You can’t crowd into it any arrears of unselfishness and kindliness that may have accrued during the past twelve months. Oren Arnold

God, this is Your season.
Enable each visitor to this blog to see Your goodness.
Quicken each one who stops at this blog, they are appreciated and welcome.
Rid each [...]

looking back…looking forward
Quartus
I don’t understand why they are so upset!
We don’t have the money to pay for the doctors.
(That’s why the hospital emergency rooms are closing.)
We don’t have the money to pay for the books.
(That’s why the schools need to be amalgamated.)
We can’t afford to look at each person as an individual.
(That’s why we practice [...]

A US evangelical organization called Jews for Jesus is suing Google.
Really. You can’t make this stuff up.

Christian evangelical group Jews for Jesus is suing Google Inc., saying a Web log hosted through the Internet search leader’s Blogspot service infringes its trademark.

The suit, filed in U.S. District Court in New York on Wednesday, seeks to force [...]

This from the Toronto Star blog:

After a single Quebec father of three was fired from his job at Zellers for taking discarded chocolate bars from a garbage bin at a St-Hyacinthe story, the media understandably swarmed on the heartbreaking story.

Guy Masse, 47, had, after all, just gotten off of welfare and had hoped to give [...]