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April is the cruelest month
Can we have spring back, please? Today Snow changing to rain this morning. Local snowfall amount 2 cm. Wind east 20 km/h. High plus 2. Tonight Rain changing to snow this evening. Snowfall amount 5 cm. Wind east 20 km/h becoming light this evening. Low zero.
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AIM, MSN for Blackberry
I’m not sure how many readers have Blackberrys, but if you’ve been frustrated with only having Google Talk and Yahoo! Instant Messenger unless you wanted to fork out the cash for WebMessenger or Verichat (now discontinued), you’ll be happy to know that Blackberry-native AIM, MSN, and ICQ are apparently on their way. Verichat apparently got […]
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Three lists
Sometime in the last year or so, the Ottawa Public Library replaced or upgraded its online catalogue, Lirico. The new one is a giant improvement over the old, not only because it supports the library lookup bookmarklet but also because it has a lot of useful features to do with managing requests — you can […]
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The merits of shoe trees
I bought new shoes this weekend! They’re nothing special, just a pair of cheap lightly-antiqued brogues from Aldo that I’ll wear with what’s becoming my typical work outfit of straight-leg raw jeans and a slim button-up shirt with the sleeves rolled way up. You can see how the thin leather’s already starting to crease a […]
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Really cheap Booq laptop bags
I just noticed that Booq Bags has a big closeout sale going on with really low prices on some discontinued laptop sleeves and bags, especially in odd sizes (12″ and 17″): $20 PowerSleeves (regularly $90-$130), $5 (!) and $25 Vyper cases (regularly $60), $60 Mambo backpacks (regularly somewhere around $200, I think) and 99 cent […]
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Buddhism 102: The Eightfold Path
In my last post about Buddhism, I talked about the Four Noble Truths. This time I’m going to concentrate on the fourth Noble Truth: The path to the cessation of suffering is the Eightfold Path. As I mentioned before, the fundamental problem of Buddhism is suffering. The Eightfold Path is the way out: a program […]
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Buddhism 101
The best way to begin talking about Buddhism is to ask a simple question: What is it all about? Conveniently for us, there is a straightforward answer to that question in the form of the Four Noble Truths, which outline the whole point of Buddhism. (Incidentally, you’ll notice that Buddhists are fond of numbered lists. […]