Today was the kick off to the International Freedom Festival in Windsor/Detroit. The majority of the family went to take in a rather impressive fireworks display. It leaves one with an impression of "WOW"...especially when you can "feel" the shock waves reverberate through your body. It was a pretty good time in spite of being charged with the ( Read more... )

Found another song with a great feel and vibe to it.

Check it out:


(KT Tunstall - Black Horse and The Cherry Tree)

Is it just me or does it seem unreasonable to brow beat the home owner and consumer for not using high efficiency light bulbs on rational that our power production is taxed beyond capacity when the commercial and industrial sector wastes gross amounts of power ( Read more... )

What is this about?

This is about Internet freedom. "Network Neutrality" -- the First
Amendment of the Internet -- ensures that the public can view the
smallest blog just as easily as the largest corporate Web site by
preventing Internet companies like AT&T from rigging the playing
field for only the highest-paying sites.

But Internet providers ( Read more... )

If you're in the 519 area code as of this Saturday it will be mandatory to dial 519 when placing a local call.

Oh joy...

Work was a terror this week. We are several people short staffed due to illness and vacation and the results have been taxing on the rest of the staff. Being in a department who's job scope entails the word "general" in its description I've been the jack of all trades this week with the skill set expanding still further in the coming two weeks. ( Read more... )

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Today's date.

Oh the irony.

On Wednesday May 31st 2006. Swedish Minister of Justice, Thomas Bodström ordered an already taxed police force to raid the secure server room of RiX|Port80 at the overwhelming insistence of the MPAA / RIAA and the US federal government. The target of the raid was The Pirate Bay (a torrent indexing site). Under Swedish law The Pirate Bay was ( Read more... )

I rather like this song. Check it out.

(Gnarles Barkley - CrAzY)

The brakes on my car are @#$#$#. I am irritated. I started bottoming out my brake pedal to the tune of me just barely stopping and veering from no caliper compression, but no squeaking or screeching. Which means to my knowledge I've got a leak in a brake line somewhere. To make matters worse, my E-brake is now sticking as well. I don't need this ( Read more... )