Month July 2005

A Day in the Life: Salt Pills

When I was between 19 and 25 my friends and I would take long bicycle trips, often several hundred kilometers. Frequently we would travel over 130 km per day. Usually the first days were the hardest. This was the time…

Google Maps

A colleague noted in his blog the disappearance of Apple Computer Inc. from the face of the earth, as reported by Microsoft in their Virtual Earth site. Regardless of these events, Google Maps does provide enough coverage to do some…

A Day in the Life: Bomb scare on the Subway

The Toronto Transit Commission Subway was closed this morning for almost one hour. It’s Canada’s first subway, but it wasn’t closed because of age. It was reported there was a bomb threat. Later in the afternoon, I phone my wife…