John of Argghhh! linked to my photo of Fort Henry below and he has struck me to the core - I have been remiss in my feeding of his fort photo needs. Fortunately, last weekend, I took a bunch of views of Fort Henry and the Royal Military College from the Wolf Island ferry as we returned from one of …

Ian muses about the last Gen X fad, mid-90s retro swing. It lasted a bit later in the Maritimes with the Johnny Favorite Swing Orchestra being nominated for the 1999 Best Group in the ECMA's and a Juno in 2000 - they collapsed soon thereafter and Johnny found out soon that his self as solo was not …

Along with the lack of any coherent or useful organization or indexing, this medium suffers from a lack of its own history. Sure there is the Internet Archive capturing something like one front page screen shot in every 12,486,081,230 and those high level no details stuff time lines about when the …

Archeologists at Kingston City Hall. Click.

Last night at the ribsfest an idea came up that I had not thought of before - 90's nostalgia. Even though I was 26 when the decade started I really could not tell you much about the music other than Cobain offed himself and the Smashing Pumpkins sucked. Yesterday on DNTO they played a cut …

I happened to watch Enemy at the Gates yesterday which, from my recollection of the book, was a fairly smarmy Hollywoodification of the original. Yet, it did remind me that the war we just recalled having won 60 years ago was in large part won in a tank factory in Stalingrad in a battle that took …

From the BBC's In Pictures page, the caption reads "Russian sailors rehearse a Victory Day military parade in Moscow commemorating the defeat of Nazi Germany". All a bit odd in light of the bit of history chess being played out between the USA and Russia, as noted by Ben, in the lead up to GWB's …

With all the talk of Terry Fox and the 25th anniversary of his run across Canada for cancer research which ended with his death about a third of the way across, I often think of Steve Fonyo, a person with less in life who has made some very bad calls, who actually did run non-stop across the land …