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Back in Toronto

Jan

2005

I arrived back in Toronto around 3:30PM today. We were supposed to arrive last night at 10:30PM. We ended up spending the night in Chicago. We also had bad luck on the way to Puerto Rico as well; we sat at the Chicago airport for 13 hours due to airplane mechanical problems. So we only ...

Hola Puerto Rico! 3

Jan

2005

I don’t want to waste too much time on the Internet, since the weather is absolutely gorgeous out here and I want to get back to the Ocean to body surf the waves, so I’m just going to post a few pictures of the trip thus far. Most of these pictures were taken yesterday. We ...

Gone to Puerto Rico 1

Jan

2005

I’m leaving for Puerto Rico this morning, so you probably won’t hear much from me all next week.

My bizarro world 3

Jan

2005

A strange coincidence happened to me today. When I was leaving work, the battery in my Jeep was dead, so I asked a lady nearby if she could help me. She was very friendly and helpful, and spent about 15 minutes with me to get my battery charged up enough to start. I noticed that ...

Who owns your e-mail after you die? 13

Jan

2005

A recent legal fight in the U.S. raises many questions about ownership of emails after a person dies. When Lieutenant Corporal Justin Ellsworth was killed in Iraq, his father asked Yahoo! Mail to provide him Justin’s emails in order to create a memorial for his son. Yahoo refused to give up the emails due to ...

Bush cleaning house 1

Jan

2005

Not only has Bush cleaned the White House of anyone who doesn’t get on their knees (and polish his shoes ), he has now managed to get 4 CBS employees axed for running a story on 60 Minutes that questions his military records. Link to article … In other news, US columnist Armstrong Williams admitted ...

US shares blame

Jan

2005

When things are going well, the Bush Administration loves to take the solo credit for their accomplishments. But when things go wrong, they love to share the blame with others. The US mistakenly dropped a 500-pound bomb on a house early Saturday, killing at least 5 people. The BBC report calls it an “embarrassing admission ...

Abortion, right or wrong? 7

Jan

2005

I was reading an article in the Newspaper this morning about a 24-Year-old mother who has been charged with 2 counts of first degree murder for the killing of two of her infant sons. The first son was murdered 1998 when he was 7 months old, and the second murder was in 2002 when he ...

World becoming one race

Jan

2005

The last couple centuries have seen the most significant changes in technology and means of transportation. Before rapid transportation was available, races, cultures and languages were preserved and segregated geographically. In Europe, you could travel a mere 100 kilometers before unveiling a different language and completely different culture. With the many different methods of rapid ...

My Cute Jack Russell

Jan

2005

For those of you who haven’t seen my puppy, here is “Mojo”. She is a 2-year-old Jack Russell, and she looks even cuter in real life.