This past weekend, My Girlfriend and I trekked down the Niagara wine region to take advantage of the “Discovery Pass”. This was a $30 ticket that allowed you tastings at six (of a possible twenty-eight) wineries in the region on Friday and/or Saturday. Each of these tastings was accompanied by some sort of carefully selected [...]
I’ve gotta say … this Spore thing is pretty fun. I mean, sure, I had to update my DirectX drivers to run the program, and it’s a 200+ mb install, but otherwise it was very easy to get up- and- running. Creating life is pretty straightforward, although the demo version shows you just how much [...]
I think I Twittered about this game awhile back and I know I’ve been seeing references to it around the net with increasing frequency these last few weeks, but given what tomorrow is, that’s no surprise. Don’t waste time marking your calendars ’cause by the time you read this you can probably jump right to [...]
The Canadian Polaris Music Prize, similar to the UK Nationwide Mercury Prize or lesser known US Shortlist Music Prize, now enters its third year. New this year, the Polaris Jury has decided to publish the ‘long list’ of nominees (40 in total) to the public in the hopes of further promoting Canadian music.
The Long [...]
The tour books are correct: walking out of the train station in Edinburgh gives you a view of the Castle almost immediately. It’s a welcoming entrance to the city.
We arrived in town, grabbed a taxi to the hotel, got settled, etc., however we didn’t end up going back downtown that night. In the morning, [...]
Almost seven years ago, my friend David and I went over to Europe on what was my first trans-Atlantic flight. On that trip, we visited London (UK), Bilbao (Spain) and Lisbon (Portugal) over a period of about three weeks. While I’ve done some traveling since then, last month I had the chance to return to [...]
I did a test earlier that wasn’t anything more than the word “Test” and it worked, so here goes something more substantial…
Testing, testing … 1, 2, 3 …
Yup, everything seems to be working again. What was the problem? I don’t really know to be honest. I tried posting a nice long message somewhere around May [...]