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Google Maps Navigation, Google Music Search and a Google View of the Internet in Five Years

This will possibly be the end of GPS companies such as Garmin and Tom Tom (their stocks have already plummeted since the announcement):Google also announced that soon, any search for a song or band will result in a stream of the song being returned from various partners which will be able to be played in […]

Posted 30 October 2009 § Internet § Main Page § PopCulture § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

World's Best Wired Cities

It's like looking into the future…

Posted 22 October 2009 § Internet § Main Page ‡ Comments (0) °

Music Monday – "So I've been telling old stories, singing songs/That make me think about where I came from"

2009 is apparently the 250th birthday of Robbie Burns, a fact I only discovered while searching for clips from one of my favourite Saskatchewan singer-songwriters, Eileen Laverty.  I'm way past Robbie Burns Day but I'll still post it here…such a beautiful song…three days in a row with content to bring a tear to your eye!

Posted 22 September 2009 § Main Page § MusicMonday § Saskatchewan § Video ‡ Comments (0) °

Crop Checkin'

On the long weekend, we made a loop hitting Fort Qu'Appelle (a resort community an hour outside Regina), Katepwa Beach, our family cottage on the other side of the lake, our farm, Indian Head where I grew up then down to Weyburn to spend the night with Shea's folks at their camp site.  Here's one […]

Posted 16 August 2009 § Main Page § Pace § Photo § Saskatchewan § Shea ‡ Comments (0) °

Music Monday – "Snow's so merciless/Poor old Montreal/In spite of everything that's happened/In spite of it all"

Time to break out the long-neglected “CLA Conference” tag.  Just got word today that I was approved to go to this year's CLA conference in Montreal at the end of May!  I'm especially happy about this because I'd had a feeler extended to see if I'd be coming to the conference and available to sit […]

Posted 06 April 2009 § Library § Main Page § MusicMonday § Video § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Vegas Photos Are Up!

Although I have to admit that I didn't take nearly as many as I normally would – both because I often find that having a lens to your eye all the time removes you from the experience and also because, frankly, you can go to Flickr and find photos of anything we visited – the […]

Posted 16 March 2009 § Main Page § Photo § United States ‡ Comments (0) °

Five Things I Wanted To Do In Vegas That I Never Got Around To

1. Visit one of their local libraries.  2. Take in a second show besides “Love” (Penn & Teller would've been awesome as would have any of the other Cirque shows)3. Eat at In 'n' Out Burger – a no-frills California chain that's sort of like McDonald's but with high-quality, healthy ingredients.  4. Put $10 on […]

Posted 15 March 2009 § List § Main Page § United States ‡ Comments (0) °

Friday Fun Link – "You Always Double Down on 11" (March 14, 2009)

Apparently they had cameras following me around in Vegas.  Here's a clip from the upcoming documentary…

Posted 14 March 2009 § FridayFunLink § Main Page § PopCulture § United States § Video ‡ Comments (0) °

Live From Las Vegas, It's…A Quick Summary of My Trip To Vegas

Sitting in McCarran airport in Vegas just waiting for our flight departure.  After a couple *really* close calls on the way down – both in Regina (long security line-up) and Calgary (half-hour delay leaving Regina due to aforementioned long security lines meant we had half an hour to sprint through Calgary airport, clear customs, find […]

Posted 13 March 2009 § Main Page § United States ‡ Comments (0) °

Music Monday – "How I wish that there were more/Than twenty-four hours in the day/Cause even if there were forty more/I wouldn't sleep a minute anyway" – March 2, 2009

So, on somewhat short notice, Shea and I have decided to head for Sin City (except that we'll have Pace in tow so “sin” will be restricted to too much sugar and staying up later than 8pm.)  How this came about is that my parents called last weekend that they'd won a free flight to […]

Posted 03 March 2009 § Main Page § MusicMonday § United States § Video ‡ Comments (0) °