World AIDS Day

This site will educate you more on HIV/AIDS.

The AIDS Memorial Quilt

This project began many years ago now, and it hasn't wrapped up yet.

The photo on the main page just shows part of the quilt, and it seems enormous already - but it's still only part of it all...

According to the site, AIDS has claimed 21.8 MILLION lives to date, 3 million of them last year alone. Very sobering statistics.

World Aids Day really begins in a few hours, but I'll be at work tomorrow, and most of it will be over and done with by the time I get home.

Even though today was already one of sadness and reflection on George Harrison, I wanted to make sure that the day I commemorated last year as part of The Day Without Weblogs was commemorated again:

Above this you'll find links to several sites about AIDS, to help you learn more.

Independent Enjoyment

Sir Paul McCartney was wrongly blasted for his seeming blasé attitude when John Lennon died. Really, it was shock when the news was just tossed at him.

No one could accuse him of that now. More tributes to George Harrison.

Obituary: George Harrison, 1943-2001

My Sweet Lord... the writing was very likely on the wall with the report earlier this year, even though it was proclaimed false.

George is the second Beatle lost to the world, after John Lennon in the 1980s...

When we was Fab... George had a major influence on modern music, even if he sometimes didn't seem to. Introducing the sitar to us, tunes after tunes after tunes...

Only 58. Taken from us too young, as John was. We'll miss you George. I have to go on with my life now, While my Guitar Gently Weeps.

Cops Bust Intl Kid-Porn Ring. What can I say about this? GOOD! Child pornographers are sick to me.

My mom had her first cataract surgery today. It went well, it was also a very short time. Still, she must have felt awful under local anesthetic for it.

I'm in Burlington, VT right now, having celebrated American Thanksgiving with an incredible meal made by my aunt.

I also got to follow a growing movie trend, even though I usually try to avoid trends: I saw the Harry Potter film in theatres.

I actually have yet to read any of the books but I had to say: the film was bloody brilliant. It actually made me want to read the books now.

Previews also reminded me just how much I anticipate the premiere of the first Lord of the Rings movie. This for a trilogy I haven't read in 20 years too!

Taliban to Surrender Kunduz. This article title is deceptive; the article itself makes it sound like they're nowhere near a surrender... but I'm hoping that at least *this part* of the whole ordeal is over.

Potter mania hots up.

I'm still blown away by the frenzy for this... still, Harry Potter got people reading again.

Albert Hague, 81; Fame Teacher Wrote Scores for Broadway, TV. I didn't know he wrote the score for How the Grinch Stole Christmas, but I remember his days as Professor Shorofsky on Fame.

Both my shoulders hurt right now. I got my flu and pneumonia shots today... while the pneumonia shot was less painful at the time, it hurts more now.

Well, obviously Freeserver kept FTP on accounts created before they decided to make it a pay service... since the last post got out and all.

Right now, ABC news is pasting the airwaves with news of another plane crash outside of New York City. They've been doing so since early morning.

It might be a terrorist act; it's most definitely a tragedy, as over 200 lives were lost.

By bringing all the lives of TV viewers to a halt again, though, ABC is doing exactly what the terrorists want.

For some reason, Freeservers removed FTP access from their free sites.

As a result, I don't even know if this post will work.

My votes today proved fruitful: Pierre Bourque lost his bid for a third term as mayor of Montreal, by a wide margin. Gerald Tremblay will be the first mayor of the 21st century now.

Bourque proved just how dense he could be in his concession speech; on the city merger, he said he might have explained it better, to make it more palatable. Hey, moron: it's an unpopular idea in Montreal, no matter HOW you explained it. As I've said from the beginning: no matter how we phrased it, we still said as one: we don't want it!

Now, the message should be clear - not that he'll understand it.

Before 10 AM today, I cast my votes for borough councilor and mayor in Montreal's elections.

This is considered the most significant election in years, considering it's for the people in office once the entire city is merged (a forced merger that few people outside of the government want). As a result, it's also the election the highest percentage of citizens have voted in ever.

Even though the current mayor Pierre Bourque is one of the most despised in years, polls give him 35% of the vote. Why he'd have moore than 0.001% of the vote is beyond me. On the 11 o'clock news tonight, I'm hoping to have the results declared, so I can learn them before I wake up tomorrow.

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