I do not buy this Rules of Links idea. We do not need rules for this kind of yappetry stuff:  •  “...professional publications usually don't link to the subject of their articles, where weblogs usually do. [It was] noted...in relation to the furor over a security whitepaper that got one of the …

Check here for what hurricane can do to a drive-in theater. Hope there is a rebuild.  •  Later:Read Dave Swick's piece on Juan and Halifax here.

Since writing the last post, I have gotten two emails from long lost friends, another from an author discussing the role of footnotes in histories of beer and phoned Ross about the Sox in the playoffs...and about how lazy we are about getting our daughters together for play dates despite the 800 …

Going through the Yahoo Group I mentioned that Brian Cormier set up for remembering George Earles, I noticed that there was a photos section and I saw this. First week of third fourth year out to Peggy's Cove to drink bad white wine and watch waves. Luanne would be so proud to know I am a Mason …

I am a sucker for election nights. To follow the PEI election, go to the CBC site here starting 15 minutes after this posting. For those of you outside Canada, PEI is the smallest semi-soverign jurisdiction in North America with 97,000 voters electing 26 members (MLAs) to the legislative assembly …

You would have noticed I was down. My servers sit happily on PEI where hurricane Juan tore through last night knocking out electricity. I am in Ontario, 1500 km to the west. If you click on my favoured bloggers to your right (my left) you will find some other bloggers there getting up over the …

Was up in Ottawa overnight last night at brother Dougie's. Played a little 1980's Coleco and a little 1960's Munroe, if you know what I mean. The old sets are getting a little tired but I still smoked him. He and me are hockey junk nerds and I took the opportunity to scan a few things including …

From Brother Iain's yellow press:  •  “As Ontario's Conservatives continued to trail in public opinion polls, dozens of Tory aides, including senior staff, have been shopping their resumes around ahead of the Oct. 2 election. Among them are members of the office of Premier Ernie Eves, senior …

I so told you so...  •  Do they come in lemon yellow after the recall?

I was thinking more about this post and the quote copied from Jean's Tingley's PEI election blog. What laws are involved? Perhaps Criminal Code sub-section 121(2)  •  “(2) Every one commits an offence who, in order to obtain or retain a contract with the government, or as a term of any such …

From this web site of great old comic ads. I think I had half a dozen of the apollo models which had about three snap together pieces. I always wanted the box of green soldiers - little green plastic B-52s set against billowing summer clouds. Not the ghost, though. I think I had nightmares about …

I think of all the people I never met - outside of long departed family - this guy's is my favorite. When I vote, I vote for him. In 1998, the BBC said he was never caught.  •  Go Beijing Dilbert in front of tanks guy! I'd send you paypal but they'd catch you that way.

From candidate Jean Tingley's site today  •  “As the election gets nearer, I find the people are getting a bit bolder with making demands in exchange for their vote. Today, I was told there were four votes in the house in exchange for a guarantee and promise that the two men in the house would be …

More dead cat bouncing from Eves. He thinks "Tory consultants to the Tory government" is now bad:  •  “Provincial auditor Erik Peters pinpointed the consulting fees in his annual report last year, accusing the Conservative government of paying outrageously high fees to outsiders, when in many …

I am not on the anti-Arab bandwagon so popular with bloggers out there but - holy f*****g moley - is this what I can expect from my national government and diplomatic corps if I am tortured overseas after being falsely accused and jailed without trial?  •  “Former Ottawa Liberal MP Mac Harb, who …

The interview with Tim Berners-Lee at BBC news this morning includes reference to the work of Vannevar Bush.  •  “...the idea of hypertext and links had actually been invented some time ago. In fact it was 1945, I think. Vannevar Bush wrote a great paper about how it could be done. But he imagined …

I got an email from my pal Ann in Winnipeg about a mutual friend from University of Kings College days, George Earles, who died earlier this year. Brian Cormier, another Kingsman, has set up a web group. At Brians site, there is a bit of a bio of George and some posts from friends which goes with …

I thought it was Want One - a offer in question, a prime need, an emphatic choice. No it is WANT one - don'geddit. I also don't get the cover art. No one hold the blade of the razor sharp sword. I don't think he is supposed to have the leather palms of myth and lore...but maybe he is. He is …

I am a lucky guy. My office is a bit separated from others and the type of law I do is lots of memo and email, little on the meeting. As a result, I can play web radio like this on BBC 6 this afternoon. There was this segment on early punk in the show at 4 pm local:  •  “At 9pm hear part 3 of …

Interesting to see the beginning of the end of chatrooms as we know them. What service do they provide other than feeding and baiting grounds for pedophiles?

