Sometime back in 2002, a good friend of mine commented on the world's state of affairs noting that protesters at G-8 and other meetings are one thing, but what happens when ordinary office workers or small business owners reach the breaking point and feel like picking up a piece of brick and throwing it at something?
I don't believe in violence. The pen is supposed to be mightier than the sword anyway. So instead of a brick, here is my Day Book.
The idea is not original. The thoughts, hopefully, are.
I have been asked repeatedly to present this Day Book in reverse chronological order. I will not do so; that's like writing a book backwards. I have instead implemented a date search feature. By default, this page will always show the last five days' worth of entries but you're free to change that selection.
If you're interested in reading about my trip to California, you can view the corresponding pages from my Day Book by clicking here.
There have been 8100 accesses to this page since November 13, 2004.
I'm done writing yet another draft paper on the thermal analysis of Pioneer. If this is not it, I think I'll stop for a while.
That's not very flattering to mothers everywhere... the CTV is celebrating Mothers' Day by showing cows???
Disaster in China. That's no good. A 7.8 magnitude earthquake is scary, and a death toll of several thousand is, sadly, no surprise.
The pictures from China about the disaster are intriguing. In the past, pictures of similar disasters showed third world misery, impoverished people losing their meager belongings. These pictures are different: they show a technologically advanced society, with well equipped paramedics helping the injured, and obvious signs that a massive and well organized search and rescue effort is under way.
China really grew up in the last three decades. Contrast with the pictures that come from Myanmar:
Must be great to live in a paranoid military dictatorship.
One Service Pack 3 installation, a processor replacement, and an additional fan replacement later... so far, it works. Hopefully, these are not famous last words, and it'll still work tomorrow, too.
I didn't realize that the Canadian History Channel was censoring the daytime showing of HBO's Rome until I caught this:
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As one can easily guess, it was the picture on the right hand side that was captured during the evening showing. It's curious that the series episodes have two such subtly different versions. There were other notable differences, too, such as not showing the actual murder of Cicero. Glad to know that whoever created the censored version was concerned about more than just sex and nudity.
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