I have just found out that my ex-wife (Angela McCleery) and her husband (Steve Lindsay) who reside near Oxford Station and Oxford Mills, Municipality of North Grenville, Ontario, along with my 22 year old son (James Scott) and Steve’s 17 year old son Sean, have lost everything in a house fire. The house burnt to […]
A Horrible House Fire Tragedy – Can You Help? Read More »
Earlier, my business partner and I were messing around with an experimental script to help with obtaining some faster search engine results from Google. What we were trying to do was find a way to quickly see the top one hundred results for a search query so we could parse the results and get what
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When a tragedy strikes anywhere, most of us feel a sadness and some empathy. When it strikes close to home and to someone you know, it is even worse. Where is Cheryl Rowe? I grew up with the Rowe family; they lived just down the road from me. I can recall playing with Randy, Mitch,
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On their way to get married, a young Catholic couple was involved in a fatal car accident. The couple found themselves sitting outside the Pearly Gates waiting for St. Peter to process them into Heaven. While waiting, they began to wonder…. Could they possibly get married in Heaven? When St. Peter arrived they asked him
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“Democracy” at it’s… uh… best? 😛 Guess we’ll get to hear the excuses, the complaints, and what the “plan” is for next time to steal more in order to give it away for votes. Those who participated have no right of complaint though. It’s their system! Participation, especially because there is no coercion to vote,
I’ve just discovered that Raul Hilberg, the noted and generally respected World War 2 Holocaust historian and scholar, passed away on August 4, 2007. One of these days, when I have lots of time, I’d like to read his two volume “Destruction Of The European Jews.”
“”Put all students of different religions in one building together?” asked Nora. “It would be like Jerusalem – religious wars.” ~The Toronto Star
Is This What They Are Teaching? Read More »
Not sure if this is a first for me or not – but had to turn the A/C on in the house early this evening. At one point today, my automobile outdoor thermometer registered 35C outside! Last year, the weather in October was much cooler with snow by this time north of Orangeville. Today, the
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Some know I travelled to Alberta last week. I found the security issues to be odd. First, what is the point of the resealable plastic bag for liquids and gels? And is Lypsyl (similar to Chapstick) really a “gel?” I had to put my tube of chapped lip stuff in a plastic bag. In Toronto,
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Ok, I think we are. Some issues that were brought to my attention in regard to some WordPress behaviour that I really did not like and did not have time to deal with motivated me to go on a bit of a “hiatus.” No – not a hiatus – but removing much of what I