Memo to me. Do not let this be said after one of the most important public appearances of my career:  •  “The premier...looked grim-faced and refused to look at the Liberal leader, scribbling instead on a notepad. David Docherty, a political science professor at Wilfrid Laurier University, was …

...or at Ben's...but...the important thing is that Sydney Crosby, Bluenoser, Rimouski Oceanic, will be all over the Stanley Cup one day.

I don't know why I dislike Toryism so much... but it is, when I think about it, the only political principle which has remained constant in my life. I have friends who have voted blue and individually they can appear to be and may actually be decent people. It's when they get together that they go …

I was listening to the AM dial yesterday as summer's close leads [as you all say with one voice] to improved amplitude modulation broadcast propagation and caught the oddest show on WHAM 1180 Rochester, New York: The WHAM wine show. I thought I was listening to good college radio. It was …

Price of a litre of full serve gas at the Ultramar near Counter and Sir John A., Kingston, this morning. Owner pumps for you and gives you a couple of candies when you pay. What's the price where you are?

Being a Scots immigrants' kid in Canada who grew up in the Maritimes was in part about being unacknowledged. Folk assume you are some sort of cousins to the local Mcs or Macs. My buddy Mark of the Beeb told me after he came back to Canada engaged that he finally figured me and my family out after …

When we worked in Poland in 1991, Ellen and I lived on the Baltic coast. Yesterday I went to the "Baltic Deli" on Days Road here in Kingston and it was a bit of a trip back. At the time I was preparing to go east 12 years ago this month, people were concerned I would starve, that the myths of the …

I have only read two books by Douglas Coupland, Generation X (1991) and Souvenir of Canada (2002), the cover of the latter shown, and only read them in the last couple of years. I am more impressed by his observation than his storytelling which makes Souvenir of Canada perfect as it is a personal …

Before the election give a $155 "tax rebate" to every NS household at a cost of $71 million. After the election:  •  “cut at least $32 million from departmental budgets, in order to balance its overall budget this year.”  •  It's like a "Kick Me" sign on Hamm's back. Do the people who do this …

Discount Blogger, a New Brunswicker in Atlanta, is speaking and entertaining comment on the new criminal code provisions on same-sex hate crimes. I must say, I am flabbergasted by the failure of this vote in the House to be unanimous. In case you are interested, here is the record from Hansard of …

We here in Kingston are missing the brunt of the storm as Isabel picked Lake Erie over Lake Ontario. Compare this map with the other one below. Small surf, stiff flapping flags, that kind of stuff. Rain later this aft. Hardly worth comment here but for the string of amazing weather we have enjoyed …

The tail end of Isabel. The tail end of Isabel. Hmm. I know a song about that.  •  The gent at your right, my left, is Jake Thackray, who, like with H.L. Mencken and Ogden Nash, keenly observed humans through his sometimes comic writing with an attention both cynical and facinated. Edmund Chattoe …

My Dad's cousin and her hubby lives at Hilton Head, a little south of the land fall epicentre. Looks not too bad for them. We'll find out how it went if/when the power comes back on down there in a few days. Being a Maritimer, I have lived through a few hurricanes, including David in 1979 which …

Boo!  •  Double Boo!!

You'll find David Swick's opinion in the now unarchiving Halifax Daily News on the changes to Tim Hortons baking practices here. The bakery has been a concern to the conscientious blogger for some time. For the international set, Tim Hortons is one of Canada's corporate and cultural icons which …

Yesterday, we had a bit of a big day here at GenX40 with 326 visits. While you are not a chatty lot, you seem to be are loyal and apparently tell your pals.  •  Just wondering if there is anything you need addressing from our end so that we can get the team on it. Topics? Infrastructure? More …

At least here in Ontario for libel and slander law, so sayeth the Court in Bahlieda v. Santa (2003) 64 O.R. (3d) 599. Mind how you go.

If you ask me - and you do - there are two pop divas from Canada, Celine Dion and Rufus Wainwright. In Canada, however, brains can only recognize one diva at a time. As a result, you are for one or the other if you are at all for divas.  They are, in fact, anti-thetical. One gave us "Millbrook" …

Well, it looks like Canada's experiment with privatization-based neo-con politics has about 2 weeks to go if polls are to be believed. Except for wacky Alberta where a stick painted blue could be elected premier and where any amount of money can be wasted because they are wading in oil …

I have a need. There is not much that my employ, family, friends and wit cannot provide me. I have eaten my onions through a winter and drank my ale for years. I cannot, however, make a flag of Norway.  •  My kin were kicked out of Norway in 1250 for not giving up the pagan way. Since that …

Watched with my Dad as Canada beat Australia 2-0 in women's soccer this afternoon with 10,066 others here in Kingston. Packed stadium. Sunny Day. Fast, heavy but clean game. The Aussie sweeper, Cheryl Salisbury, was one of the best I have seen but they had no one up-front to make plays like …

