Archive for November, 2004

Hard work in the home stretch

Wednesday, November 24th, 2004

School is pretty insane into the home stretch. My poor start in math took some extra attention to fix, but another test at 89% goes to show that hard work pays off. On the downside, extra math work meant less time for other subjects, and I’m playing a bit of catch up, but I must [...]

10 minutes ago

Monday, November 22nd, 2004

Not 10 minutes ago, I was about to write about what a great time I had at the Firefox release party, when Tina called out to me: “something’s wrong with the cat again!” Oh shit.
I ran out of the office and there was Lico, trying to cough up choking on something. Of course, with the [...]

Kevin Sites’s open letter response on Falluja shooting video

Sunday, November 21st, 2004

Kevin Sites received a little attention at the start of the Iraq war, because he was one of the few professional reporters running their own blog to report from the front lines. He has gained renoun as the reporter who witnessed the Fallujah Mosque Shooting.
Today he published an open letter to the Devil Dogs of [...]

FireFox party tonight

Friday, November 19th, 2004

Today is the Kamloops FireFox release party at On The Rocks Pub & Grill. In case you haven’t heard about it, I wrote about it earlier, and you can find the location and details at the official Mozparty2 website.
Hope to see you there!

Good riddance

Thursday, November 18th, 2004

No country is in need of more racists—especially not in parliment. At least the politicians have something right: good riddance Carolyn Parrish.
I wonder what will happen in her riding, if her constituants are angered enough to force her out. I bet they’re too apathetic, or supportive of her stance; one can only hope.

Power of Apology

Wednesday, November 17th, 2004

In business, an apology has good social and economic value. Public Relations writer Peter West takes what seems like common sense and puts it into an economic perspective:
This right out of The Globe and Mail: Seems hospitals in the University of Michigan Health System have seen their annual attorney fees drop from $3-million (U.S.) to [...]