A fitting end to my time at Terminal 2
After my trip to hell getting to Austin on Saturday (my flight boarded on time but was over 3 hours late leaving Toronto, meaning that we sat strapped in for about 3.5 hours on the ground before ever taking off, then missed my connection in Washington so arrived in Austin about 6 hours late), I [...]
Short-lived nirvana in Terminal 2
It figures that on my absolute last trip out of Toronto’s Terminal 2 (it closes for demolition on Tuesday), I find a spot — right in front of gate K in the US departures area — where I have both AC power and free wifi. The wifi seems to be courtesy of the Air Canada [...]
The Emperor’s Children (Claire Messud)
I know that I said in my review of jPod that there are few books that I don’t finish once starting them: The Emperor’s Children is one of those rarities. I struggled through about half of the book, wading through the overly-complex and pompous wording and characters that I really didn’t care that much about, [...]
jPod (Douglas Coupland)
My LibraryThing icon in the sidebar has been pretty busy lately; I arrived home on the 10th after being away for a month and found that three of the books that I had put on reserve at the library had already come and gone, and four more were ready to be picked up. I love [...]
The Robber Bride on film
If you’re a fan of Margaret Atwood, as I am, you’ll want to catch the movie adaptation of her book The Robber Bride on CBC this Sunday. Mary Louise Parker‘s in it. Hey, it’s passive, but it’s CanCon so I’m counting this as part of the arts challenge.
2007 Canada Council Arts Challenge
Back in December, I received an email from Ingrid about the Canada Council for the Arts challenging Canadians to participate in 50 arts activities in 2007. Of course, I just noticed that I missed the registration deadline of January 15th, but what the hell — I’m doing it anyway, and not just because Ingrid’s suggesting [...]
Netfirms has the last word
If you’ve been following my blog for a while, you’ll know that I had a run-in with a crappy hosting provider (Netfirms) that resulted in me blogging a lot of bad (yet completely true) stuff about them, and them letting me out of my year-long contract with a refund of the unused months. That finished [...]
Rogers and phone unlocking
People who live outside North America are shocked that we are shackled to our mobile service provider since phones bought through them are locked to that provider. Roaming charges with most providers are prohibitively expensive, and I’d really like to just get a local pay-as-you-go SIM card when I’m travelling so that I can use [...]
The chick flick effect
The good thing about an unconference like EnterpriseCamp is that it doesn’t attract too many of the testosterone-laden alpha geeks that many tech conferences do, so although there were only 3 women in about 40 attendees, I had a pretty good time on Saturday. Also, there was no chance of a line-up in the ladies [...]
Catching up
Just returned from a month in Europe: pre-Christmas in Zagreb, where Damir lived for several years before he moved to Canada, Christmas in Osijek with his family, and New Years in Vienna plus the following 10 days. Still a bit jet-lagged, but westbound is always easier for me so recovering quickly. Pictures from Croatia and [...]
