Month: February 2011
photos from The Ghost
Jude invited me along to the annual Cartwright fest at their cabin in the foothills of the Rockies.
The weather, food and company was terrific. Thanks.
You can download any of my photos from The Ghost.
The NEW system on Flickr is to click the photo, then click View all sizes. … Then right click to download.
online privacy – be very AFRAID
I follow Jeff Jarvis religiously, one of the best pundits on the WWW:
At two privacy conferences—one in New York, the other right now in Victoria, B.C.—I’ve watched the growth of privacy’s regulatory/industrial complex and seen its strategy in action: scare, then sell. …
… the emergence of Privacy, Inc., as a industry built on scaring people is beginning to scare me. …
Buzz Machine – The privacy industry: Scare and sell
Jeff tells us not to be so worried about privacy online … unless you’re doing something illegal.
related – Your Privacy Online: The Internet’s Greatest Bait and Switch
comparing ‘advanced’ economies
How ‘advanced’ is your country?
Red is bad.
via Peter and Warren Long.
how to pay off your credit card debt
It’s so simple …
new hilarious blog – The Content Farm
We’re so lucky to have content farms on the internet. Not. 🙂
Blame it on the Girls – Mika
Jack likes this pop hit.
He’s got looks that books take pages to tell
He’s got a face to make you fall on your knees
He’s got money in the bank to thank and I guess
You could think he’s livin’ at ease
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
Mika was born in Beirut, … to a Lebanese mother and an American father …
Some compare him with Freddy Mercury.
I’m not a huge fan of the music, but I might follow him on Twitter.
Rick Mercer on Canadian communications costs
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
what if you had only 5min to live?
I’ve been following Alastair Humphreys‘ adventure blog closely for many months.
Check out one of his posts:
What Would You Say If You Had Only 5 Minutes Left To Live?
Life is precious. It is short. It is wonderful. It is fun. It is filled with limitless possibility.
Do good things for other people. You don’t have to do this all the time, for we are not saints. But do it more often than you have previously done. And you may be surprised how good it makes you feel.
Stop caring about stuff. With just one minute left before I die I cannot believe I wasted hours and days earning extra money to buy a bigger car, a bigger telly, and jeans with a fancy brand badge sewn on to them.
In all the spare time saved by not needing to buy expensive stuff I would encourage myself to spend more time outdoors, climbing up hills, sledging down them, jumping into rivers, walking the streets of my home town talking to people. Read more books, listen to more music, watch less lazy TV.
Laugh more, whinge less.
Run more, eat less.
Take time now and then to stop and watch the sunrise or set, watch the power of a summer thunderstorm, look up at the full moon, or kick your feet through a pile of crunchy autumn leaves. The world is a wild and beautiful place. And it is easy to forget that when we spend so much time indoors.
Don’t settle for “good enough”. Make your life as interesting, varied, exciting and challenging as possible. You will regret it if you do not.
Strive to live each minute as though you had but five more minutes to live.
I hate Minister Bev Oda
Is she a class act, or what?
… All three opposition leaders forcefully demanded Wednesday that Mr. Harper fire the International Co-operation Minister, who ordered an official document to be altered and then allegedly misled a parliamentary committee about the matter. …
Why is the government supporting this loser?
Please quietly shuffle her out of cabinet.
Rick McCharles 