Today is election day, get out and cast your vote! I suppose I was one of the 20% undecided when I went to vote this morning, so it was kind of a decide on the spot sort of thing. I decided to ignore my local constituents (would have voted Conservative) and to ignore party platforms (would have voted Green) and instead based my vote on who I would want as the next Prime Minister of Canada.
Go Team Martin!
One of the things I have been working on lately is my own application for posting to a blog using a Tablet PC! I did some searching and really only found two applications that do this so far; BLink! which has no website or download to try and to my knowledge has never been released, and WebCamNotes which worked well but didn’t do what I wanted it to. I also don’t think WebCamNotes was really designed to be an ink blog tool.
I now have the application working with .Text blogs and hopefully I can make it work with others sooner rather than later. Soon as we get the whole server situation figured out, I will create the website and make PostInk! available to download.
Posted using PostInk
Among the many commonly held stereotypes about Canadians, one of them is that as a whole, we are an indecisive country. We are fence sitters, unwilling to go entirely one way or another. Well tonight, after reading about Monday’s election, I discovered that our indecisiveness could select our next prime minister!
Did you know that the Governor General could decide who the next prime minister is? Neither did I until I read this article. It’s quite extensive, so I recommend you read it. Basically it says that if no party wins a majority, the Liberals can seek the confidence of the House, even if they have fewer seats than the Conservatives. Yet if Martin’s government is then quickly defeated in a confidence motion, Adrienne Clarkson could choose to either call another election, or appoint the Conservatives the task of forming government.
Interesting indeed. And all this time I though the Governor General was just a figurehead left over from the days of British rule.
I acquired a lot of music yesterday, almost 400 tracks, including the Spider-Man 2 Soundtrack. I also made my first music download purchase yesterday from Puretracks.com where I bought the old Lostprophets album, the new Social Code album, and Fefe Dobson’s single “Don’t Go”. The experience wasn’t as bad as I expected 🙂
Anyway, get the Spider-Man 2 soundtrack! It’s really, really good! There is a total of 15 tracks on the disc, and the overall sound is loud rock. My two favorite songs so far are “We Are” by Ana, and “Ordinary” by Train. Some other great ones are “Lucky You” by lostprophets, “Gifts And Curses” by Yellowcard, and “Did You” by Hoobastank. Another track that is quite good is “Vindicated” by Dashboard Confessional. You can see the full track listing here.
I am really glad the soundtrack is great because the movie is sure to be amazing! Like I said the overall sound is loud rock, but unlike The Punisher OST, this one is energetic and upbeat for the most part. One surprise would be Maroon 5’s “Woman”, which sounds like the Maroon 5 you would expect, so it sounds slightly out of place with the louder songs around it. All in all, excellent soundtrack!
I also got the new Velvet Revolver album yesterday, Contraband, and it is really good too! Definitely recommended.
My apologies for the delay on this one, but my site was down all of yesterday. Soon everything will be on the new server and it’ll be all good once again 🙂
Happy Belated Birthday Sharon! To celebrate, I think you should start a blog 😉
After getting back into town tonight I went to BP’s with Dickson and Andrew. After dinner we met Megan and Nick at the theater to see the new movie Dodgeball.
If you only see one comedy over the summer, see this movie! (well, see Shrek2 also, but this one rocked). It is the funniest movie I have seen in a long time – I was laughing so hard at one point I couldn’t see the screen anymore because of the tears welling up in my eyes!
I kind of expected this one to be a trailer-movie, but don’t be fooled. The trailer is extremely funny, but its just the tip of the iceberg! The movie is full of many more funny scenes and sequences. Like Andrew said, whoever wrote the script for this movie was a genius.
If you can dodge a wrench, you can dodge a ball!
So I am writing this a little after the fact, but that’s what happens when the work starts! Friday was a busy day, and extremely hot in Victoria. The temperature outside was easily over 30 again, so it was kind of nice to have air conditioning all day! My job consisted of taking pictures of the various presenters and events, selling CSLA t-shirts, and doing the minutes for the two AGM’s that were held at the end of the day.
After the meetings ended, Martin, Jenninfer, Toni (Jenn’s friend) and I went for dinner at the house of one of Jenn’s past graduate students. We had delicious salmon off the barby and went through about four bottles of wine. It was delicious!
This morning was early as I had to be at the conference center for 8:30. After locating the t-shirts and getting them put away safely I basically got to enjoy the free food, take pictures, and listen in on the sessions until noon. My flight left Victoria at 2, and let me tell you, it wasn’t easy. Such wonderful weather!
All in all it was a great trip for me – more relaxing than work which is nice for a change. Victoria is definitely a place I would visit again!
Ah the last day of rest before the work begins! Today was another relaxed day. I met Martin at noon and we went for lunch and wandered around downtown, checking out the various shops and eateries. Eventually we decided to cross the bridge and check out the view from the very swank Delta hotel – awesome view, facing the Empress and legislature buildings. We took the ferry back which was neat.
After relaxing in the hotel for a bit it was time for dinner and we just checked out a little cafe and had salad. Much too hot out to eat anything too heavy. After going with no Starbucks for the first part of the trip I hit two different ones today! Nothing like a good Frappucino on a hot day 🙂
Tomorrow I being my role as cameraman/secretary. Should be interesting! I just hope the conference center is air conditioned!
Second day in Victoria, hooray! It was an absolutely beautiful day, sunny and warm (around 27) and every now and then a very slight breeze to make it comfortable. As I said, it was a sleep-in day, so I met Martin and Jennifer at their hotel at noon.
We decided to borrow the 4Runner of one of Jennifer’s friends and just spent the day exploring. We drove all the way up the east coast of the city and a bit further north and saw the incredible views, homes and gardens. Just insanely gorgeous homes and manicured gardens. Then we crossed the island and went to one of the Provincial Parks, right on the ocean. It was so nice Jenn and Martin started paying attention to the real estate for sale!
We went for dinner at an Italian restaurant in the city and then just relaxed in the hotel. On my way back from their place I tried to go to Starbucks (about 9:30 here) but it was closed!! What kind of Starbucks (besides the one in Barcelona) closes so early?! This is the west coast for crying out loud, home of the non-stop coffee drinkers. I am thinking it might be because it is in the Chapters (think Whyte ave Chapters upstairs) so I will use MapPoint a little later to find another one.
Tomorrow is another relax day before the work of Friday and Saturday, so Martin and I are going to go exploring. The only work I did today consisted of Jennifer handing me my Press Pass for the conference 🙂
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