I saw this at Doc's page and boy was I ticked. Cloudy in the atmosphere here two nights ago while the layers higher up were doing a neon dance. Worse than the time I heard the triple play on TV from the kitchen. Others luckier in PEI the next night.

This is a good discussion of the phenomena of weblogs/PWPs, care of Rob1 (via right).  •  [I'll have to think about this given the stats and relative adoption rates compared to ham radio.]  •  Later: I congratulate Rob1.  •  This is the best statement of where weblogs are today that I have read …

More delights from the Farmers Market. In addition to the Royal Galas of recent days, I have just had that Spy which is like eating the side of a cow. I have also had Cortlands, Cox's Orange Pippens and, this very moment, my first Tolman Sweet aka Talman's Sweet and even aka Tom and Sweet …

Look at the names of  •  the teams in the early rounds of the Scottish Cup - an annual championship  •  for the nation which allows all teams to compete. Every few years a small local  •  club gets a long way and plays a big level pro outfit. I am rooting for Inverurie Loco Works unless  •  they …

So now we know: 5.6 billion short in one year: "Outgoing Tories Outright Lied" say the Liberal paper The Star. Nothing to compare with Mulroney's 300 plus billion gift of Federal debt to us all from 1983 to 1993 the pay back of which and interest upon which (on top of the 1983 balance of about 170 …

If you you were a continent based on eating food from tubes, wouldn't you want to  •  know what the tubes are made of? I think this is great. Expect it to hit  •  Canada in 2012.

The Internet is very wonky this afternoon which coincides with the biggest solar flares of the last 30 years. Space weather info here.  I choose to blame giant sunspot 486.  Am I right?   Are these phenomena related?   I need more space knowledge.  •  Check your AM and FM radio tonight for either …

I need to get back to earth even if the ringing in the ears has yet to completely die down...so some random observations:  •  I got a call from the US from a lawyer friend who needed a document roughly translated from a language. I suggested someone I have not met behind one of the PWP buttons to …

Here are the photos from Sloan last night.

There are 12 cicadas buzzing non-stop in my ears this morning. It was so loud, the air in the room shimmered and my pant legs flapped with the bass notes. It was great.  •  I bought tickets yesterday morning for me and Nate but when I got home this was on the email:  •  “Hey dude;  •  Sorry …

Me and Nate going to see Sloan tonight at the Grand Theatre in Kingston. Hmm...now just gotta think how I can not look like the old fart in the crowd...

I just came across this list on being 40 from the Guardian  •  Unlimited last February:  •  “21. You are less certain of things than you used to be.  •  22. You  •  argue with the television. You always win.  •  23. Reading is the new staring  •  into space.  •  24. Board games are the new cocaine …

This is the great soccer player playing today, Thierry Henry of Arsenal. I watched the 1-1 derby draw against Charlton this morning on Fox Sports World Canada (Canada's best TV station if you like soccer, rugby and cricket). His free kick (Ed.: not as illustrated) curling in from five yards …

Finding new writers in this ill-named medium of personal webpages is difficult. To your right you'll find some of my favoured who are mostly people I know, people who know people I know, people who write about Halifax and people who link to me - especially the surprisingly faithful "Glenn", an …

Once or twice before - over the six months of this blog - I have checked my referral logs and found some bot was looking at every link on my front page. Tonight the bot was this one.   I wonder what's in their sphere of autonomy. I wonder anyone reads this after the scan and is it:  •  “person …

Since at least 1997, we Canadians have enjoyed an "irreducible sphere of personal autonomy" from government under our constitution - section 7 of the Charter that is:  •  “Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of the person and the right not to be deprived thereof except in …

Do you care if it is ever put behind him?  Funny thing for the CBC to worry enough about to include in the story. Will the girls be able to?

Digital Restriction Management, Digital Rights Management, Digital Copyright Management. So many phrases for the same thing - some tomfoolery must be going on.  •  Winer states that the BBC and amateurs do not need it. Ruk indicates that the the CBC seems to want something like it. Doc Seales said …

Ian's meds must be in perfect harmony at the moment because his reaction to  •  Northern Maine and New Brunswick  •  mid-week, mid-autumn are entirely appropriate. Hope he bucks up as the big  •  event of the Canadian fall is comin' this weekend - changing the clocks.

London Underground Pass, 1987  •  I think I wrote the LSAT the day before I flew out of Halifax to Scotland in November for another go at drifting around the UK, after my well received drifting around tour '86 which saw me in Brussels, Paris, London, Scotland and the Netherlands. This time I …

I'll never have to face the kids with that blank stare again.

