I got an email ad from Microsoft today that said in part:

"See how Windows 7 is compatible with your life and your ideas of what a PC should be at the Discovery Tour, coming to Ontario soon. An expert on Windows 7 will be happy to take you through demos and show you new features.'

I'd go, but I'd probably get a hernia when I try to stifle my laughter.

Something that I noticed over the last few days. Aside from a short clip from Janet Jackson on the day of Michael's death, the family members and close business colleagues of Michael's don't seem to be all that saddened by his passing. Seems a bit odd to me.

It's Memorial Day in The U.S. and I thought that it would be a good idea to post this link to The Faces of War. It's a collection of photographs chronicling the eforts of the Canadian armed forces during WW II. I think that their experiences typify the struggles of all the allied forces.

http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/faces-of-war/index-e.html

How We Got In This Mess

Through Win 95, Win 98 (first edition), Win ME, and now Vista we let Microsoft firmly establish mediocrity as an acceptable business standard and then stood by while every other corporate entity lowered the bar.

We put the 'Me Generation' in charge of critical sectors of our society.

We elected idiots.

Through our support at the gate and through advertising revenues based on our reckless purchasing habits we empowered the entertainment / pro-sports duopoly to pay their stars exorbitant amounts of money while foisting lowest denominator crap on us the consumers.

We let the corporations steal our self identities and lease them back to us temporarily for the price of the latest trinket.

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We are older.
We are greyer.
We won't say by how much.
We are probably heavier too. We gorged ourselves on halibut,calamari,mussels,scallops and chips and black forest cake at the Olde York Fish House.

This week I got a call from the GST folks about my 2006 return (GST is a federal sales tax in Canada that and business that sells a product or service must collect and remit to the feds). The person that called me insisted that while they had received my payment in good order, they had not received the form that goes with it. When I pointed out that they could not have credited the payment to my account without the accompanying paperwork, there was silence on the line for a couple of minutes and then I was politely informed that I would have 15 days to send in the paperwork. And of course the woman I was speaking with did not tell me where to send it or to whose attention it should be addressed.






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Stolen from Wind_4

If you were Sarah Palin, what would you name *your* children:

1)Your first-born will be named after your favorite sport.

2)Your second-born will be named after a nearby area that you're not from but you like the sound of part of the name, and maybe you have nostalgic memories of said place.

3)Your third-born will be named after another nearby place, for no reason other than you already have two children and don't have time to put much thought into another name.

4)Your fourth gets a "cool" name.

5)Your fifth gets something mythological, possibly straight out of Lord of the Rings.


1)Cheese Chaser (boy) or Bog Snorkler (girl)
2)Balls Falls (boy) or Chute -A-Blondeau (girl)
3)Pakenham (boy) or Grassy Narrows (girl)
4)John McCain Jr.
5)Ragnar Danneskjöld

Got this from Ms.Retro and it looked like something I could have some fun with. Unlike my other efforts, this one's all true -- even the cow piss.

# Copy this list into your blog or journal, including these instructions.
# Bold all the items you've eaten.
# Cross out any items that you would never consider eating (or eating again)
# Underline any you especially like

( I hid the good stuff )

I was watching the CNN coverage of the Democratic convention and the commentators were waxing on about how the democrats through the structuring of their convention were providing poor tv content. Guess we know who bid on and lost the production contract.

I was looking at the Bell Sympatico site to see if I could find some info to help solve s client's problem when I came across this promotion for Sympatico's new Total Internet service. Scroll down and check out the option for 24/7 support. And Bell wonders why its clients are leaving in droves. That I didn't find anything remotely useful to my client's problem should come as no surprise.