We owe respect to the living. To the dead we owe only truth.
Voltaire

It begins…

No chemicals creating an Incredible Hulk a la one of this summers blockbusters, no great fanfare, no trumpets period. It’s time to start to blog.

Jeffrey Zeldman sums up my dilemma best:

Content precedes design. Design in the absence of content is not design, it’s decoration.

I’ve worried over the design …

Dr. Upstart…

…or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Blog.

I registered this domain in 2002, staking out my claim to a corner of the web, worried in the back of my mind that someone else may grab my little dot-com before I could. Little digging is required to …

About the blog design

This blogs design is a slightly modified version of the brilliant Modicus theme by Robert Ellis of Upstart Blogger.

This domain remained dormant a long time until I found Wordpress. It remained dormant thereafter while I searched in vain for a theme I liked and simultaneously tried to teach …


Colophon

This is my little slice of the blogosphere, think Horton finding the Hoo’s.

I’m nothing if not a dilettante blogger. It’s only some form of ego boost that my name even appears with ’www’ before and ’.com’ after.

This site is best viewed Safari or Firefox, and if you still use IE, well, pity you.

Syndicate

2 weeks, 3 days ago in Living No Comments

Yes Indeed


Enough Said.

July 30th, 2008 in Bits Comments Off

Brilliant

days with my father via Chris Glass

July 18th, 2008 in Thinking No Comments

Renewal

I don’t know if my father has a ‘Bucket List’ but yesterday was a big day for him as he renewed his wedding vows. It has always been the plan for my parents to renew their vows on their 40th wedding anniversary, on a cruise, with the …

June 27th, 2008 in Bits No Comments

Withnail & I:

Throw yourself in the road darling - you haven’t got a chance! Withnail

June 21st, 2008 in Thinking No Comments

Father’s Day

This is my Dad. He’s 71 years old, and it’s Father’s Day 2008 at my sister Pam’s house.

Yes, that’s oxygen you see, and the black strap holds his morphine pump.

My Dad is constantly asking his family not to cry for him. If you haven’t guessed he’s dying.

He probably won’t see …

June 3rd, 2008 in Beginnings No Comments

It begins…

No chemicals creating an Incredible Hulk a la one of this summers blockbusters, no great fanfare, no trumpets period. It’s time to start to blog.

Jeffrey Zeldman sums up my dilemma best:

Content precedes design. Design in the absence of content is not design, it’s decoration.

I’ve worried over the design …

May 17th, 2008 in Feature No Comments

Drinking my Koolaid

I’m Canadian, and I can’t vote in the American election. I am also a political junkie and have followed the Democratic race in the U.S. as closely as any American. As an earlier post shows, my choice for the nominee has been Hillary Clinton. The chief reasons for this …

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