Israeli attack carefully planned?
The US recently expedited a shipment of precision bombs to Israel as a result of the attacks on Lebanon. The shipment is a result of a multi-million dollar deal that the US made with Israel last year where Israel can “draw on as needed”. In an attempt to show that the US doesn’t favour Israel ...
Inconsiderate ignorance
I have been reading through CNN anchor Anderson Cooper’s blog, and he asked his viewers to share their comments. I couldn’t believe the inconsiderate ignorance of most Americans who responded to his article. In general, most of the respondants seem to think that Israel is “doing the right thing” and all terrorists in the world ...
The Straight Dope
A while back my buddy Tim introduced me to “The Straight Dope“. It’s a newspaper column by Cecil Adams where he answers factual question asked by his readers on ANY topic. Cecil himself is a mysterious person. His website claims he’s the world’s most intelligent human being and he also claims that he’s never had ...
Justified response?
Israel’s death toll: 24 people killed (including 12 civilians) Lebanon’s death toll: ~150 people killed (Mostly civilians, including 7 Canadians vacationing) Entire apartment buildings have been reduced to rubble. Is the IDF trying to use scare tactics to intimidate militant groups? I don’t think it will deter the enemy, it will grow the enemy. Update: ...
Household wind turbines and Sin City 2
In my Internet surfing tonight I came across a Texas-based company called Mag-Wind that has invented a vertical axis wind turbine intended to generate enough power to power a single household, thus creating green energy and eliminating the need for people to rely on supplied electricity. Although I think the principle of this is a ...
Israel attacks Lebanon 6
Israel is going down the path of starting a major war in the Middle East by invading Lebanon in a response to an attack/abduction on Israeli soldiers by the militant group Hezbollah. Israel was already busy on the Palestinian front with invasions as a response to an another soldier abduction last week by a Palistinian ...
Microsoft censures PHP
I was in MSN Messenger today and I attempted to send a link to a coworker with “download.php” in the URL. The MSN message didn’t go through, no error was received, it just didn’t send. So just for fun I changed it to “download.asp” and the message went through properly. So to take it one ...
Bombay train bombing
Trains and public transportation systems have been an easy target in recent years. Today a cowardly act on Bombay (Mumbai) India’s train system killed close to 200 innocent civilians. The bombings on the London subway system a year ago killed 52 people and the bombing in Madrid, Spain on March 11, 2004 killed 192 people. ...
Toronto West Don Lands 1
In 2001, the City of Toronto formed the Toronto Waterfront Revitalization Corporation (TWRC) with a mandate to revitalize Toronto’s waterfront in phases. Everybody in Toronto is aware of the huge potential that the Toronto waterfront has, but nobody has done anything about it yet. It’s amazing that it has taken this long for a city ...
Mrs. USA pageant 3
So I “Googled” my best buddy from elementary school whom I grew up with and share many fond memories. I found out that my buddy Jaz Hayden is married to Mrs. Texas, Jennifer Hayden. As cousin Geoff would say, not bad yerself! I had never heard about it before, but the Mrs. USA pageant is ...