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Happy Birthday Vangogh
Today is Vincent Vangogh’s 150th birthday. Of course he’s long longer around to celebrate it, but that doesn’t mean we can’t, in the famous Dutch tradition, raise a few Heinekens to his work. Google is celebrating with their Vangogh-ish icons.
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dell versus mac-mini
I need to buy a new home computer. I’m torn between purchasing a Mac mini or a regular old plain-jane Dell PC. The Dell is a decent, stable, but very boring PC running Windows XP, which I loath. Inherent with Windows is poor performance, lousy stability, and all the fun and games that comes with…
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the thin thread
This morning I woke up to a really cold house. Okay, 15 isn’t that cold, but it is when the programable thermostat normally keeps the house at 18 and brings it to a cozy 21 by itself in the morning. It was only a worn-out valve that kept the furnace from kicking in, but that…
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last weekend
The past weekend stands out for a few reasons. The first is we attended a benefit concert put on by Watoto, a group of 7-15 year-old children from Uganda. They stand out because all of them have lost one or both parents to AIDS and warfare. The ministry’s goal is to rescue 10,000 of the…
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ebay song
Check out this page, I love it.
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paper airplanes
When I was about eight or nine my parents took us to Holland to visit our extended family. Visitting my grandfather was always a treat, he’d make the most awesome paper airplanes, and we could fly them off the balcony of this 7th floor apartment. I’ve been trying to figure out how to make them…
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fish are friends, not food!
We’ve been watching the movie “Finding Nemo” this weekend, and the shark’s mantra “fish are friends, not food” has now been adopted by our family, albeit slightly altered “brothers are friends, not food”. Noah and Mikaela were playing shark, things got a bit too real for the participants and Noah now has a rather large…
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tobogganing
Sometimes you end up doing something that brings back a lot of fond memories. A few days ago Noah (4), his Uncle Ben (16) and I (??) took Ben’s toboggan (the GT Snowracer kind with a steering wheel) down a hill. We quickly decided that a hill needs a ramp. Noah liked the ramp up…
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blogroll through bloglines
I’ve been using bloglines to keep track of all the news and blog sites I visit. Rather than visitting them daily or weekly bloglines subscribes to all of them (using RSS or Atom), and I only visit bloglines to see what’s new in the world. The benefits of bloglines are endless, especially when compared to…
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why penguins no longer inhabit the north pole
Have a look here.
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Ontario Green Belt
The Ontario Government has created a greenbelt legislation, which is surrounded by a lot of rumor and not much fact. The link (here) at least shows the maps, but is still low on information. The concept is that urban sprawl is costing the municipalities far too much, and the developers have far too much clout…