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This morning I woke up at 6am after having a back to school nightmare. It must be all of the ads on the radio that got my subconcious thinking about this.

I’ve been out of school for almost 4 years now, but when September comes around, I still get that feeling of anticipation, finding my new schedule, seeing what kind of profs I have, who my classmates are.

This morning’s nightmare was one of the worst fears I had in schoool, public speaking. It was the first day of school, and for some reason I was signed up for an English class. In all of my 4-1/2 years at University, I took one official English class, the other English related ones were technical writing, which an Engineer is much more comfortable with. At the end of that class, we were given an assignment to write an advertisement that we would present to the class. The teacher could see my fear, and she decided that I would be the first person to do the presentation.

Fortunately I woke up at this point and avoided any more terror.

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Toronto’s Honest Ed Mirvish dies

Toronto’s iconic shopkeeper turned theatre impresario and philanthropist, Ed Mirvish, has died at the age of 92.

He died early Wednesday morning of natural causes, his family confirmed.

Although I’ve never been to Toronto, I have heard about Honest Ed’s from several different people, and it’s even been shown on one of my favourite shows, Food Jammers. It’s sad to see him go, and I hope his family continues his traditions.

#5 Road in Richmond was nominated for the Seven Wonders of Canada. Interesting choice, I guess they had too many natural wonders.

CBC.CA – Seven Wonders of Canada – Your Nominations – Number 5 Road, British Columbia

We received hundreds of nominations that spoke to the spirit of multiculturalism and co-operation in Canada. Whether for a French Immersion school that preserved both official languages, the world’s longest unguarded border, an ultra cooperative merge lane on the Lions Gate Bridge, the diversity of Kensington Market or, as in this nomination, a strip of road in Richmond BC that represents the multi-faith community in that area, it’s clear that Canadians do mostly “just get along.” Maybe this fact is a wonder in itself!

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Celebrating

HARFORD _ Alex and Tracy are thrilled to announce the birth of their first child, Matthew Preston Harford on April 18th 2007, at 8:05 pm, weighing 8lbs 6oz. Welcomed with love by very proud grandparents Anita and Ward Tetreau and Ken and Dianne Harford. A big thanks to Dr Buie and to all staff at RCH.

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Whoops, I’d been so busy posting on his blog, I never updated mine!

This is great news, I just got an email from Amazon Web Services with their new pricing.  I wonder how much SmugMug will save now?  Mr Zawodny’s going to have to redo his calculations now too.

New bandwidth price (effective June 1, 2007)
$0.10 per GB – all data uploaded

$0.18 per GB – first 10 TB / month data downloaded
$0.16 per GB – next 40 TB / month data downloaded
$0.13 per GB – data downloaded / month over 50 TB
Data transferred between Amazon S3 and Amazon EC2 will remain free of charge

New request-based price (effective June 1, 2007)
$0.01 per 1,000 PUT or LIST requests
$0.01 per 10,000 GET and all other requests*
* No charge for delete requests

Storage will continue to be charged at $0.15 / GB-month used.

Our bathroom renos are progressing. 

Over the weekend, Tracy’s dad and I got the molding in, and put the washer/dryer back into the laundry room.  We’ve got space in the living room again!

This coming weekend, the plumber is coming by to install the sink and toilet, and tap into the water lines.  A big job, and we wanted a professional to do it.

After that, it’s all nitpicky stuff, hanging the towel racks and cabinets, touching up the paint.

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Pitchfork: Air Announce North American Dates

Air have added a North American leg to their previously reported European tour and one-off show with Phoenix at Versailles. The tour is in support of the duo’s new album, Pocket Symphony.

The freshly minted dates begin April 21 in Vancouver, over a month after the European tour’s kickoff in Glasgow. Along the way, the French band will hit Coachella, unfortunately not on the same day as Jarvis Cocker, who sings on Pocket Symphony’s sublime “One Hell of a Party”.

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