Here is an interesting excerpt from a National Post online article.  The article is from October 27, 2008, and can be found in its entirety here: http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=911549

It is an interesting viewpoint from Peter D. Schiff (known as Dr. Doom) who thinks the U.S. government should just leave well enough alone and let the market correct itself.  I personally agree with this.  If the government won't bail out individuals losing their homes, why should they bail out the huge corporations and seven-figure income CEOs?

FP refers to Financial Post - the financial section of the National Post.  Enjoy! Read More...

It is true, I love my MTS BlackBerry Curve 8330 very much.  I'm not sure if it's something I would have originally paid for on my own, but since I get one free from work it allowed me to try it out and incorporate it into my life.  Now I'm completely hooked and if I left MTS tomorrow, I'd have to go out and buy one for myself.  Which is really high praise since I really love the iPhone and want one of those too, but I think I love the BlackBerry just a little bit more.   Read More...

I think it's pretty clear that I'm not a Conservative supporter, so who do I support?  I really liked the Green platform - they are NOT a one trick pony contrary to popular belief.  I think Elizabeth May is a very charismatic woman and is not afraid to do what's best for her country.  Therefore I voted Liberal.  (Cue needle scratching on a record player sound.)  Huh?  Well, I really really really wanted to vote Green, but I couldn't in my riding.  Sure, there was a Green candidate in my riding, but last election Rod Bruinooge, the Conservative MP and candidate in my riding of Winnipeg South, beat out the Liberals by only 111 votes.  Yikes, that's close!  So, while I wanted to vote Green, voting Liberal was the best chance to take away that blue seat.  Unfortunately, as it turned out, Bruinooge ended up beating the Liberal candidate by 5,835 votes this time around.  I should have voted Green to lend my support, but hindsight is of course 20/20.  My reasons for voting Liberal were sound.  Sorry David Cosby!  Sorry Elizabeth May!  Better luck next time!

Okay, it's been a few days and I've calmed down a lot after the election, but I did want to get this out so here goes.  But first, I must take this opportunity to bash Harper one more time.    Stephen Harper has announced a six point plan for the economy.  That's all well and good; why did he announce it the DAY AFTER THE ELECTION?!?!?!?  That guy really makes me uneasy.  I agree with the conspiracy theorists that say that Harper has some kind of nasty radical plan that he's keeping quiet until he can unleash it on us.  But alas, that is not the point of today's pos Read More...

It's finally over.  After five weeks of campaigning, the Canadian federal election has come to pass.  What has changed?  Nothing!  It was a huge waste of time and money, and everybody knew this going in.  The only good that could have come out of this election (and I really really really hoped it would) was if Elizabeth May (the leader of the Green Party) had won her seat in Central Nova.  It would have been great to have her voice in Parliament!  She struggled with a language barrier in the French debate, but really shone in the English debate. Read More...

Okay, I've finally figured it out!  

The post order was messed up because of the time zone setting.  I wrote the first post to welcome my blog to the world, and then I started configuring my WordPress installation - including little things like the time zone.  By changing the time zone from UTC to -5, that impacted all future posts, but not any past posts.  Therefore, the system was behaving as though I had written the first post five hours into the future.  I figured out that you can change the date and time a post was published, so by subtracting five hours everything is in line again.

Phew!  

Well, after thinking about it, I've decided to remove the posting via email feature from my site.  Anywhere that I can send an email, I can also post directly using the web interface, so it really only bought me geeky coolness and no actual functionality.  The only slight exception is that I could have sent emails using my MTS BlackBerry, but do I really need to be able to update my blog no matter where I am at any time?  In the words of Dr. Evil:

How about no, Scott.  

If I just can't live without jotting down my thoughts for my massive readership posterity, I can always type it up on my BlackBerry and email it to myself, then post it when I'm at a computer.

You know, blogging is kinda fun when I let myself go free.

This is peculiar...  My post order for the first three entries is wrong.  At the top is the first post I wrote using the web interface, then it's the second email test post, then finally the first email test post.  I thought blogs generally sorted with the newest post on top.  So, why is the oldest post on top, followed by the newest post, followed by the middle post last?  Bizarre.

This post is simply to see where it ends up in the list.

Well, it took me a while but I figured out how to get the emailed posts to display. You have to manually browse to /wp-mail.php in order for them to be processed. That's not very convenient! There are some automated ways around this, though. What I've done is set up a cron job on my web server to run every five minutes to basically hit that page for me. We'll see if it works. Of course the five minute interval just passed, so now I have to wait four more minutes.

Hi there,

This is simply a test post. WordPress has a cool feature where you can post by email. Here's how it works. Create a private email account that only you know about. Since I own and manage my own domain, that's very easy for me to do. If you don't manage your own domain you could see if your internet service provider (ISP) allows you to create new email accounts. You could probably also set up a Gmail account with POP enabled, but I haven't tested that (no need to in my case). At any rate, once you have this email account, you configure WordPress to log into this account to check the mail there. Anything that gets sent to this private mailbox will get posted on the blog. Pretty cool, huh?

That's it for now.
Later!

Good morning!

This is my second attempt at a blog.  I think that the first attempt failed because I wasn't sure what I wanted to put up there, so then it stagnated as a result.  Do I know what I want to do now?  Not exactly, but I've got some ideas.  I think trying to limit myself to only discuss certain things within a very narrow category was the problem.  This time around, I'm going to place no restrictions on it.  Why should I?  After all, this is my blog!  

As it stands right now, there is only the default theme selected.  This will of course be changed in short order.  I will also change the layout.  One thing that kept me away from running my site using blogging software as opposed to some other types of content management systems (CMS) is that I didn't think you could do static pages well.  As it turns out, I'm wrong.  I saw some sites/blogs using WordPress that also had many different static pages.  I liked that!  For example, if I want a section for photos, I'd like them all to be gathered together.  Maybe for something like that I'll find that having post categories won't be good enough.  Then again, maybe it will.  Who knows - this is all part of the unrestricted blogging clause I have for myself.

Well, that's it for now.  I'm off to play around with the layout, theme, etc.  Later!