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I hope everyone who celebrates it had a Merry Christmas. Of course, many families who hold multiple Christmas get-togethers with different sides of the family hold them on Boxing Day as well, so my hope to those folks is that you’re having a good Christmas get-together, and Happy Boxing Day to you!  If you haven’t bought your Christmas tree by now, you might be out of luck this year. However, this might come in handy for you next year. There’s often a debate about whether to buy a real one or an artificial one for inside the house. I have a different suggestion for you; next year consider going down to your local tree farm or gardening centre and buying a real tree that’s in its pot still, which can be planted by you in your yard (or somewhere else) after the holiday season. As an example, my family this year put the artificial tree up inside, but went down to [...] Tags: Christmas, Christmas Trees, environment | Category: Misc |
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 I decided I’d try out whether the new release of WordPress 2.9 & its embedding movies/video is indeed easier to do then prior versions, while at the same time giving you folks a holiday treat: a version of “A Christmas Carol” not often seen these days on the television. This is the 1935 British release, which as it so happens, was the first time “A Christmas Carol” was made in the “post-silent” film era. There are some moments where the script seems a bit corny – the actors seem to be trying too hard to be as literal as possible to Dicken’s original novel, but it’s still a fine [...] - BigCityLib fact checks & reads Mark Steyn’s columns at Macleans so you don’t have to. I wonder if he’ll be doing that with recently arrived Colby Cosh as well. He may not be blogging about much else if he takes that on too. - An odd way for the Canadian government to show patriotism with the upcoming Vancouver Olympics: “Canada’s $9.2-million, Olympic pavilion is being built by a U.S. firm from Chicago. The contract was awarded just recently on short notice, and apparently helped to exclude a lot of Canadian firms from doing the work. This is particularly galling when Canadian firms are facing trouble getting contracts in [...] Category: Blog Culture, Canadian Politics, Misc |
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If you were wondering why on this Monday I didn’t bother with any comments on the House back in session, and specifically whether the NDP is going to try claiming all those times the Liberals didn’t vote to bring the government down is somehow different from the support the NDP may or may not offer the Conservative government.. etc etc, I was up in London today on some business, visiting my grandfather in the Veterans wing at Parkwood Hospital, and helping to celebrate my niece’s 4th birthday with family members. Some things are more important then politics, and I think I’m allowed an off-day here and there Politically off-topic.. but I couldn’t resist posting about this: ‘Facebook makes you sharper but Twitter makes you thicker’ Facebook makes you sharper but Twitter makes you thicker, a psychologist has said…The social networking site boosts a part of intelligence that is vital to success in life, while tweeting away may have the opposite effect. Keeping up to date with Facebook may have the same effect as playing video war games and solving Sudoku, said Dr Tracy Alloway of Scotland’s University of Stirling. It hones the ability to remember information and to use it, known as “working memory”. …But text messaging, micro-blogging on Twitter and watching YouTube were likely to [...] As some have told me, and which I’ve just noted, there’s a problem with some of the reply features and editing features on here that use AJAX script to run. I tried using the Edit Comments feature on here (which uses Ajax to run) and I’m getting an internal server error. This site and its url/domain just got moved to a different server last night… so its possibly to do with something right on the server. We’ll have to check it out tomorrow. In the meantime, I’ll disable the AJAX based plugins.. so some functionality, particularly in the message base will be limited until that gets fixed. (If [...] Another end of an era: The last British survivor of the World War I trenches, Harry Patch, has died at the age of 111. Mr Patch was conscripted into the Army aged 18 and fought in the Battle of Passchendaele at Ypres in 1917 in which more than 70,000 British soldiers died. According to the BBC, there are now only 3 surviving WWI Veterans: John Babcock, who turned 109 on 23 July, was with Canada’s Boys Battalion in England but the war ended before he turned 18 and could go to the front - Frank Buckles, 108, joined the American army aged just 16 and was held in reserve [...] Tags: World War 1, WWI | Category: Misc |
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..at least until the coverage of the Michael Jackson tribute/public service is over. I’ve nothing against Jackson, and I acknowledge his influence on modern-day music, and I’ll even concede his passing and this funeral is this generation’s version of when Elvis Presley passed on, but as a noted journalist friend of mine on Facebook said in her status message, “People are dying for freedom in Iran, Honduras, Congo … and we’re still on a pop star?” (I’ll add the Uighurs in China as well). I just upgraded my WordPress theme to the newest version (Atahualpa 3.4) and decided to do some tinkering with the sidebar colours for text and background. I don’t know if I’m nearly as design savvy like Colin and Justin, but I think that the colour I picked doesn’t clash with the red and other main colours of the theme. Let me know if the sidebars are easier to read, or if you have other suggestions for a compatible colour on the sidebars with the overall look. |
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