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Douglas Adams' classic geek book, I'm buying it for a geek girl. I found that Chapters (Canada) sells the entire trilogy in 4 parts for $6 or so. Yeah, I'm a cheap geek. I've already received the shipment, it really is the whole damn set of books for $6.

My school's campus bookstore is actually pretty reasonable for textbooks. It's online listings show their price as well as the price at Amazon.ca and Chapters.ca, and a link to the library's database entry for it. Generally books are cheaper at our bookstore than online (without taking shipping into account).

Furthermore, many of our courses have custom "course notes" that basically cover in detail everything we're doing, and they tend to only cost $5-15 (CAD).

Of course, it helps that our bookstore is owned by our Engineering Society -- it's non-profit.

"See I have a couple of different reasons why this doesn't hit me as a fair deal from apple. [...] Why would I pay $1 a track, $15 a cd when I can go to a used Record/CD store, pick-up used copies of the artists I want to hear for about $6-$9 a pop."

Because you can actually find what you want immediately rather searching through 4 used record stores all over town before finding that used debut CD of The Primitives. You can also pick & choose the songs you want on your CD, and not pay for the crap you don't like. Plus if you can actually find decent used (working) CDs for $6 a pop, why don't you tell us all where this is so that we can pick some up before that store goes out of business?

"Those with this music service from apple will have to go out, get to the site, log in, find the track, pay for track, wait for confirmation of the payment being recieved, then once that confirm is recieved - download it, and then play it"

Ooh, that's tough. Almost like going out, get to the site, enter a book title in Search, find the book from the results, add to shopping cart, enter address, pay for the book, wait for the 1 second confirmation of payment being received, then wait for the thing to come in the mail. You're right, who the heck would have such a lame-ass business model? This music download service will certaily fail because it's way too cumbersome.

"Besides, I for one am still really leary of any site that wants me to pay for digital downloads, what's really there to stop the RIAA or some of their Brain Washed supportive Artists from coming after members on that service?"

How about the receipt they'll have that says they paid for their music? Or the contract between the record company and Apple saying they're authorised to sell that music for commission? If that's not enough, what's to stop the RIAA from coming after you when you buy new or used CDs instead?

Mr. Editor, by "vs" in your subject line, can we assume you intended either "vs." or "versus"? Yes, the period is significant in abbreviations.

You will find excellent books on editing, spelling, grammar, and punctuation both here and here. Good luck to you.

There are almost no books available (BN doesn't even have a Mac section anymore, while their Linux and open source section is quite large).

Don't blame publishers for your bookstore of choice having a shoddy collection.

First, go to A HREF="http://www.amazon.com/">amazon.com and type "OS X" into the search box, choose 'books', and hit enter. I don't care if you hate Amazon, but look at their selection - "All 45 results for OS X" are worth browsing through.

Then go to www.chapters.ca and search for "OSX" (three hits) and "OS X" (140 hits, but not all are relevant - the Indigo search sucks ass; soem palm programming books grace the list, etc).

Then, check BN's website for "OS X". 44 different books.

Then join #macdev on Openprojects and ask there what books are good and which are bad for what you want to learn about.

There are lots of books out there. If your local BN doesn't carry them, pick one out from online, write down the ISBN, and call the store, get them to order it, or find a decent bookstore (or a larger BN).

Software installation is a mess. Some applications come with installers, some come as archives that you need to drag somewhere, some come as loopback mountable disk images. Linux is much better in this area, and even Windows XP seems a little better.

Yes, because in Linux, some applications come as source in tarballs, some come as source RPMs, some come as binary tarballs, some come as binary RPMs, some come as binary debian packages, some come as tarballs of installers, some come as .sh files that you have to chmod +x to run....

Windows is simple, in that you just run the installer, but in OS X, software (good software, not this ported IE crap) doesn't stick garbage in all your system directories. You can drag a folder to your desktop, and the application will Just Work. You can throw it away, and it's gone for good (except for preferences).

Anyway, that's my input. Most of the rest of what you've said I agree with, especially about the KISS philosophy. Perhaps we'll see improvement in OSS because of this. We can always hope.

--Dan

You've seen the show now get The Book

J:)

Actually, Chapters.ca (if you're in Canada) and Amazon.com (if you're elsewhere) both list Planiverse as "usually shipping in 24 hours".

