Opened up the History sidebar to see where I wandered around the internet this week…The UK Guardian is always a good stop, especially if you’re a Kurt Vonnegut fan and want to read an excerpt from his forthcoming memoirs.
That led me over to a web site with a title I had not heard in a long time: “In These Times” follows the lead of James Weinstein, Daniel Ellsberg, E.P. Thompson, Noam Chomsky, Barbara Ehrenreich, Julian Bond and Herbert Marcuse by taking on the controversial issues for discussion.
In the IT world, Bill G. taking a further step back from M$ reminds Joel of his first interview with him back in the days when I was also learning about GOTO and using dBase to build a tool warehouse inventory system, and the hard drive was a magnetic tape.
The Scotsman is always a good place to stop by and find out what they aren’t telling us in the MSM. Harper is not so quietly trying to turn Canada from a peace making nation into one at war with the terrorist boogy man, and there is a new superhighway planned for us that doesn’t seem to get much mention right along side the little mention of all the people that have wiped off the earth in the name of freedom.
Meanwhile back on Bowen Island, we’re still wondering how many people are going to fit on the rock and there was a good attendance to hear Senator/Mayor/Coroner/Officer Larry Campbell remind the Municipal Councilors and Mayor listening, that everything was in place for affordable housing while echoing the Mayor’s comment of “fear of moving forward” being the greatest impediment.
Thankfully the water supply here is limited, and the network of well maintained trails that will literally take you everywhere under a canopy of green will be around for a while yet.