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“The notion that work is a burden is a terrible mistake.”, Katharine Hepburn
She died today at the age of 96, what a woman.

As Grant has already reported, my Mom now has her own Blog. The name is care of Dono, my Mom appreciated the suggestion…’Life Through Faith’. Welcome .

Derek wrote about the rainy Sunday today in Vancouver. He’s right. I spent a lot of it (too much) down at the Vancouver International Jazz Festival at David Lam park, right near my house. Saw some great bands including an old favourite, the Colouriffics (although not sure how to spell it so […]

Door stamp on my wrist from the Salteens performance at the Marine Club last night.
A friend of mine from University is in the band…very cool tunes.

The Dark Night Of Mother Theresa
“Friend, in the desolate time, when your soul
is enshrouded in darkness
    When, in a deep abyss, memory and feeling
die out,
Intellect timidly gropes among shadowy forms
and illusions
    Heart can no longer sigh, eye is unable
to weep;
When, from your night-clouded soul the wings
of fire have […]

The Man With No Ear
“So, facts got in the way of my plans for this column. But sometimes that’s a good thing. I do think it’s important for doves like myself to encounter Saddam’s victims like Mr. Abid Ali and their joy at being freed. Iraq today is a mess, but it’s a complex, deeply […]

Denis: A Sound Judge Of Men Who Chose A Great Woman
“Which explains why, when she was Secretary for Education, Margaret was seen one evening by the Permanent Secretary leaving the office early. She was going out, she explained, to buy bacon for Denis’s breakfast. There were, the Permanent Secretary assured her, plenty of people in […]

Been out of commission all week battling a cold gone wild. Slowly recovering here and doing better now after getting some amazingly good news…on a couple of fronts in fact. Congratulations to both…you know who you are. God works in mysterious ways.
Meanwhile on a totally opposite track…check out funny cats, and of […]

Amazon Evolves
“Perhaps this is old news, but I hadn’t seen it before: Amazon now lists products from not only itself and its zShops merchants, but other online stores (traditionally called competitors), as well. Not only that, I put something in my shopping cart, only to discover upon checkout that I was actually buying it from […]

Meg Hourihan on WMAWAW.
“Meg read my [Dave Winer] What Makes A Weblog A Weblog essay, and sent an email (from Copenhagen) explaining that I missed the fundamental difference between weblogs and everything else.
She says: “The biggest thing I keep stressing, which I think is the fundamental difference: posts vs pages. It’s about posts, chunks […]

Had a whirlwind trip to New York this week. Met Mike Tyson (after hitting him in the chest with my computer bag), saw Sheryl Crow perform at the NY public library at midnight. It was across the street from my hotel. I’m actually in this picture. She’s got a cool website […]

WatchBlog 2004
“WatchBlog is a multiple-editor weblog broken up into three major political affiliations, each with its own blog: the Democrats, the Republicans and the Third Party (covering everything outside the two major parties).
Why. Let’s face it, politics are confusing. Sometimes it’s difficult to know who to believe, who to listen to and who to support. […]

itopik has a great listing of RSS Aggregators. c/o [Ranchero.com].

Students Roil Iranian Capital in 3rd Night of Protests (free login required)
“Given the difficulty of moving about the city, beset by traffic jams and violent clashes, it was impossible to get an accurate count. But with the demonstrations stretched at least three miles from the dormitories where the first quiet protests began on Tuesday, the […]

The board of directors of llib.org has announced that they are contemplating a hostile takeover of the outstanding shares of donolog.

My Mom was commenting that I hadn’t posted to my blog much the last couple of days. The comment prompted me to do a little sprucing up and a few more posts. The general consensus among my friends is that my Mom should start her own blog too. She’s net savvy and […]

Everyone seems to be doing more work on their blogs look and feel these days. Dono helped give mine a new look and add a search function. A friend of mine in Norway, Jakob also did up some logos for llib.org. They’re great except now with the new background colour on the […]

I’m a fan of the Lord of the Rings. Of course I’ve read the books and seen the movies. The character Gollum in the recent film is a remarkable digital character. Recently Gollum ‘won’ the ‘best digital actor’ award at the MTV movie awards. His acceptance speech is worth a watch […]

Without me even realizing it the three year anniversary of the company my friends and I started zipped by this week. It was actually the official incorporation anniversary, we actually started it around February. I missed the official date probably because we were so busy releasing our latest major system and I finally […]

My mom got high speed internet today from Shaw Cable. I have to admit that the whole experience of ordering, installing and going online with them was easy and fast. I think I ordered it online on Sunday night, I booked an appointment time, they showed up within the alloted time today and […]