Proof

Here it is! The proof that CSI Miami is the worst show ever made. (I couldn't even watch the entire thing).

From the Frontier

That is, White Rock BC. We've had a very good week so far, mostly relaxing, some shopping, some golfing, some sailing, viewing of the white rock and eating of japanese food. I am feeling too lazy to go into details but I thought I should put something here.

Martin Family

So I like to listen to a lot of CBC Radio podcasts. I am definitely a fan of CBC radio and podcasts allow me to listen when I want. Today I was listening to the show Ideas and an interview with Dr. Joseph Martin. I was surprised to hear that he was born in Bassano. It was even more surprising to hear him talk about delivering milk to Duchess. It seems he is part of the Brooks area Martin clan. In fact, he's also my first cousin, twice removed. That is, he's my grandfather's cousin. Turns out he is a neurologist, was the Dean of Harvard Medical School and was the recipient of the Henry G. Friesen International Prize in Health Research. Who knew? Well maybe some of the Martin family that read this that pay attention will know, but I didn't.
If anyone is interested in listening to the podcast it can be found here.
He definitely looks like a Martin.

Ubuntu for teh win

A story from PEI. *Note: This story will contain references to my geekiness. Parents with young children may be advised to turn their faces away.
So we were at the Visitor Information Centre in Charlottetown and they had some computers set up with free access to the internet. I went over to check my email. Of the 3 computers 2 appeared to be running Windows XP, but the third looked different. I took a closer look and too my glee I saw it was running Ubuntu! (Ubuntu is a distro of linux, and quite a good one at that). So I checked my email and everything worked great and I felt quite pleased with the world. But then came the best part. My brother was using one of the other computers and was trying to access Facebook. It wasn't working. I went to the Facebook website on the ubuntu computer and it worked great! Victorious!
Later on I saw a couple of older ladies trying to use the ubuntu computer and seeming to have trouble. I thought they should have a good experience with it so I came over to see if I could assist them. They told me they were trying to get to an address. Unfortunately they had open a text editing program (not so useful for internet access.) I started firefox and showed them where they could enter the address. However the ladies didn't seem to be quite up on the whole internet thing as one entered her email address into the browser bar. Since it was hotmail I helped out by taking them to the hotmail website and letting them know they could put the username and password in and then get their mail. Unfortunately they had no idea what the password was. Oh well. 1 out of 2 is pretty good.