Despite his religious orientation, Harry Lehotsky did a lot of good in the 'hood. Creating low income housing for the sober he did a lot to reclaim the area I lived in. This was at a time where government housing (ie tenements) in the same neighbourhood was a complete failure consistently overrun by crack dealers, hookers, and every other form of ( Read more... )

The funeral for my neighbour from across the street was at 11 AM this morning. I dragged myself down there for it as I wanted to say good bye. It was very sad ( Read more... )

Happy birthday dayv!

This month the Ball web stats continued to grow at a crazy rate setting all sorts of new records. Our average daily hits throughout the entire site are up from 37,696 hits / day in September, to 58,362 hits / day in October. For comparison’ sake last year we had an average of 1,294 hits / day throughout the entire site (which we were quite happy ( Read more... )

Wow, look at Tony Blair brilliantly discovering what was published a quarter century ago in the United Nations Brundtland Report Our Common Future.
http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2006/10/30/climate-cost.html
Go Tony! Way to boldly lead from the rear.

So it's my birthday today (that's a venerable 48, thank you very much) and I'm chugging through my correspondence. The first email I read today was:

Sir, i would like to thank you for all the work and dedication you have put into the Ball over the past 10 years.  I attended my first ball this past weekend, and i am still somewhat awestruck by the ( Read more... )

http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2006/09/26/tech-warming-060926.html

Up too early again.

Dragontacular

too early