My 2 Cents
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I never believed women could rock. I know that sounds sexist, so please allow me to elaborate. My musical preference is hard rock. I enjoy an edgy guitar sound with angst-riddled lyrics delivered in a baritone voice. For the most part, I prefer my music rough and that means I've
The key U.S. assertions leading to the 2003 invasion of Iraq - that Saddam Hussein had chemical and biological weapons and was working to make nuclear weapons - were wrong and based on false or overstated CIA analyses, a scathing Senate Intelligence Committee report asserted today. Is anyone shocked
With Six Feet Under on hiatus for a week due to the Independence Day holiday in the States, I find myself with a little free time this Sunday night. For whatever reason, colleagues, friends and family often ask me about my preferred applications for doing everything from ripping CDs to
Internet Explorer users, there's an article you should read. Are the Browser Wars Back? by Paul Boutin appeared yesterday on Slate, a website owned by Microsoft. The author does an excellent job of explaining why Firefox 0.9 is the superior browser and why you should switch as soon as
The alternative charts are anything but alternative these days. When is the top 50 selling alternative albums in Canada compiled from a national sample of retail store and mass merchants' reports collected, compiled, and provided by Nielsen SoundScan not really the top 50 selling alternative albums in Canada compiled from
I remember the day I learned Candlestick Park in San Francisco was changing its name to 3 Com Park. At the time, I thought it was sacreligious. How could they just change the name like that all because some company paid them for the rights? Little did I know it
There's a growing trend in the United States that sound an awful lot like payola. As you'll read in this Reuters article, many record labels are shelling out thousands of dollars per week to have songs played between midnight and 06:00. You see, they have these songs aired as
I'm sorry if I seem like I'm bitching about the cost of things these days and the hidden surcharges that seem to be hitting me left right and center, but it seems like I'm being hit up for an extraordinary amount of cash at every turn these days. Over the
I hate Ticketmaster, but what choice do I have? Today, I purchased a couple of tickets to see The Tragically Hip. Each ticket was a fairly reasonable $30.50, and that includes taxes. I don't mind coughing up $30.50 to see a band like The Hip live. A couple
When Attorney General John Ashcroft warned of an attack planned on America planned for sometime in the coming months, we all took notice. In warning Americans to brace for a possible attack, Ashcroft cited what he called "credible intelligence from multiple sources," saying that "just after New Year's, al-Qaida announced
Affectionately known by Canadians as The May 2-4 Weekend, today is Victoria Day, a statutory holiday in this country. On a weekend when many head North to the cottage or camping and others look forward to fireworks it once again rained cats and dogs. It always rains cats and dogs
We just got back from Ottawa. Taryn's Grandmother had an eightieth birthday party so we made the long road trip east for the occasion. The birthday party was held in a restaurant in the Chateau Laurier Hotel, way too swanky an establishment for my liking. I would have held it
Earlier this week I received three emails from people telling me not to buy gasoline yesterday. You probably had this email forwarded to you. This mass strike was going to wreak havoc with the gas companies and the price was going to drop as a result. I didn't need to
When a rock band comes out of somewhere like Ajax, Ontario, I try very hard to like them. "Fat Lip" was a cool tune with a cool video which gave hope to my cause. Sum 41 was selling a tonne of albums and were quickly becoming princes in the pop-punk
The triumph of cellphones, portable e-mail devices and other mobile tools, which are all declining in price and increasing in use, is slowly but surely eroding the market for public telephones. Soon, there will be no pay phones left. I remember when the movie Phone Booth came out reading about
Once in a while as a treat, James gets to go to McDonald's for a Chicken McNugget Happy Meal. He gets apple juice, chicken, fries and a pretty cool toy at the end. I myself have fond memories of Happy Meals from back when I was a kid. Last week,
One of my all-time favourite bands is The Tragically Hip. I've loved them since I first heard "Blow At High Dough" on Q107 back in 1989. I remember vividly going to Sam the Record Man at Yonge and Dundas to pick up the album Up To Here with my buddy
Whenever James does something he's proud of or even something remotely cool, we exchange high fives. Yesterday, he was trying to close a rather tricky cannister and when he finally succeeded, he ran over and we exchanged a series of exhilerating high fives. It makes him happy, it makes me
I'm old enough to remember a time when I actually had to visit a bank to pay a bill or transfer money from one account to another. Seriously, if I owed money on the Visa or if I had a cable bill to pay, I had to physically visit a
The Globe and mail is reporting that the relationship between the CBC and Coach's Corner host Don Cherry is so strained that they are preparing to sever it at the end of the Stanley Cup playoffs. I don't agree with everything Don Cherry says, but I'm a big fan of
How would you feel about a person who thinks it is okay to grab your shirt and use it clean their eyeglasses? This website asks that very question and then shows video evidence of Dubya doing just that during a commercial break on the Late Show with David Letterman. To
Yesterday I passed not one, but two gentlemen walking along the side of the road with a portable gasoline container. Clear, they had each run out of gas and had to walk to a gas station to buy enough fuel to get their respective cars going again. They weren't going
We as a society have seriously devalued the meaning of the word "hero". We toss it around so lightly it's lost all substance. The player who caught the Superbowl winning touchdown pass isn't a true hero. Pat Tillman is a true hero. Pat Tillman abandoned his $3.6 million a
I just read an article in today's Globe and Mail that suggests a postsecondary education has less benefit today than it did in the 90s. "Last year, for the first time since 1997, blue-collar employment grew faster than the number of white-collar jobs." After high school, I started attending school
Courtney Love is a lot of things, but being poor isn't one of them. Or is it? According to a Reuters article, she is in debt to the tune of at least $4 million. "I'm covered with loser dust" she told Blender magazine. "I found out that our dog walker