I did see a copy of it on the shelf at the local Chapters, so it seems to still be available.

• Since the Big Bang is the beginning of time, asking "What came before the Big Bang?" is as meaningless as asking "What is North of the North Pole?" "Before" has no meaning at the beginning of time, just as "North" has no meaning at the North Pole. Similarly, asking "What caused the Big Bang" is equally nonsensical, since for the Big Bang to be the effect of a cause, the cause would have to happen before hand.
• Even if the Big Bang were not the beginning of time, any and all information from before the Planck time is forever lost, so there's no real point in discussing it anyways, except for idle conjecture and religious rantings.

Ryan T. Sammartino

I would like to ask the judge this:

One of the following is a binary representation of No Logo by Naomi Klein; the other is DeCSS:

01010000100001010101010101000010000101010101010100 00100001010101010101000010000101010101010100001000 01010101010101000010000101010100101000010000101010 10101010000100001010101010101000010000101010101010 10010101000010000101010101010100001000010101010101 01000010000101010101010100001000010101010101010000 10000101010101010100001000010101010111010100101010 0101010010101001010100101010

and

10101001010100101010011010100101010101001010100010 01010101010010101000100101010101001010100010010101 01010010101000100101010101001010100010010101010100 10101000100101010101001010100010010101010100101010 00100101010101001010100010010101010100101010001001 01010101001010100010010101010100101010001001010101 01001010100010010101010100101010001001010101010010 1010001001010101010010101001

Please tell me which one is a work of art, an act of expression or an instance of speech. Please identify which should be protected as Free Speech.


Just for shits and giggles, show him this:

01010010101001010100110101001010101010010101000100 10101010100101010001001010101010010101000100101010 10100101010001001010101010010101000100101010101001 01010001001010101010010101000100101010101001010100 01001010101010010101000100101010101001010100010010 10101010010101000100101010101001010100010010101010 10010101000100101010101001010100010010101010100101 010001001010101010010101001

What we have above is his doctoral thesis, his last ruling or a love letter to his wife. It may not be obvious to him, but there are some people (not including myself) who would be able to identify each of these instances.

It is beyond comprehension why this case is even being considered - it is obvious that the sole motivation to the DMCA is to protect profit in exchange for liberty and freedom. When discussions of this type are so clearly oppressive one has to consider what the *REAL COST* is. There are *VERY* few things that should be considered as reason to limit liberty - and MPAA profit isnt even approaching this group.

An honest question. I cannot give an adequate treatment of the subject here, other than to direct you to:

"Getting Off The Ground", Chapter 4, Climbing Mount Improbable , Richard Dawkins, 1996, W. W. Norton.

That chapter lucidly describes the evolution of flight in several species.

Well worth the read... pick it up.

Ryan T. Sammartino

Look up "Amusing ourselves to Death" a book by Neil Postman

Ever thought we may end up like Wells' Eloi?

Or as an enslaved, mindless, soma phreak like in Huxley's Brave New World? (the McCarthy inspired Anti-Communist undertones will DEFINATLEY not be part of that future)

More like a quote in a book I read recently (Fawcett's Cambodia: A Book for People Who Find Television Too Slow... to quote (loosely) He went on for a few pages about how "all through time 'would-be' oppressors/tyrants/dictators/kings/priests/etc have tried to enslave the 'average' person. And every time he learns that a slave's output (production) is lower - that the level of oppression is inversely proportional to his output. 'Slaves' will always find a way to do little work - while just doing enough to keep themselves from being killed (you cant kill all your slaves for poor performance)" He then later went on to say "God help us if someone finds a way to prove history untrue - meaning a way to make enslaved people want to work harder". When he said that I literally shuddered - I thought " Oh Crap - I think they have.".

When I look around at what all our discoveries, technology and culture has 'culminated' to - and what our 'direction' and goals (which we really have none) it was like being kicked in the chest - I spent 3 days relating this too friends and family (who mostly think Im a lunatic ("Your too serious, relax, take it easy" is commonly their reply))

Think about the way we relate to one another (through popular media), the consumerism, the blindly shallow culture (there is virtually nothing outside of 'pop' culture), and the way that we encourage and reward this behavior. That anything outside of entertaining ourselves and indulging ourselves has been forgotten. Im not suggesting we all have to live like martyrs and such, but it looks like we've become too complacent to adjust our culture to respond to anything of any real value...

