I'm less than a month away from my move, and I'm still trying to get my packing finished.

Today I finally stored away a part of my comic collection that hadn't been put in acid free boxes for years. I found issues of DC Comics classic Watchman series, as well as issues of Camelot 3000 (great series. Too bad it was over 2 years between the publication of issues 11 and 12). Also early issues of Miracle Man, a series currently in litigation on rights.

In over 20 years, I've really gathered some classic stuff.

I just changed the Website tracker for this Blog. While Site Tracker makes a larger graphic, at least I'll no longer see how the site was discovered by pervs looking for skin or for gruesome images (though these words are sure to get more of them).

Besides: Extreme Tracker still really belongs to the old site on Freeservers... it was time to get a new code.

So Robert Blake was finally arrested for the murder of wife Bonnie-Lee Begley... a year after the murder.

She sounded like a twisted woman - but that didn't in any way make it acceptable to kill her. The guilty party must pay.

I'm just amazed they waited so long to try for a conviction. Everything Blake has said in the last year pointed to a messed-up individual, one seemingly obsessed with guns.

Some are comparing this to the O J Simpson trial, for a celebrity being on trial. I'm hoping this one doesn't get away with the crime.

Independent News.

I'm not only a lover of Jazz. I'm also a writer, and lover of science fiction. Damon Knight had a major place in the field as an editor, a critic, a writer and member of the Futurians along with my idol Isaac Asimov and many others.

This eulegy speaks volumes about a great man.

It's official: David E. Kelly has announced that Ally McBeal will end with this season's final episode.

This really isn't too much of a surprise. I've been a fan of the show since the very beginning - but a few episodes into this season, I gave up on it. The magic just felt gone, the new characters and situations just not gripping.

A few things have happened in the world the past few days. I'll cover them in different posts; it'd be a tragic mistake to even compare them slightly in import.

Last night, US forces killed 4 Canadian troops, in a "friendly fire" incident: an American fighter pilot fired on Canadians performing a drill by accident.

This marked the second time in a week that such an accident happened. It's almost as if bored soldiers, not achieving high kill numbers, decided to take themselves out.

This was very, very sad.

CNN.com - Actor Robert Urich, dead at 55 - April 16, 2002. He was a television icon for my generation, and I'm a fan of detective fiction - so Dan Tanna and Spencer will always hold a place in my heart.

When he was first diagnosed with cancer, I'm sure that many of us rooted for him to beat it. He did for a time... but in the end, lost.

Goodbye Mr. Urich.

Time for some Web-geeking again: I'm testing out a 32-bit Windows utility to blog without logging into Blogger first.

The program is called Bloggar. I know; not an original derivation...

I can tell we've started to hype the Montreal Jazz Fest for this coming year: our local CTV station aired Jazz: A Century of Music today.

It was nice to see some of the legends of the business again, people not with us anymore, like Cab Calloway, Louis Armstrong, Nat King Cole, Ella Fitzgerald and more... we were lucky to hear such greats in the 20th Century.