I had a great time (and many scotches) last night at the Robbie Burns Society of Toronto
Here’s a little video clip, typical of the singing and joking, taken with my Treo and uploaded to YouTube.
http://weatheroffice.ec.gc.ca/forecast/trends_graph_e.html?yyz&unit=m reported Toronto weather this morning:
The funny thing is, the place I felt coldest living was in Melbourne, Australia while an MBA student.
Why? Well, our house there had practically no insulation and really poor heating.
In the BBC news today:
Scientists say rising temperatures are warming the polar regions faster than the rest of the planet.
One of the key questions that scientists will hope the research effort will shed new light on is the potential rise in sea level caused by melting of ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica.
The southern polar […]
After reading http://www.dslreports.com/archive?c=ca I noted just how badly Rogers, my current ISP, is rated for speed. Further people really complain about Rogers so I assume they’ve pushed it further and done more extensive comparisons than me.
To pick a replacement, here’s that DSL report for Canada showing service provider speeds. I then checked the providers to […]
In gifts-for-the-holidays-small-personal-and-meaningful, my friend Rob gives some great ideas for small and meaningful Holiday Season presents.
Since living with Andrea in Canada I have been fully indoctrinated into Secret Santa method of buying just one present for one person in the family.
And cards? Well, back home in the UK my mother exchanges about 120 cards at […]
I’m off to IBM at Yonge & Steels tomorrow from 2pm till 6pm to give feedback on an IBM Middleware product. I am under contractual obligation to not reveal product details, which at present is not a problem as I don’t know any! I suspect it’ll be beta testing for a newer version of IBM […]
Dave Pollard remarked in his weekly roundup:
See How Patients Rate Doctors: It’s brand new, but this site allowing North American patients to rate their physicians has great promise. It will be interesting to see if the AMA/CMA try to shut it down. Thanks to my work colleague Carolyn Lonsdale for this link and the one […]
Toronto’s warmest autumn since 1941 is about to come to a skidding halt. Today’s temperature: +15 C. Tomorrow: -1.
Damn…
