There’s been a fair bit of news lately on gang members shooting out Calgary. Coincidentally there’s a fair bit of news on avalanches and the cost of rescue. A father and son have been asked to pay $2,500 for triggering a dangerous search and rescue after they snowboarded out of bounds at Vancouver’s Grouse Mountain [...]
It is Wednesday morning in North America, the Large Hadron Collider is on in France and the world has not come to an end. We did not experience mini black holes tearing away at the fabric of space time. There hasn’t been a series of earthquakes or tsunamis (tsunamis? really? that is the best critics [...]
I said here that I was going to try the new Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2, which I didn’t, ironically because the site wouldn’t let me download it – good job Microsoft. Then yesterday I read the news that Google published its new ‘web browser’ Chrome designed in a typical Google fashion. Here is an [...]
Since I read this article in June, I have been keeping up with the increasingly important sunspot spotting event happening globally. The picture above shows the sun at its most active in 2001, potentially the most active period for sunspots in the past 1000 years. Dark spots, some as large as 50,000 miles in diameter, [...]
Frustrated with my Bank.. Nothing new there, I’m pretty sure everyone is frustrated to some extent with their bank. But here’s my quick snapshot. Bank of Montreal (BMO), been with them for over 20 years. I’m simply a number in their database. I have several accounts, including business accounts. Over the years I’ve dealt with [...]
