I saw the horror movie The Grudge (official site) last night. That is one relentlessly creepy movie! The sound effects are especially effective. It takes a lot of a movie to scare me, but The Grudge does it. And it’s not all cheap spring-loaded-cat gags, either (though it does have quite a few of those.)…

After many years with my trusty Nikon Coolpix 990, the time has finally come to upgrade. Digital SLRs are finally within reach of the “prosumer”. A few of my friends have the Canon EOS 10D, and a decent selection of lenses. It seemed fitting that I should also go the Canon route. But with the…

The marble statue I bought in Vietnam has finally come home. It’s been in a warehouse in Toronto for almost a month, while I tried to figure out how I was going to get it into the house. This shipment weighed in at 600kg, almost all of it is the statue and the circular base…

I was in Ottawa yesterday for a business meeting. Had some time free at the end of the day, so we stopped at the Winners store across the road. I found one of those liquor dispenser things that has the bottles upside down. You use the glass to push up the dispenser at the bottom,…

I recently returned from three weeks in Vietnam with my friend Ha. I’ve added a photo-gallery to my site.