Up too late watching the Grammy broadcast, listening to Christine Aguilera's voice writhe through a song-like thing and wondering how many degrees of separation there was between that voice that never really touches on a note and that of Mary Margaret O'Hara's. The high school marching band with …

I enjoyed the game. I usually don't. But I might have enjoyed it for improper reasons.  •  I like a punting duel which the first quarter of the game basically was. Holding position until the quarterbacks figure out what was going on. It was like a CFL game between Hamilton and Winnipeg in early …

I wasn't paying attention and I've already missed the pre-pre-game show for Super Bowl Extra Large. I hope the pre-warm-up-show is still on the other channel.  •  Predictions? The team I pick will lose. That makes it Pittsburg. Jerome Bettis, however, will win MVP for guys with guts everywhere. My …

For an old school radio nerd like me, getting the chance to join other listeners to give feed back to the staff at NCPR yesterday was quite the thing. Well loved by its fan base, the station is apparently one of the best rural stations in the NPR system. It was interesting having come across the …

Off to do my part for NPR by helping NCPR think about what it might do with the internet. I am really looking forward to this but I am a bit worried about my Cantonese.  •  On the up side, I have established where the ales are, have scoped out First Prize Hots for the way home and also plan to buy …

From Dirk von Zitzewitz's Blog and Dakar 2005.  •  It is that week again and the channel formerly known as the Outdoor Life Network is playing the Lisbon to Dakar rally as a four night summary. Apparently on Saturday there is a four hour repeat broadcast starting 2 pm, a festival of broken drive …

What a week. A Federal election and Rabbie Burns Day.  •  I am glad the Federal election is over. It took time away from fretting over popular televised sports. I am comfortable with how things turned out but I am still a bit unclear how arguing over the Arctic became such a hot button issue all …

It is the season to explore the other channels.  •  I watched Doc Martin on Vision TV. I really did. And the network formerly known as Outdoor Life Network, now just OLN, has started a good series called Bushcraft with Ray Mears. Unlike a show like Austrailia's Bush Tucker Man (a favorite of mine …

Hey! Imagine a TV ad at the end of a close election campaign that is not an evil mean piece of attack ad, has a decent sense of humour and yet could be co-opted by the very object of the attack.  •  Have a look at the ad on the CPC site called "Jack Talk". People saying they don't like the NDP …