Am I really supposed to give a fucking shit about Tommy Hilfiger, Monica Lewinsky, Jim Carrey's love life, or what Leonardo Decaprio eats for breakfast?

Not only that, but I've found that Netscape 6 (aka Mozilla) doesn't properly render some of the pages that I regularly view. Under 4.75 they were fine, but things like http://www.chapters.ca, Canada's answer to Amazon.com. Especially evident on the "DVD" tab, the text is displayed right over images instead of beside it like they should be.

Thought i'd see how much Chapters was selling it for (in impoverished CAD). Mysteriously, i find under the description of that book a review reportedly by one "Jeff Michaels from Markham, ON, Canada" which contains the verbatim text from the second paragraph and a good chunk of the text from the first paragraph under What's Good. Here's the www.chapters.ca page. Scroll down a bit to see reader reviews.

As with a number of British-published books (most notably Pratchett's Discworld series), they're more often than not also available in Canada. One place that sells online is Chapters. They do have Look To Windward, although they say it'll take 3 to 5 weeks to get it to you.

As with a number of British-published books (most notably Pratchett's Discworld series), they're more often than not also available in Canada. One place that sells online is Chapters. They do have Look To Windward, although they say it'll take 3 to 5 weeks to get it to you.

I've gotten fed up buying my DVD's from Express.com in the US, who, while being cheap, tend to take a good 2 weeks to get to Edmonton because of customs holdups (I swear I'm on the customs hit list. They inspect EVERY package sent to me...) so I've found all kinds of worthwhile online stores based out of Canada. Thats a good thing for two reasons ... one, you avoid duty and Canada Post's $5 "handling fee", and two, Canada Post XPress Post is _really_ cheap and fast within Canada. 2-3 days for a couple of bucks.

So, for DVD's, I'll reccomend www.cnl.com based out of Vancouver. I've only been dealing with them for about 2 weeks now but I've been very happy, and they come highly reccomended to me. Consider, around midnight on a Wednesday I ordered 5 DVD's. Late Thursday I got a shipping confirmation, and I had the DVD's in my hands on Friday afternoon. All for $8 cdn shipping. Prices are quite reasonable, only a little bit more than buying from Express once you factor in shipping and customs fees, plus you get 'em in 2 days (or less), not 2 weeks.

For CD's, I usually buy from Chapters Online, but the trick with Chapters is to only buy items that are listed as "shipping in 24 hours". If it says anything else, especially the dreaded "1-2 weeks", expect to be waiting 1-2 months, if you get it at all. Other options are HMV who's prices seem okay. I preordered Moby's new CD from them because I came across a $5 coupon .. hasn't shipped yet so I can't comment on service. Finally, A&B Sound, who despite the spartan website, are reported to have nice prices.

For books, again, Chapters Online is your best bet. Really good prices, especially with a Chapters One Card (you pay a $15 yearly fee and get 10% off everything, along with $5 in coupons for every $100 you spend). But again, only order if its in stock (shipping in 24 hours), otherwise its a real crap shoot as to when you'll get it.

For computer hardware, the best is easily Onvia. Great prices, and even better free shipping. Nothing better than buying a 21" monitor at a decent price and not having to pay for shipping. Service is great, shipping is fast (they courier it, so 2-3 days or so), and prices are competitive. Fairly often they have $25 and $50 off coupons, too. I've also done a fair bit of shopping from NCIX, based out of Vancouver. Their prices range from really good, to comparable to my local prices, to a bit high, but they're worth checking out. I got a killer deal on my IBM Deskstar 7200rpm 30 gig from them a while back, and got my Pioneer 10x DVD player from them last year when virtually no stores anywhere in North America were selling them. I'll definately continue dealing with both.

Someone forwarded www.goldfishlegs.com to me the other day, and they've got reviews of Canadian E-Tailers, along with coupons and other goodies. I didn't agree with some of their reviews, but it seems like a useful site to keep bookmarked.

In general, my dealings with various Canadian online stores have been positive. Through harsh experience I've learned how to deal with Chapters (thankfully they're very responsive to e-mails), and I've only been ripped off once (www.stupidcomputers.com, they closed up shop and dissappeared, taking a lot of people's money with them. VISA refunded my money, thankfully). In general I'm willing to pay the little bit extra to buy from Canadian stores (support the economy _and_ get it in less than 2 weeks), except for extreme price differences and/or unavailability in Canada.

