
Ever wondered? No? Well, here’s the answer anyway: This beautiful video courtesy Live Link with a hat tip to Twitter user Melly. ...

The Waters of Mars (debuting on Canada’s Space network, Saturday, December 19 at 9 p.m.) is the culmination of a number of things. It is the beginning of the end of the tenth Doctor as his regeneration saga begins. ...

The image above of Main Street, Niagara Falls, NY, is courtesy Google Maps’ Street View. We spontaneously dropped everything today and made a day trip out to Burlington’s Ikea and, beyond that, Niagara Falls. We even crossed the border and paid a visit to Niagara Falls, New York. We...

I’ve been in the news twice this week. Yesterday, the Sun’s Jenny Yuen contacted myself and Steve Munro, asking for our comments on the TTC’s decision to hike fares by as much as 16% come the new year. Stev...

We survived the week of Vivian’s fourth birthday. Actually, it all went very well. We had the grandparents over for cake on Monday, and then on Tuesday went over to Vivian’s school for the in-school celebration. Fi...

A short post, I’m afraid, as I’m about to be wired up for my second sleep lab test. This one will test the effectiveness of the sleep apnea machine in stopping my storing. Th...

A few announcements and updates about what we’ve been doing this week. First of all, I’ve just heard that the next Doctor Who special, the last David Tennant episode before the two-part finale over Christmas, is due in two weeks. Th...

A couple of weeks ago, I started hooking myself into a machine at night. This machine isn’t loud. It’s about as quiet as a fishtank pump. Through a mask fitted over my nose, the machine pumps filtered air into me, literally down my throat, in order to keep the passageway open. It...

On Wednesday, I went into Toronto for a writing day. My first stop was at the Chapters at Bloor and Runnymede where the Canadian Children’s Book Centre and Harper Collins had set up a special presentation for local schools. ...

It’s hard not to feel sorry for the average workers at CanWest, who now face an uncertain future during economically troubled times thanks to the decision by the company to put the National Post and Global Television into receivership, but I have to square that with the fact that, since it was f...

And, as an antidote to my previous post about someone looking so completely backwards, I give you: a mash-up of Carl Sagan, singing. ...