Unlike the passing of each and every "person with fame" since perhaps Peter Sellers - the news of whose passing reached me on a dirt road near McCallum Settlement, Nova Scotia working on a summer logging roads crew in 1980 - the celebrations of the life, worth and unique character of Johnny Cash …

This story reminded me how I have thought for a long time that political parties ought to be outlawed.  •  One of the reasons why municipal elections are found so boring and attract few voters is the lack of poltical parties to drum up false support based on either the overlay of blandifying pap …

In the good old days of 1996 before needy ernest blogs, e-mail clogging spam, Lord Google, when flaming and cross-posting was killing off Usenet, when you used to surf the net to find stuff knowing it was all entirely unreliable gossip, I used to copy the weekly quotes from the web version of the …

Done for a bong...or maybe a thousand bongs. He made my high school years funnier. Canada's own. Put him on a Molsons's ad.

I try to refrain from discussing PEI where I used to live. But it is just so hard to hold back sometimes.  But gee...I guess I can do so as a major player in that economy - the individual Canadian taxpayer.    Kick me if I you disagree.  •  Most places in Canada there is the sense that there are …

Ian was in New York. I was in PEI in the country, the mainline from NY to Europe above in the sky quiet, the roads still and you could hear the sea two miles inland. I watched the news all day with visiting Swedish relatives who needed translating. Soon, the con-trails of jet fighters were in the …

Even mildly attentive readers will know I am a fan of certain sports teams. I can't stand NFL or NBA but I love the AL's Red Sox, EPL's Arsenal, SFA's Morton and, perhaps most personal of my loves, the Toronto Maple Leafs of the National Hockey League. I loved them since I bought hockey cards in …

Gwynne Dyer, who frosted the cake of my teen nuclear fears with his TV series War, has written on the situation faced by the US in Iraq as the money starts to tighten. First, good call having the Barbados Advocate as a client, Gwynne. It is always important to organize your tax deductable business …

More than money or power, thought is the stuff that runs the world. Not necessarily good thought – just thought. I presume like most people, I have opinions about their own thought and capacity for good thought and, I also presume like most people, have layers of confidence in my own ability …

About twenty years ago right about now, I was entering the third year of my four-year slacker-paced BA in English Lit. I can't say I have carried the literary banner high since about then, especially as law just about killed my ability to read books - as being an usher in a playhouse just about …

I live in the half or so of the country made of one province called Ontario. Five days into the election I only know one thing. I do not want the Tories to get in again. I knew this six days ago. If I am honest with myself, the party I really agree with are the Greens but I am too much of a …

While checking out the mich-ty Morton's upcoming schedule on the BBC's site, I came across this copyright statement:  •  “Reproduced under licence from Football Dataco Limited. All rights reserved. Licence no.INTERNET/ALL/BBCON103.  •  These fixtures are copyright of the Football DataCo Ltd and …

Given that it has no posts as of 9 am Friday the 5th despite being up for days, no comments functionality (gee, I guess he doesn't care what you think) and it's by a classic high-spending, deficit-riding Tory whose model is apparently John Bucannan, how can PEI's Premier Pat Binn's campaign blog …

The darlings of those with inherited wealth and shares in big tobacco have done it again. The Fraser Institute has out done its call for a flat income tax - an idea raised in the late 1800s when children were chained to industrial machinery and consistently rejected by even the most hardened and …

My facination with things Brunel grows. This image appeared on the BBCi site this morning, the hulk of the ship which laid the Trans-Atlantic cable, the greatest ship before the Titanic, rotting near Liverpool in 1889.  •  Apparently the BBC is running a series on great events of the industrial …

When we traded in the two cars for the new one, I also got a bike which I am using at the ungodly hour of 6:30 am to get up to speed for using to go the three miles or so to work. Heeding Steve's warnings, I bought a bike which I would not mind being stolen from Canadian Tire, the Supercycle 1500 …

The last man to use Brylcreem, Ontario's Ernie Eves, called an election today. Where does the light leftist in Ontario go when Tories are due for a big butt kicking?  •  The Greens are a great place to park a vote by someone who has never backed a winner. Website - practical and useful.  They have …

This week reminds me of a week 22 years ago which I could hardly recall a week later.   Rather than regail you with tales of drinking in 1981 [which I can do if you really want me to...but no one does] let's consider what the Biggest of Als (a.k.a. Smaller than Some, Bigger than Most) learned and …

Ian's point  - about social scientists being worried about people who played video games in 1980 still enjoying video games in 2003 (do fans of baseball or hockey cause them such fear?) - reminds me of all those folk who wonder where the Spanish speakers came from in SW USA, forgetting that when …