Hope this helps =)

I've gotten fed up buying my DVD's from Express.com in the US, who, while being cheap, tend to take a good 2 weeks to get to Edmonton because of customs holdups (I swear I'm on the customs hit list. They inspect EVERY package sent to me...) so I've found all kinds of worthwhile online stores based out of Canada. Thats a good thing for two reasons ... one, you avoid duty and Canada Post's $5 "handling fee", and two, Canada Post XPress Post is _really_ cheap and fast within Canada. 2-3 days for a couple of bucks.

So, for DVD's, I'll reccomend www.cnl.com based out of Vancouver. I've only been dealing with them for about 2 weeks now but I've been very happy, and they come highly reccomended to me. Consider, around midnight on a Wednesday I ordered 5 DVD's. Late Thursday I got a shipping confirmation, and I had the DVD's in my hands on Friday afternoon. All for $8 cdn shipping. Prices are quite reasonable, only a little bit more than buying from Express once you factor in shipping and customs fees, plus you get 'em in 2 days (or less), not 2 weeks.

For CD's, I usually buy from Chapters Online, but the trick with Chapters is to only buy items that are listed as "shipping in 24 hours". If it says anything else, especially the dreaded "1-2 weeks", expect to be waiting 1-2 months, if you get it at all. Other options are HMV who's prices seem okay. I preordered Moby's new CD from them because I came across a $5 coupon .. hasn't shipped yet so I can't comment on service. Finally, A&B Sound, who despite the spartan website, are reported to have nice prices.

For books, again, Chapters Online is your best bet. Really good prices, especially with a Chapters One Card (you pay a $15 yearly fee and get 10% off everything, along with $5 in coupons for every $100 you spend). But again, only order if its in stock (shipping in 24 hours), otherwise its a real crap shoot as to when you'll get it.

For computer hardware, the best is easily Onvia. Great prices, and even better free shipping. Nothing better than buying a 21" monitor at a decent price and not having to pay for shipping. Service is great, shipping is fast (they courier it, so 2-3 days or so), and prices are competitive. Fairly often they have $25 and $50 off coupons, too. I've also done a fair bit of shopping from NCIX, based out of Vancouver. Their prices range from really good, to comparable to my local prices, to a bit high, but they're worth checking out. I got a killer deal on my IBM Deskstar 7200rpm 30 gig from them a while back, and got my Pioneer 10x DVD player from them last year when virtually no stores anywhere in North America were selling them. I'll definately continue dealing with both.

Someone forwarded www.goldfishlegs.com to me the other day, and they've got reviews of Canadian E-Tailers, along with coupons and other goodies. I didn't agree with some of their reviews, but it seems like a useful site to keep bookmarked.

In general, my dealings with various Canadian online stores have been positive. Through harsh experience I've learned how to deal with Chapters (thankfully they're very responsive to e-mails), and I've only been ripped off once (www.stupidcomputers.com, they closed up shop and dissappeared, taking a lot of people's money with them. VISA refunded my money, thankfully). In general I'm willing to pay the little bit extra to buy from Canadian stores (support the economy _and_ get it in less than 2 weeks), except for extreme price differences and/or unavailability in Canada.

Hope this helps =)

Personally, I would like to see airbrush van art make its comeback by appearing on Wrox press books. Keep on truckin'!

Is available at chapters

There are provincial prefixes for many of the Canadian TLD like this one, but there are also lots of ones like this one. Heck, even this one doesn't bother with the provincial prefix.

I was registering a domain a few years back, and the price was the same for a .com or a .ca, so I don't know why the US can't get it together...

The Risks forum should be read by:

• Anyone who uses or depends on computers in their daily lives
• Anyone who programs computers
• Anyone who makes policy decisions involving computers or software
• Anyone who ever depends on the correct functioning of computers for their lives or safety (flown on a modern airplane lately?)
• Anyone who operates computers that affect safety (piloted one?)

You might think such spy stuff as this article is about is out of your realm, but consider this example which likely could have affected most of us:

The scary MSWord residue feature

I recently received a legal document as part of a personal negotiation that I am doing. The document was e-mailed to me in MSWord format. As I was showing it to my lawyer (who happens to be my wife), we decided to put our thoughts inline using the track changes feature of word. After selecting Tools, and Track Changes, we clicked on "Highlight changes in document" and voila, suddenly a whole bunch of red appeared on the screen. We looked at it closely and realized that everything in red represented changes in the document that my counterpart's lawyer had written. We got a good look at the previous version of the contract, as well as a bunch of comments and justifications that the lawyer wrote to his client. It was an eye opening experience.

