As an avid bookstore fan (I spend many lunch hours browsing the Coles’s close to my office) I’ve been wondering about the book called “Eats, Shoots and Leaves”. Turns out it’s a book on punctuation; and the correct or rather incorrect use of punctuation in current writing. In fact, it talks about the complete desecration…

Only seven more days until my canoe trip. I’m taking Noah (4 years old) for his first canoe trip, to Massasauga Provincial park, just south of Parry Sound. We’re going with Noah’s Uncle Ben, who’s a large strapping young lad, just itching to carry the canoe, packs, and Noah all at the same time. Noah’s…

This weekend Noah turned four years old. I can’t believe how fast time goes. Without sounding like an old guy, it seems just like yesterday that he would lie in my arms, just smiling at the world. In fact, it was yesterday… for about 5 seconds while I told him what he was like when…

I finally recieved one of the covetted gmail invites! So now I’ve got an email account that has 1000Mb of space, complete with Google’s searching capabilities and Google’s spam fighting technology. Hoopla! Email me at “hart DOT mike AT gmail DOT com” (replacing the words in caps with their equivalent symbols of course).

It’s very important to fully understand and define a problem before trying to solve it. I overheard a story that illustrates this quite nicely. A mother heard her three-year old son screaming hysterically in the bathroom, and ran over to see what was wrong. He was holding his hand up in the hair, looking at…

Last week we were blessed with a weeklong stay at a cottage on Muskoka Lake. The weather didn’t cooperate, but we had a great time. Pictures are available here.

It has come to my attention that several people have claimed the status of ‘geek’ when it is glaringly obvious that they are not geeks. So here’s a quick and dirty geek test. You must pass the test to be able to call yourself a geek. Put your answers as a comment, and I’ll post…