Hi there.

I am now posting on a regular basis on the David Janes' Code Blog.

Java/JSP vs. Python and the 21st Century

I fully approve of this trend (source article):

Pretty soon, all the surburban housewives will be getting pictures of their minivans tattooed on their hindquarters. Probably for at least a few of them, with the tedious popularity of tattoos, it will be the only empty "canvas" left on their bodies.

When my daughter reaches university age, I want tattoos to be fully associated as something "old people do".

I guess we can retire Champaign Socialist in favor of Cocaine Socialist.

If I had a million dollars,
I'd buy me some blow.
If I had a million dollars,
And some fangirls to ... (etc)

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I am never ever going to vote for John Tory, nor as far as I can tell are any of my conservative neighbors, friends or family. While John Tory is leader we are not going to donate money to your party. If John Tory leads the party during the next election, we are not going to allow you to put Progressive Conservative signs on our front lawns.

And the next time that fool opens his mouth about the LCBO, perhaps it should be discuss privatization rather than plastic bags.

As I understand it, Obama and I have a lot in common: we both spent twenty years of our lives sleeping through church.

American's knowledge of religion shallow?

Stephen Prothero, author of the recently published Religious Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know -- And Doesn't, agrees that the Good Samaritan story is germane to the immigration debate because it is all about how Jesus said we should treat strangers.

"First of all, how many Americans actually know the Good Samaritan story? I'm not sure many do," said Prof. Prothero, chairman of Boston University's religion department. "Second, should we be basing policy on biblical passages? If we're going to, how can we have any reasonable conversation if we don't know the story?"

An awesome little project, via Danny:

1. The first article title on the Wikipedia Random Articles page is the name of your band.
2. The last four words of the very last quotation on the Random Quotations page is the title of your album.
3. The third picture in Flickr's Interesting Photos From The Last 7 Days will be your album cover.
4. Use your graphics programme of choice to throw them together, and post the result.

Making the most of the first snow of 2008 by going skating with Trinity-Anne (unfortunately, at the poor ice Nathan Phillips Square) and then sliding at Hogg's Hollow.

We were watching Futurama -- Bender's Big Score -- this morning and Trinity-Anne asked me "Is there really an Al Gore?". Answer: "Nobody knows, Trinity, nobody knows".