Nathanael's party today went great - the rain held off for just long enough so that we could enjoy the park, and even play a bit of ball. (My gift to him was a T-ball, T-Ball bat and a mitt. I got myself a mitt too!) Everyone enjoyed hot dogs and hot chocolate, and then we opened the gifts up. Here's some pics of the meal.

Comments back on - but now moderated!

OK. now that I've had time to think about this....

I've turned the comments back on - but this blog is now moderated.

More later.

Until later

As a precaution, I've disabled comments for right now. For the amount of comments I get, it may not be worth having.

Taking Responsibility for your words.

It's bound to happen - you get attacked for who you associate with. I don't mind if someone wants to spout off at me, heck, I don't mind if you flame me. But whoever this is - at least have the guts, honour, and courage to make yourself known. Calling yourself anonymous and spamming my personal email is nothing short of reprehensible and - dare I say it? - un Christian! Here's the message that was sent to me:

Springs Church teaches the timeless messege of Materialism and trying to serve 2 Gods . " Get rich and have it all ! " Leon and his band of rich real-estate developers are leadind the blind to the river, like mice and the pied-piper ! Why buy a Chevette, when you can own a SUV ! Help destroy the ozone layer with his message. On Earth as it is in heaven ! So I guess heaven would be destroyed also ! Sick puppies !!! --Posted by Anonymous to For lack of a better title - it's all mine.... at 4/22/2006 04:50:25 PM


There, done. Netticutt lessons are needed my friend. Be willing to teach you if you are willing to be taught. You might want to scroll down the screen and read the post from Thomas A Kempis' Imitation of Christ - regarding gossip. As Stan Lee would say - N'uff said!

Chris.

The Rocket!

Went and saw The Rocket Friday night - Excellent movie. highly reccomend it to everyone!

just finished reading a series of books - somewhat older ones, but with an interesting premise. If the Confederate States had WON - what would happen?
The author's name is Harry Turtledove. He takes this premise right up to the first world war, with the US allied with Germany - and they win. Interesting writing, and it puts into place how one little event affects a multitude of events that occur after it....

 

Here's photos of Nathanael skiing a couple of weeks ago. We went to the Windsor Park Golf Course in Winnipeg - they turn it into a complete ski trail system each winter. You have to know how to handle the hills, though! 

More along the lines of sound programs....

Found another one - I wanted to do short sound clips of instruments for students to listen to, and found Audacity - freeware that allows you to do clips of WAV and MP3 files. Doesn't handle Windows Media without more plug-ins, though.

Pandora and Songbird

Listened with interest earlier this week to CBC as I heard the local afternoon program. They were discussing online music services:

Pandora is an online service that currently (sadly) is only available in the US - it asks you what kind of music you would like to do a search for, and then creates a radio channel with just that style of music in it. Tried it out, it works great. Hopefully they get this setup for Canada very soon.
Apparently, there is also a way to hook this up to your stereo! It's called Squeezebox. Check out both of these links!

Songbird is a Media Player with a significant difference - it's Open Source. Anyone who has used Open Office, Mozilla or Thunderbird will find this interesting. Give it a bit more time, and this will give Real Player a Challenge!