Home sick, blowing nose, changing diaper, I've been looking a lot at one screen or another and listening to speakers. Watched West Wing last night. Read this about Rumsfeld and a memo with questions about the war on terror today. [Today is important because CNN said this afternoon that it is …

Having owned and sold a little wooden house that sat for the best part of a hundred years fully exposed to regular 100 km plus winds, I fell like I have gotten away with something. I also feel like I have learned about what I really want in a house:  •  more and smaller bedrooms. Who needs a …

I don't know why Dave Winer [aka Dave3 to your right, my left] has to start history with himself. He made this point correcting the beginning of time to 1997 from 1999 as proposed by the Columbia Journalism Review. Trouble is, it is clearly five years too late - as the first weblog / web log was …

Surely just someone with the same name.  •  I came across this and a bunch of other IDs through time a while ago. I find them oddly compelling as a little pictoral history of my head and its hair.

William Blake around 200 years ago wrote something like:  •  “Little Lamb, who made thee?  •  Dost thou know who ate thee?”  •  On the second question, I did. I have been eating a 40 buck hunk of lamb hind-quarter since Saturday...and I am glad I have. I am not a big red meat eater, buy a steak …

From Dave Swick's column in today's Halifax Daily News:  •  “How violent was Juan? We now have some numbers to help us calculate how quickly the devastation occurred. They are shocking.  •  HRM property manager Mike Labrecque estimates upward of 40,000 trees fell in Point Pleasant Park alone. When …

My pal and fellow Kingsman, crow and sometimes home brewer is the host of CBC North's Whitehorse's morning radio show. I am listening to it, three or four time zones east, on realaudio.  •  Odd to hear his voice not shouting "pass the ball, you goal-sucking goof"...or "where's the opener"...

I think of my friend Steven every time I look at The New York Times Weather Report - the paper version that is. That is because he is a big fan of the graphical representation of information [his love for this is pure]; and the Weather Report, found today on D8, the back of the sports section …

Mike points out the following act of infamy:  •  “...it is with great regret and a heavy heart that I announce the dark decision that has cast a terrible shadow over the 2003 World Cup of Rugby. In what can only be considered as a crime against rugby -- nay, a crime against humanity -- nay nay, a …

This is too funny not to copy in full. From amongst Jason Kottke's observations at Pop!Tech:  •  “The badges at Pop!Tech were wee interactive computers called nTags. When engaged in conversation with someone, you could choose to send your contact information to that person, see what that person is …

So, given there is perhaps dissatisfaction, and echoing Jevon's question, what would be a perfect aggregator? Does one exist now that would:  •  make me feel I was dealing with the author and not just a paragraph;  •  contextualizes the new;  •  does not overwhelm with the tangential;  •  allows …

There is much talk amongst these things called blogs about their place. Dave Winer makes an interesting point about their utility being in the narrowness of blogging. Craig points us to some less optimistic opinions which reminded me of my posting five months ago comparing blogs and CB radio. I …

I finally understand UB40, the band of "Red, Red Wine" and "Kingston Town." It's rocksteady. Their "Wear You the the Ball" is a cover of the 1967 original by The Paragons.  •  “The successor to ska, rocksteady dominated the Jamaican music charts for a brief, but glorious two-year period commencing …

Friends in my former home of the middle north middle of PEI are holding a conference. I thought of having a conference once but only got this blog for my meagre efforts. These guys have put much more into it. In the best tradition of the Pugwash conference, no one is paid to be there and those …

The glory of the internet is not e-commerce or, as we are learning, the former claimant email. It really is watching people go into amazing detail publicly about topics that they wouldn't dare mention on a first date for fear of coming across as a screaming pimple-bummed nerd. Example? The Visual …

After being up late dieing with the Sox, the five year old got me up at 6:00 am which let me find out where CBC Commentary had gone. For years, this was fixed at 8:17 am right after The World at Eight giving people - other than journalists and policitians - an opportunity three minutes to skew any …

I have found the Marie to my crabby Gen X Donnie. I consider my art, my oeuvre, is not so much in discussing the gripes of my people as exemplifying them, being el X...but I was thinking of reviewing these my gifts to you for trends. Shelly points to one - being ignored by Boomer marketers looking …

I didn't shout "PUT IN TIMLIN!" at the TV. I thought it. I didn't shout "DON"T ASK THE PITCHER IF HE FEELS OK AFTER HE HAS ALL OF A SUDDEN LET THREE HITS WITH NO OUTS IN THE EIGHTH WHEN YOU ARE UP BY THREE RUNS!!!" at the TV. I thought it.  •  So...no Bill Buckner boot this time - just a manager …

