Sitting in the crowded room, the candidate is just a number. Yet another who awaits the opportunity to be brought out of the shadows and into the light. Waiting to prove their worth. Waiting to share their story. Having both a name and potential, it lies in a constant state of wait....

Okay, perhaps the intro is a little mel

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Dr. Edgar Mitchell claims that extra-terrestrial beings have visited the Earth on several occasions and there is a global cover-up of the situation in progress. Naturally, representatives at NASA were quick to play down the comments saying that they neither track nor communicate with non-human on this planet or anywhere in the

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Have you ever watched a movie and just thought, wow, that was a dang good movie but I don't think I'll ever watch it again? For whatever reason, most of us have. Sometimes we just realize the entire movie just isn't that great once we know the ending. Other times, the movie is just too depressing and don't feel the need to

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武島 (Takeshima) is a group of disputed islets situated between Japan and South Korea. The South Korean government claims this patch of land is sovereign territory and refers to it as Dokdo. Japan, on the other hand, steadfastly sticks to the position that the island group is an integral part of the country’s territory historical

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The Chicago Tribune recently posted an opinion piece (Blah, blah, blog, blog) that tried to rip into microblogging, microbloggers, and pretty much everyone born after 1982. While I might not be big on the whole microblogging segment, I really don’t see why a paper that was once viewed as being one of the better publications in

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It’s almost that time of year again. The developers at Automattic and elsewhere around the world have been putting together the latest version of WordPress, a blogging platform used on this and a billion other sites, and it’s just about ready for release. Dubbed WordPress 2.6, this next version of the popular software is certai

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USB TV tuner. what a cool package. Pinnacle have announced their new tv receivers in 2 versions both in USB sized units for use with digital tv over the air and disply on your PC or laptop. Just in time for the FCC ban on analog tv in the UHF and VHF bands, which go off the air February 2009. But can you use the government's $

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Webmail is a pretty powerful tool in the right hands, but why should we give Google, Microsoft, Yahoo or some other "free" provider a copy of our files and contacts? Why not host these things on our own webserver? Luckily, this is much easier than one would think.

I examine how to install a free Webmail application calle

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With all the competition in the web hosting market, you’d think that companies would be working tirelessly to maintain a 99.9% uptime and offering superior services for rock bottom prices. However, for reasons I can’t understand, most hosting companies lean more towards offering sub-par services for premium prices. Luckily, the

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Bill Cosby’s and Alvin Poussaint recently wrote a book entitled “Come On People: On the Path From Victims to Victors." I read this book a few weeks after it was published and, after just a few dozen pages, I was left scratching my head over the content. I’ve read dozens of sociology books on the subject of racial poverty in v

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In a world full of colour it’s sometimes amazing to meet people who have an incredibly black-and-white view of the world. Over the last few weeks I’ve had the opportunity to speak with some of the most obtuse environmentalists, via email, who attended the recent summit in Thailand about their solutions to the emissions problem

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Would you ever double-guess your decision to move to Japan? I was recently asked to write about the 26 reasons I should have stayed in Canada and, being the obtuse Canadian I am, I decided to have a little fun with the article. While everything I’ve written about here is at least 1% accurate, it’s all said in jest. I’ll admit t

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Summer is just around the corner, and the staggering heat of the Japanese sun will soon bake us into exhaustion with its ceaseless presence. Last year the mercury reached 43.2 Celcius in some parts of Gifu prefecture, and this past April we were treated to termeratures in the low 30’s. Aside from a few weeks in February, both t

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Long distance relationships can be incredibly difficult and, just like local relations, come with a host of hurdles to overcome. Just as one expects from any serious relationship, being so far from a loved one requires such pious virtues as honest, love, respect, communication and, above all, trust. While some people can make

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For five years I had been using Windows Mobile 2002 on an incredibly failure-resistant HP iPaq 2210, and had become accustomed to the speed each program would operate. All in all, most of the software I had installed was snappy, with the only exception belonging to the last few versions of AvantGo. Now that I’m using a newer iP

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