Plus ca change plus c'est la maimed chose!

Old houses being hauled away east of Toronto to be replaced by abstractions of Victorian homes....

Fox on Fairway

No idea what it was doing on a driving range! Upper Canada Golf Course, Morrisburg, Ontario

Toronto Home Baked Pies

City of Toronto limits sign next to handmade Home Baked Pies sign

At the city limits on the east side of Toronto.

Olympic Hockey

The country is more excited than when Henderson's 1972 goal won the Soviet-Canada series!

Quebec Gazette June 21 1764

This is the a copy of the first number, printed June 21, 1764 of the oldest continually published newspaper in North America. The Quebec Gazette eventually became the Quebec Chronicle-Telegraph, which I wrote a few stories for, and is still published! I saw the original and it was in good condition - I think it was printed on hemp based paper and was brown but not crumbly. Here is the link to the pdf file: http://www.scribd.com/doc/25000544/Quebec-Gazette-June-21-1764

How to download BBC videos in Ubuntu

It's nice being able to keep a copy of a video for reference on your own pc - you can't  do this with the BBC's site using the firefox add-ons that work with youtube, but you can in Ubuntu's Linux using get_iplayer and flvstreamer - both of which you can find in Synaptic Package Manager (it's "get-iplayer" , not "get_iplayer" in Synaptic).
Then follow the instructions here: http://linuxcentre.net/getiplayer/documentation and if you just want to download from the BBC News' website go down to this section:

get_iplayer --modes=flashnormal
  --pid 'tv:http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8104086.stm'

(put in the url of the page you want the embedded video from)

It will copy an .avi file to your home folder.

Huzzah!

The sound of a 50 calibre machine gun firing! It's New Years! I only hear it on New Years - they might even have tracer rounds...... wonder what the owner does with it the rest of the time. (edit 2025 - I learned these were AK-47s, not .50 calibre)