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We had a wonderful warm and sunny weekend in Toronto. I spent a good chunk of the weekend doing a spring cleaning and moving stuff up to Anne’s to get clear of the bugs (and bug spray) but we also had a great dim sum lunch at Kowloon on Baldwin to celebrate Anne’s birthday. Other […]

2003 03 17 Uncategorized Comments (0)

Just a quick reminder, in case you haven’t looked at the book review section of this site recently. There hasn’t been a lot of activity here recently, but yes, I do occasionally get time to finish a book. If you follow any of the links on the bookwork section through to amazon.ca, anything you buy […]

2003 03 12 Uncategorized Comments (0)

Not a fun read, but my history kick recently took me through Stalingrad by Anthony Beevor. I started off by re-reading Barbara Tuckman’s The Guns of August to get into the mood — Tuckman’s remains the premier book in this genre — and in comparison, I found Stalingrad to be slower and to be missing […]

2003 03 12 Uncategorized Comments (0)

So, yes, the clothes moths. They started out in the linen closet, but I put in moth balls and after a little while that seemed to have effect: it drove them out into the rest of the apartment. After a while we figured out that they’d established in the downstairs coat closet, so I moved […]

2003 03 12 Uncategorized Comments (0)

Grrrr. I have clothes moths in my apartment. Very Unhappy.

2003 03 11 Uncategorized Comments (0)

Anne’s in the house!

2003 03 10 Uncategorized Comments (0)

Anne and I had a nice day up in Midland & Penetanguishine yesterday with my parents. We were celebrating Mum’s birthday with a nice day out cross-country skiing in Awenda park. We covered a lot of ground — about as much as the two days of our previous ski weekend combined. 16km! We then had […]

2003 03 09 Uncategorized Comments (0)

The surviving dot com empires are getting bigger: Blogger, who provide the log/posting services for this web site, got bought by Google two weeks ago. Google seems to be on track to take over the world: they’re making some excellent tools, and buying others. Yahoo’s got to be getting nervous…

2003 02 27 Uncategorized Comments (0)

A great Washington Post cartoon today…

2003 02 26 Uncategorized Comments (0)

This weekend marked the first time I used the Autoshare service I signed up for last month. It’s really convenient: there’s an Autoshare car parked in a lot opposite my apartment. If it’s free, I can book it any time and pay for it by the hour and by the kilometre. It’s much more convenient […]

2003 02 26 Uncategorized Comments (0)