Month: July 2006

This has northeast surfers welcoming in the season that so many other people hate … “The disturbance off the SE coast has developed into TD #2 … The National Hurricane…

Couple of quotes that I enjoy …. “More fearful demons live in our imagination than ever lived on earth.” — Brad Brown “We must develop and maintain the capacity to…

Nice little read about the history of Hawaii from the travel section of the NYT’s… “Gathered around their radios, our grandfathers listened to Webley Edwards and his long-running show, ”Hawaii…

Linda and I decided to drive around the west end of the island of Montréal yesterday, sticking as close to the water the whole way as possible. Hard to do…

Fantasia – now in it’s 10th year – is half over. Once again I missed the one or two movies I wanted to see so I gave away my tickets….

Found this guy while reading the excellent DRAWN.ca “The Illustration and Cartooning Blog”. His personal blog has some great sketches and watercolors — especially the header artwork… “Lee Hyoung Chul,…

Found this lovely map compiling much of the info about the show so far. It includes an event timeline, a corporate directory of the Hanso foundation, a map of the…

Still kinda weirds me out how a crappy service like this can become so immensely popular… but what interests me more is how long they can sustain this for, will…

I bought my 2001 Jetta 1.8T about a year and a half ago. I Love it. It was part of the CPO program from VW Canada — in which they…

Still one of my favorite fonts to this day, I remember using it when laying out Laidlaw’s online annual reports back in 1997. I always liked the Old style figures…

Some very nice photos of Japan, as I have a couple friends who will love these. Seeing shots like these, and some of the amazing work being posted to flickr…

A story of rogue waves with some nice science of how these giants are created … “The storm was nothing special. Its waves rocked the Norwegian Dawn just enough so…

A nice little local site with a couple great writers (Nika among them) .. feed worthy… “Montrealers need Midnight Poutine. It’s a personal ongoing account of the city’s happenings. It’s…

After a hot weekend stuck in the city with Linda feeling under the weather — we walked around the plateau this afternoon amid the honking of thousands of Italian football…

Phil Ryu has put together a well done list of the most aesthetically pleasing OS X apps, “Top ten lists are a dime a dozen, but I haven’t seen one…