A ten minute walk from work gets you a 70 cent stamp for a real handwritten letter to SoPo, Me.; this morning's The New York Times, and its all important sports section given tonight's game; and a small bag of Royal Gala apples. There are local Spy apples down there in the Kingston Farmer's Market …

I am not so much thinking of the topic David Frum chooses to write about but the blantantly and unsatisfyingly naive simplicity of his reasoning: society (which I think is acknowledged by him to be complex) should not do something new because it will expose society to its own complexity and that …

I don't really care for writing about politics much, especially conservative politics. The idea that an individual could actually express an undertanding of what happened or is happening in Iraq, whether Bush/Clinton/Bush/Regan is/was a great leader or a stunned moron, whether Paul Martin's rise …

Hang on...Nomah in the park homah...Timlin perfect... Nixon upper deck...8:00 EST and the BoSox are now up 3 on the ninth at Yankee Stadium.  •  opleaseopleaseopleaseopleaseopleaseoplease...  •  Later: Well, either the double curse of all time is now on and Chicago and Boston have a goat and a …

Some cool patches I picked up in the 1970's  •  Just to let you all know, the michty Grrrrenock Morton are doing nicely at the top of the Second Division of th SFA about two months into the new season, despite the recent hiccup at Berwick. After last year's championship and subsequent move up the …

People who know me know I like beer. I like to brew it. I like to go to good pubs. I like to read about beer. I appear, however, to be but a babe in a nappy compared to this guy from Toronto who I came across on a Google search for the Rogues Roost in Halifax. Nice burns. Nice tie.

Pop culture can clash with memory. The shack right is the Lick-a-Chick in Sydney Mines, via the dishwasher. Dad's first placement as a minister was there and my 1970-71 recollection of this diner is exactly as in the picture. That tune from Reservoir Dogs - "Hooked on a Feeling" by B.J. Thomas …

I am enjoying reading this blog, found during the search for Juan photos, by a former Haligonian from and now returned to Winnipeg. I have married into a clan that displays repetitive Manitoba residency syndrom so am pleased to see that there is a web-based "winnipeg-english" dictionary to clear …

Rotel. Bruce's parents know not what they have. High-end English-made amplifier. Dull black front with small knobs, painted on numbers 1 to 10 and maybe only a couple of red lights to tell you the thing is on. I sold my Rotel during one of my gotta-pay-for-a-move moments in life. Cleanest sound I …

1200 km from Kingston to Stratford to Owen Sound to Stratford to Kingston. I found the point of eating discomfort and went beyond it. Woke in the night and thought to myself "whoa, that was a crapload of turkey I just ate". Turkey, like punk rock, is best taken in large volume.  •  Stopped at the …

The weird thing about gorillas is that they give you second glances, check you out.   The Toronto Zoo has a newish gorilla house.  You should feel guilty looking at them regardless but then, knowing that their chances in the wild are pretty crappy, what can you do?   Saw lions and tigers and …

The downtown corner of Ontario, Church and St. Andrew Streets in Stratford, Ontario as as good looking a public space as there is in Canada.  A county court house, a big bank, a very properous looking Masonic Lodge, a few good pubs and the Stratford Public Library from where I write.   A library …

Two hours ago, I learned my Sunday dinner meat had already been cooked. It will be twenty hours yet before I will find out whether, hoping against hope, it has sat in the freezer - rather than at the bottom of an overstuffed, warm fridge - for the 72 hours from oven to plate. My strategies for …

From Ira Berkow's column in "Sports of the Times" in today's New York Times:  •  “The thing about sports, and baseball in particular, is that in so many cases you'll see something you have never seen before...  •  I recall that in 1969, after baseball had gone through a season dominated by defence …

I have been looking for a picture from Halifax near where I used to live. The swingsets you can see to the centre left are at the field on Jubilee between Oxford and Robie where the crows' soccer sunday has been held since 1986. Thanks to this great slide show. It looks like the huge tree survived …

The point at which the Mass turnpike meets New York State is about halfway from Brooklyn and the Canadian border. Ian's posting this morning considers the reasons for changing direction on the weekend commute from the farm to the apartment.  •  My neighbours in PEI included Yankees moving up and …

It is a dangerous thing to go around smugly correcting facts. Via Path of the Paddle, David Frum wants to make sure his fellow Canadians know their place, which is 30% behind his chosen place. The fact posed which I thought most odd was this:  •  “...Canada, a society uncursed by slavery, now has …

