As of today, I’m no longer part of the mid-town Toronto Bandwidth Thievery Corporation. Cable modem was installed today, much earlier than anticipated, and if one day I meet Mike or Brian in this building, I will silently thank them for being generous (or blissfully ignorant) enough not to put encryption on their wi-fi.
The PowerBook [...]

Dear David,
It’s been two months since you’ve been gone and the world is such a different place without you.
I still have visions of you rounding the corner to tell me everything will be alright. You were always good at giving comfort and understanding, but now I have to find that on my own. I’m sure [...]

(I took this photo a year ago, at the back of the house in Pennsylvania.)
Journal 11/8 (1984) - Frost
During the summer, frost is pretty and makes pictures on your windowpane but in winter it’s the nasty stuff you have to scrape off your car windows. I had to scrape some off this morning, because no [...]

I FINALLY obtained a copy of the lease agreement today, which allows me to put everything else in motion — services, identification, et cetera.
While I was at Eaton Centre for aforementioned business, I got a phone call from Germany. I won’t get into it now, but it was shocking news. If it wasn’t Friday rush [...]

I put in an online order for Bell’s landline service so I could also order their DSL.
I had Roger’s cable service briefly in Vancouver, and it was horrible, so I switched to Telus ADSL and had that for years. Years of smooth sailing, until some colossal blunders in 2004. I had incredibly good fortune [...]

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Perchance, I was reading the Toronto forum on Flickr to see if they’d had a meetup in February yet, and noticed that it was scheduled for the 16th! I decided to go.
This is the first Flickr-based event I’ve attended since Vandigicam: Code Blue on August 4th, the day before David phoned me from the hospital. [...]

T.O. Photobloggers 2: Sunday 2.26.2006, 6:30pm
The Apple Store Yorkdale will feature the second Toronto Area Photobloggers event on Sunday, February 26th at 6:30pm.
Presenters include
Chris and Jessica of istoica,
Payam Rajabi of ColourBlind.ca,
Sam Javanrouh of Daily Dose of Imagery,
Shahin Edalati of Foto Project, and
Taku Kumabe of media smaku with the latest issue of U&I Magazine.
Special Presentations on [...]

The weekend before last, I was driving through torrential rain along the I-476 in Pennsylvania, listening to music from my iPod via the car stereo. This song came on, and the lyrics echoed in my mind as I replayed our last flight together, the brilliance of the setting sun before us as we approached the [...]

Deep roots are not reached by the frost
– J.R.R. Tolkien
In memory of Eileen Perry (1947-1996) whose dedication and friendship will always be remembered by her Ontario Public Service Colleagues.
June 24, 1997
I came across this tree and memorial plaque walking along Queen’s Park South. I mulled over the Tolkien quote for a while as I continued [...]