It appears that instead of selecting "Accept all changes" before sending it to me, the other party to the contract simply turned off the highlighting to the track changes feature.

This is obviously a case of an unsophisticated person misusing a feature. However, it is very dangerous. Lawyers send word documents around all the time, and many of them do not really understand all the features that they use, nor should they have to. I imagine that I was not the first person to see some behind the scenes conversation in an important word document, that I was never intended to see.

• http://www.fatbrain.com
• http://www.barnesandnoble.com
• http://www.amazon.com
• http://www.chapters.ca - in Canada

If you're a computer user, you need to read The Forum on Risks to the Public in Computer and Related Systems, available on the web at http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/ on on the Usenet news as comp.risks

The Risks forum is part of the ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy.

You should make a special effort to read Risks if you:

• Program computers
• Make policy decisions involving computers (managers, government etc.)
• Depend on computers for your life or safety (do you fly on airplanes?)
• Operate computers in situations where they affect life or safety

USS Yorktown dead in water after divide by zero

The Navy got rid of its more robust warship operating systems and replaced them with Windows NT. As a result of this, when a sailor typed a "0" in a data entry field, the whole shipboard network went down and the proud Yorktown had to be towed back into port.

Security concerns, viruses and the like are discussed extensively in Risks.

Do you use Microsoft Word on Mac or Windows? Do you use it to type confidential documents? Consider this post from a fellow who received a contract from an attorney in Word format:

The scary MSWord residue feature

I recently received a legal document as part of a personal negotiation that I am doing. The document was e-mailed to me in MSWord format. As I was showing it to my lawyer (who happens to be my wife), we decided to put our thoughts inline using the track changes feature of word. After selecting Tools, and Track Changes, we clicked on "Highlight changes in document" and voila, suddenly a whole bunch of red appeared on the screen. We looked at it closely and realized that everything in red represented changes in the document that my counterpart's lawyer had written.

We got a good look at the previous version of the contract, as well as a bunch of comments and justifications that the lawyer wrote to his client. It was an eye opening experience. It appears that instead of selecting "Accept all changes" before sending it to me, the other party to the contract simply turned off the highlighting to the track changes feature.

This is obviously a case of an unsophisticated person misusing a feature. However, it is very dangerous. Lawyers send word documents around all the time, and many of them do not really understand all the features that they use, nor should they have to. I imagine that I was not the first person to see some behind the scenes conversation in an important word document, that I was never intended to see.

New HDTV signal shuts down Baylor heart monitors

On 26 Feb 1998, WFAA TV (Channel 8) in Dallas turned on their new digital HDTV signal. As a result, 12 heart monitors stopped working in a Baylor University Medical Center heart surgery recovery unit; they happened to be on the same frequency. The monitors were made in the mid-1980s, and were slated for replacement. [But the patients weren't?] In the interim, WFAA has stopped transmitting -- because there are no commercial receivers yet anyway. [Source: * Dallas Morning News*, 5 Mar 1998. PGN Abstracting]

It has ISBN 020155805X and you can purchase it online from:

• http://www.fatbrain.com
• http://www.barnesandnoble.com
• http://www.amazon.com
• http://www.chapters.ca - in Canada

Mike

Tilting at Windmills for a Better Tomorrow

It has ISBN 020155805X and you can purchase it online from:

• http://www.fatbrain.com
• http://www.barnesandnoble.com
• http://www.amazon.com
• http://www.chapters.ca (Canadian bookseller)

Mike

Tilting at Windmills for a Better Tomorrow

For a complete and thorough account of what corporatism is and how it affects liberal democracies please see The Unconscious Civilization by John Ralston Saul.

It's also available from Chapters.ca at http://www.chapters.ca/digital/books /default.asp...

You can also get it for free at Chapters.ca

Hit chapters.ca for good prices (and no amazon!)

Here's a link.