There is an interesting story out of England where the players for the national fitba team have voted to not play a qualification game for the European Championship against Turkey if the ban against one of their number for not attending immediately to a drugs test is not lifted. The FA is the …

An interesting article in BBC web's magazine section, which I just clicked into today, on police surveillance of the women's vote movement in the UK. Grannie McLeod was one of these gals or taught by them. Wonder if there are any good pictures out there of her. I wonder if they have any good ones …

I like buildings. If I could do math at any level, I might have been an architect...well, I might have applied, got bored with or scared all the brain knowledge required (as opposed to look it up and think it up knowledge in law) and done something else. So in tribute to that path not taken, I am …

There are moments when my participation in pop culture is involuntary. I spent a few hours yesterday evening fixed to the tube, butterflies in the belly. At the end I had to go to bed, earphoned with WTIC 1080 am in Hartford fading in and out with my #5 t-shirt on, supplicated entirely to the will …

I am mad for anything made of fish flesh. Uncle Dougie told me a few years ago that Pappa Dobie, my grandfather now gone 26 years, would walk beaches in Scotland and snack on anything he could work out of a shell with a penknife. Growing up in the Annapolis Valley, I ate dried seaweed called dulse …

Left: A sad street scene from Halifax last week  •  I heard over the weekend from my buddy Darren that our pals Bruce and Alena out in Jeddore were particularly hammered by Juan. Their house sits in spruce woods on a coastal cliff looking south east out at the Ocean. I guess the forest there is a …

Last July, I wrote a review of Pete Brown's book Man Walks into a Pub. Over 7 weeks later, A reply was posted by Martyn Cornell:  •  “I had better declare a massive interest before I begin, since I'm the author of Beer: The Story of the Pint, which came out two months after Pete Brown's book. I've …

Time for a new editor at the Globe's Style section.  •  There's a really great article, you see, on page L-12 of the Style section today about - get this - a white trash party at the Beaches in Toronto last weekend. It's so funny. You see it's about these well-off folk who get good cheques after …

While at Sam the Record Man on Yonge, I picked up a couple of magazines. I found a copy of Arsenal: The Official Magazine which is to When Saturday Comes what a 1979 issue of Teen Beat was to that year's Rolling Stone. Ashley Cole and David Cassidy are both dreamy but I want a bit more than glossy …

Had a very good 36 hours:  •  For the first time I spoke on privacy law to a group (about 400 senior provincial and MUSH officials) who actually got it.  At the MacDonald block of Queen's Park down the hall from the Mines and Mineral Information Centre.  I got to publicly disagree with new Federal …

Off to the Big Smoke this evening for to speak at a workshop tomorrow on PIPEDA as part of this conference.  Taking the train.  Maybe I'll find a Tory election night party for some free drinkings and weepies.

I ripped this image from PEIinfor.com. Thanks. Hmmm...66 to 68 cents here. Why so much even with yesterday's regulated price increase decrease in PEI? Why does the regulation system cost so much? Transport is some of it but the gas is made in the Maritimes even though subject to higher taxation …

When the election was called last month, the standings in the Ontario provincial legislature were:  •  “Tories: 56  •  Liberals: 36  •  NDP: 9  •  Ind.: 1  •  Vacant: 1”  •  When the election is over tonight at 8:17 pm, the standings in the legislature shall be were:  •  “Liberals: 73  •  NDP: 15 …

With the power coming on in Halifax and the rest of Nova Scotia bit by bit some photos are getting out now. There is a good set from the Waterfront and the Queen, South and Inglis Streets areas here which I found through a bluenoser in Winnipeg.

Except for maybe the Federal election in 1997, I don't vote for winners. I've usually voted NDP but have voted Green and even for the almost upset for Hec Clouthier (MP 1997-2000) as Independent Liberal in, what, 1993 or so. I think I said to "No" to the 1992 Charlottetown Accord, a constitutional …

As pointed out by Dita, silverorange Inc., my former client, boss and present serverlord moves to its new home downtown in Charlottetown, PEI.  •  Hey, don't forget Dave...and clean up your mess.  •  Later: again via Dita  •  Done.

At this rate, by 2007, I will control all thoughts in the minds of each person throughout the world. Suggestions for use of such control are being accepted now.

I don't usually like bad puns. I am sorry of the title of this little tale led anyone into hope of emotional truths. Its really about how many times I have packed my bags and moved residence for a month or more. Forty homes in fourty and a half years of life. I was in a meeting the other day …