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Every once in a while, we all have to step out of ourselves, take a chance, and do something a bit out of character. While anyone who has known me for for decades rather than years will know this isn’t TOTALLY out of character, the first thing people think of when they think of […]
Every sport has its eras, times in the game when equipment, style of play, and players made the game a unique iteration within a larger whole. Football has its "leather-helmet era" and tennis has its pre-open era, and its wooden racket era. As …
You may notice a few changes around here again, lol. The new version of Wordpress (the software I use to power View from the Edge) was released recently, so last night I upgraded from 2.0.x to 2.1. This change should be transparent to users for the most part …
Well, i can’t help changing the way things look around here, lol. Truth be told, I’ve had some issues with the previous layout and a reader who requires accessibility fonts, so I’m trying to find a layout that works for her. I couldn’t see anything in the old theme that would cause the problem specifically, […]
PM Stephen Harper announced this morning that the Canadian government has agreed upon an official compensation package, as well as an official apology, delivered by the PM himself on Newsworld this morning. While many of the details remain confidential, reports say the $ amount is over $10 million, which may seem like a lot […]
Frozen Words
by Lyle Bateman
Winter’s white-breath cold
Exhale shades of crystal gauze
words frozen in air
Jan 2007
Well, my first PVR is complete and functional. The problems with MythTV that I described in my last post on this turned out to be a very serious case PEBKAC (which, for those of you who aren’t in the tech support business is an acronym that stands for “Problem exists between keyboard and chair.”), a […]
In a somewhat ironic twist of history, the same day that saw George Bush give his 7th State of the Union address also marked one year in office for Canadian Conservative Prime Minister, Stephen Harper. Steve’s year was an odd one, even down to the Steve itself … when they met last year, Bush […]
I make a point not to write too much about Ann Coulter, mostly because I am loathe to give her any more free publicity than she already gets on top of that which she almost seems to gouge out with her fingernails (you’ll notice I haven’t linked to anything but myself from here … for […]
