Yesterday I took someone’s moped for spin. It’s a Tomos Bullet, pretty much brand new. He uses it to drive back and forth to work, which leaves the van for his wife, and allows them to get along with just one vehicle. According to Ontario’s Highway Traffic Act, a moped must be less than 50cc…

Tim Challies writes an interesting article here about the lack of physical education at Christian Schools. Having spent many years in the same schools as Tim (except the Scotland stint) I can attest to the same physical training, or lack thereof. I also had very little athletic inclinations in school, and unlike Tim, was rather…

Wired.com announced yesterday that the words “internet”, “web” and “net” will no longer be spelled with capital letters. Seems that the words really are common place and don’t need to be capitalized. Ask any spider or fisher-person, the words have been around for centuries.

Saturday evening we had the pleasure of crusing on the Grand River, courtesy of the Grand River Boat Farm. The cruise was ok, but the cause was excellent. It was a fundraiser for the World Wide Christian Schools organization (no website yet). They organize funding for building Christian schools in poor areas of the world,…

I saw two things this morning that I normally don’t. First I saw five deer in the field across the road from our house, only 20 metres or so from our house. They normally stay near the back, about 1km or so away. The second thing was a guy dumping his motorcycle right in front…

I was only away from work for 6 days, and had 334 emails arrive in my absence. Wow, I must be popular! Ya right, after my spam filter had a go at my inbox, 250 of those were classified as spam (from mortgage offers to free phones to viagra ads and much worse). Of the…

We had an awesome canoe trip last week, as described about a week ago in this post. The weather was great, company was excellent, the wildlife behaved, the food…. ahhh, lets leave the food out of it for now. For the impatient who don’t like to read more than a few words, pictures are available…