I am happy to see that NYCO has reorganized the Upstate Bloggers map. I am pleased to note that I am an honourary upstater - upon which badge [Ed.: ...and you do get natty badges] I earned one tiny gold star recently as I helped organize an NCPR outreach session here in Kingston. Who knew there …

Last night I got a few emails from Arthur. Apparently we need a World Cup Chat function around here. This is interesting as it is in line with my new theory of "blog as rec room." Not a high tech stringer to a decentralized news function. Not a aluminum foil wall papered bean bag chair filled …

I have finally found it. The key to internet-based financial freedom. Consider this:  •  “Feeling guilty about driving your SUV through the crowded streets of the city while a grey pall of smog sits on the horizon? Now you can assuage your guilt by doing what some of the biggest industrial …

One thing about sports these days is great access to the pros. While my Dad in early 1960s did have Bobby Hull hack a loogie onto his lap as he sat in a front row seat at Maple Leaf Gardens, just at the spot where and when Hull was being checked into the boards, it is only now with the internets …

Now that it is offically World Cup Warm-up Week at Gen X 40 HQ (meaning the Morris dancers have come and gone) it is time to roll out the new logo and start analyzing what is what...and can you believe I whipped up that logo in under three hours? [Let me just say the intenet is a fantastic …

Three weeks since an update in the 2006 GX40 spring sports pool. Here is how things are going after the Memorial Cup, after the boxing and after the cricket - which at a 1 wicket win by the West Indies over India is the most exciting event captured by the pool so far. Only Ranald and Don got the …

Finally, the heat of May is past and we can enjoy a sensible bit of June. June is one of those months that stands out for me. Planting should be done by now. By this time during school, you were beyond teaching, staring out of the window was the main thing, you had either already made the grade …

Working late last night I was yapping with another blogger and I made comment about the wasteland of busy but foul and blockheaded comment-making on a third blog that I do not follow. The response was interesting, that this blog is in a golden era of comment that I should relish as it may not last …

I never get to sleep in and when I do it is usually to 7:55 or some farce upon the concept of sleeping in. I am a huge booster for "sleeping in" and its saucey relative "the nap" yet I am not as avid a practitioner of the first, though I enforce an iron rule over the second. That all being said, I …