If you're in Canada, or feel like spending $CDN just for fun, here's a couple of his books at chapters.ca:

Mythi cal Man Month

Compu ter Architecture (Vol 1)

Just FYI, I already have em both... :)

If you're in Canada, or feel like spending $CDN just for fun, here's a couple of his books at chapters.ca:

Mythi cal Man Month

Compu ter Architecture (Vol 1)

Just FYI, I already have em both... :)

Here are some examples:

1. X10.com: I had a great experience with them this x-mas. Many members of my family ordered from them, they shipped in about 3 weeks. Very trustworthy.
2. chapters online: I ordered a Creative Labs Nomad from them and had it shipped "express" but several weeks later I checked the status of my order and discovered it had been canceled... but I received no notification of why it was canceled. So far I've sent them three emails and they have not responded at all. I am a Chapter's Online shareholder and I'm not impressed.
3. PERL Magnets: I ordered some perl magnets (can't remember the URL right now). They shipped fast. No problems.
4. Linux Mall: I ordered a "tux" (stuffed penguin) from Linux mall. Shipped fast, no problems.
5. Future Shop: This was by far the worst experience. My mother ordered a Diamond Rio MP3 player on-line. She was told via email on two different occaisions when the product would ship. It never shipped. She phoned a 1-800 number and the staff were rude and explained there was no way they could possibly ship the product until the new year and asked why she didn't order earlier (she ordered in the first week of November!).
6. Peter Zale: I ordered a copy of Techies Unite: Helen Sweetheart of the Internet (a comic strip). It shipped fast, no problems.
7. Sound Forge: I ordered a copy of Acid Pro 2.0 for my brother. It shipped kind of slow considering I paid US$30 for shipping and while I called UPS to have them hold the package so I could pick it up at night it took them 3 business days to change process the "hold" order. UPS didn't please me. Other than that it was a good experience.
8. Sears: I ordered several things for my mother from sears on-line order form. This was a great experience. Their on-line order form is kind of lame, but the shipping was lightning fast, dirt cheap, and their return policies are wonderful. Sears has been doing mail-order sales for decades and know how to do this stuff... these stores that say this is a new business model are lying... mail order is an old business model; Internet stores are just mail order stores with dynamic catalogs.

If there is a lesson to be learned, I guess it would be: don't buy from big on-line stores. Buy from experienced mail order houses and "the little" guy. They'll deliver and they actually care that your satisfied.

In Canada there is:

• www.chapters.ca
• www.indigo.ca

Even though they are in Canada I would still recommend Indigo or Chapters. I found some books that were the same price in CAD as in USD. That makes for a 33% discount over the average American price, given the exchange rate. I've used Indigo and was quite pleased.

Pick it up in $CDN here.

Click Me!

BTW - This book cost enough that Chapters'll ship it free. Even better!

Will prolly want to pick up the book from Chapters.ca instead of fatbrain, here's the link:


Click me!

"Black Holes and Time Warps: Einstein's Outrageous Legacy" by Kip S. Thorne

I personally found it very interesting and insightful. It covers everything I wanted to know when I picked up the book... Relativity, (especially a several chapters on WHY relativity is) as well as cool things like black holes and wormholes. Great reading. Check it out at: Chapters.ca --- there.

Hey, just a quick note for Canucks trying to track down a copy, Chapters.ca has it for $15 right now, and that's in CANADIAN dollars. :) Not sure if they still have their free delivery deal, but either way, it probably beats the fatbrain/amazon/whatever yankee price.

Pick it up here.

I gotta agree, the part where it tells you that leaving your pilot in the hotsync cradle drains the batteries has already saved me enough dough to justify the purchase.

BTW - Any Canucks interested in buying the book, I'd suggest Chapters.ca. They've got the book on 20% discount right now, and delivery's free in Canada till the end of October. Click here to go to the product page. (Heh, note that if you go to it through that link, you also give me a 5% commission, awfully sweet of you. :)

This reminds me of an excerpt from Raymond Kurzweil's Age of Intelligent Machines (2nd book in a row for me that's out of stock at Amazon but Chapters has got it) where examples from poetry generated by a computer are compared to human poetry. Supposedly the s/w was good enough to fool a significant group of people.

Tell me about it.

I'm living the life at www.chapters.ca... and some days it ain't pretty.

You have to take control of your life though... and make time for the things that are important to you... I'm not quite there myself... yet... but I'm making progress, while working at a job that is both fun and rewarding.

Now I just have to hire a few more people that are willing to live that life... and I can take some time off... ;)
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