Today Steve Irwin also known as the crocodile hunter was killed during a film shoot in the Great Barrier Reef by a sting ray. Witnesses say he swam to close to the animal when it struck him in the chest with its barbed tail. I guess its kind of a shock to me but he has been doing what he loves for years now. He has brought a lot of attention to many animals that had bad reputations. It’s a bit ironic that he was killed by a sting ray.
See the full story here.

It took some 18 people to organise and create this 220 foot wide firefox logo in the field.

Check out the full storie and gallery:
http://lug.oregonstate.edu/index.php/Projects/Firefox/Firefox_Circle

I threw all of my bookmarks into the resource page and got it all sorted out yesterday you can have a peak here. There is a lot cool and useful site’s in there. If you know of any sites that I may have missed that offer something that you think everyone should know about contact me.

http://www.studiolounge.net/resources/

I was reading a magazine yesterday that suggested that about 66.3% of Microsoft’s employees prefer using google over there msn search. Take a guess as to the percentage of people at google that use google? Oh come one. Higher than that. Ill give you a second….. ok you got it, 100%. Interestingly enough at yahoo about 68% of there guys used yahoo the others, ya google.

It appears as though my hosting company has decided to play with the server since my gallery no longer works without the help of me messing it up. I have removed the random image block for now so it’s not so harsh.

Hope they fix it soon.

Over the weekend I went to Calaway Park in Calgary. Now I’m not a big ride guy. In fact I down right didn’t want to go, but Kristi being the supportive wife she is offered up just the right amount of mockery to make me get on some of the dreaded rides. I told her I don’t like spinning of swinging. First ride up… the Tornado. Yea I handled the spinning and the rising and falling for as long as the ride lasted. Had a seat in the shade. Then went on to the boat ride (it’s a big swing) that almost put me over the edge I was feeling sick for the rest of the day. She went on the Storm and I held strong to the ground I watched her go around at a blazing speed then the ride takes a 90 degree turn for the sky now every one is going up-side down! That was a crazy ride. as for the rest of the day I made up for my weakness by winning the carry games and then the cherry on top was the rollercoaster with 2 barrel roles. That was actually kind of fun the first time. The second time was unnecessary!

When you think of gum and body odder you mostly think about your breath. Well now a Japanese food company Kanebo has moved the bar, they now make a gum which causes your body chemistry to alter and produce a rose sent. Simply chew the gum and the fragrant chemical geraniol which gives roses there smell will be emitted from your sweat glens.

Source: http://mdn.mainichi-msn.co.jp/national/news/20060701p2a00m0na032000c.html

Well it’s that great time of year were Canada celebrates its independence from Brighton, with the signing of the proclamation by the Governor General, Lord Monck. On June 20, 1868 Her Majesty called upon all her loving subjects throughout Canada to join in the celebration of the anniversary of the formation of the union of the British North America provinces in a federation under the name of Canada on July 1^st.

Official Lyrics of O Canada!

O Canada!
Our home and native land!
True patriot love in all thy sons command.

With glowing hearts we see thee rise,
The True North strong and free!

From far and wide,
O Canada, we stand on guard for thee.

God keep our land glorious and free!
O Canada, we stand on guard for thee.

O Canada, we stand on guard for thee.

Here is a song by Five Iron Frenzy that I think you will enjoy.

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I have uploaded some slide shots from last fall. I know I know, a bit late, but what can you do? And I have some photos from my holidays from Radium and Revelstoke BC. I should have my photos from Waterton and Three Valley up tomorrow or on Monday.

I picked up my film from the Calgary zoo and I must say I have a bunch of really nice shots. Ill have them up probably tomorrow after I sort through them. Ill also be dropping off 11 rolls of film from my holidays but that will be a bit later on.

So after yesterdays hockey game the Edmonton Oilers of course winning the game 2 to 0 against the San Jose Sharks. But that’s besides the point, the interesting fact was that on whyte ave. Edmonton hot spot for all that is cool had about 25000 people partying (that’s more than was at Rexall Place) and there was an estimated 300 police and crowd control personnel to avoid another celebration break down like the last one. The other interesting fact is it only cost Edmontonians a cool million!

So it turns out that my problem did not come from Google. It was some one “spoofing� there address.

Here is what they had to say:

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Well I had a lovely holiday I will be talking about it shortly, I guess while I was gone some jerk with some extra time on his hands decided that I needed 122 spam comments on my site telling me to go bye pills for all sorts of things including the Tama Flu. So I spend the better parts of 15 min cleaning them out. And contacted G-Mail were they all came from. I’m still waiting for a reply and I’m interested to see what is said.

Kristi and I will be going on a long deserved holiday to Waterton National Park Alberta. I have never been that far south in Alberta. We will be doing a bunch of hiking and picture taking. I’m hoping to get some beautiful shots. And since its spring I hope to catch some new life in the process. I’m very exited. We will also see how our new dog (Molly) deals with the trip. She is a 12 week old Yorkshire terrier who is a handful at times. Kristi as found entertainment in dressing her in little things for every occasion and I seam to have the smelly end of the deal.

I’m also working on refining my theme for WordPress by adding some more graphical elements, that should be finished shortly, check back soon

Well a smidge longer than I thought but I finished up my theme and is now the spectacle of your eye. As for now I’m going on holidays tomorrow so ill be gone for about a week. I will make sure to bring lots of film!