It's currently daytime on All Hallow's Eve... in a few hours children will begin dressing up and trick or treating door to door... as I'm living in an apartment in a rough part of town, kids don't tend to come to my door - but that's fine. I couldn't afford to buy them candy anyways.

I think that, after 6 years of dedicated service, this monitor is reaching the end of its usefulness.

Over the past few days, the tones on screen have been steadily shifting into the blue spectrum, only sporadically going back to full 16-bit color.

I watched Toy Story on ABC this evening. A good example how behind the times I am: I saw it for the first time.

My favorite scene was right at the end:

"Buzz, you're flying!"

"No, not flying... just falling with style!"

Ah... the joys of getting an extra hour of sleep!

Standard time came back to Montreal today... the "fall back" that comes after "spring forward" finally came into effect.

Anthrax 'could have US source'.

This is something I've suspected from day one.

More geeking for my 'blog... I just downloaded the most recent version of blogBuddy, the remote app that makes blogs update-able remotely, the way that Live Journal does... we'll see if this works well.

This evening on Entertainment Tonight I learned that cartoonist Al Hirshfield, famous for his caricatures of celebrities, is 98. He's been a cartoonist for 80 years.

That in itself is fantastic, but even more so was actually seeing him. He doesn't look his age at all! He looks aged, granted, but I've met 70 year-olds who look older than he does.

We should all aspire to achieve that.

It must have been a temporary glitch, as I suspected... blogback is working fine now.

Hmm... the blogback comment interface seems to be having a small glitch right now... don't let the error messages scare you. I'm sure it'll be back soon.

Jazz Pianist Returns to Trio Setting

This is exciting news: Chic Corea reuniting with two members of his classic sextet Origin.

Sorry I haven't posted in a few days... I'm still coming to grips with the new reality:

Bio-warfare is happening now.

I still don't think the anthrax situations are from bin Laden; I think some other sicko is using him as a cover for their own insanities. Still, just the fact that chemical weapons are now being used - and on innocent civilians - is just mind numbing on top of the chilling things that have happened already.

New net domain fiasco. And the headaches begin...

Entertainment TV takes role in manhunt. Such attempts at getting the public to help have been successful for other searches. I'm hoping this one succeeds too. At least a little.

I'm once again seeing a side of the media that disgusts me.

It's bad enough that Peter Jennings at ABC interrupts shows often with 30-minute "Special Reports" that contain nothing as far as actual news... now, thanks to the inept workings of the Canadian media, a Website done for only parody - I'll say it again: PARODY, was pulled from the 'net because the Webmaster had enough harassment.

The site in question was called "Bert is Evil". Said site just played on a joke: that Bert from Sesame Street was actually involved in some of the most heinous actions of the past century.

One photo was an image made a few years ago, of Bert behind Osamu bin Laden. This was after the bombing of a few embassies in Asia. Unfortunately, some scumbags made posters of the image for an anti-America rally in Afghanistan recently. The vultures who used it had no idea who Bert even was.

This led to major media furor, which led to the Canadian press hounding the Webmaster, which in turn led to him saying "Screw it!" and closing the site.

Shame on you, media vultures. Shame. On. You.

A thought about the biological threat in Florida hit me: the gestation period for anthrax is 60 days, to find out if you have it.

The terrorists wouldn't use that. They wouldn't have any results of their evil actions for too long.

We've started the wave of fear that every bit or horrid fate is now caused by terrorists... today's example being an outbreak of the anthrax virus at the major tabloid publishing house of National Enquirer and The Globe, among others.

Was this the result of terrorist actions? I'm not so sure... but we can't hide under a rock in fear of everything being done by these evil men (and I'm not gender typecasting here; in the extremist beliefs, women are treated as less than 3rd class citizens).

Rumsfeld: First wave of attacks very successful.

I don't know who's stating the truth about zero civilian casualties or many, but I don't believe a word from Taliban mouths.

On Video, bin Laden Lashes Out at U.S. So, the hypocritical, hateful bastard spoke.

Even if he can't be directly linked to the horror of September 11th, he has orchestrated other acts of hate and murder around the world... and the 'peace' he calls for in Palestine would be nothing short of genocide.

Enjoy hell when you get there, bin Laden. You've earned it.

Bush: Battle Joined. And so, it begins...

Goodbye Netcaptor... I've been using this great alternative browser interface for over a year now, even using their various beta versions the past few months.

Thing is, they announced a few months ago that the product was becoming shareware. After a month trial, you had to pay for it.

That's what killed Netscape's market share. Why pay for a browser when Internet Explorer's free? They changed their tune, but it was too late.

Now Netcaptor is cutting their throats. Oh well.

I heard some of the critics talk about The West Wing on TV tonight... I think they missed the point.

Some critics called it too preachy, said that it seemed like a civics class...

Uhm... excuse me? The story was of a politics class, and all the characters spoke to them? Did you critics miss that point?

I saw tonight's special episode of The West Wing (yes, they finally drew me in this summer!). The episode dealt with terrorism, and the multi-layered debate on it from all sides.

They used an accurate logic point about Islamic Fundamentalists, who are not to have other followers of Islam lumped in with them:

Islamic Fundamentalists are to Islam like the Klu Klux Klan to Christianity.

I can't think of a more accurate description of this splinter group.