Entries from October 2008

Deadly Allies : Canada’s Secret War, 1937-1947 by John Bryden

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Oct 29, 2008 at 4:14 am EST · 2 Comments

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This is about a book I just read called Deadly Allies : Canada’s Secret War, 1937-1947 by John Bryden, and it was written in 1989.
This book is about Canada’s secret war from 1937 to 1947, but it also kind of extrapolates (I think that’s the [...]


The First Global Revolution by Alexander King and Bertrand Schneider

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Oct 25, 2008 at 3:27 am EST · 1 Comment

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I just read The First Global Revolution by Alexander King and Bertrand Schneider.
On the back of the book it talks about The Club of Rome:
Alexander King, one of Britain’s most respected scientists, is a founding member of the Club of Rome, [...]


My Decision

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Oct 21, 2008 at 9:25 pm EST · 5 Comments

OK. I slept on it for about 14 hours and thought about it for a bunch more hours. Here is my decision.
I’m going to log the long stuff (i.e. book notes) here and log the short stuff (i.e. lottery winnings, words I learn, places I learn, etc.) on social Internet web sites like Facebook and [...]


Thinking of Some Changes

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Oct 20, 2008 at 9:16 pm EST · 2 Comments

Doing HD videos on a 4 year old computer sucks, so I am thinking of doing some changes. I like having video logs so in the future when I am too lazy to read I can just watch the videos instead of reading.
I dont like reading a bunch of stuff at once, but I can [...]


Iceland And “Stringent”

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Oct 20, 2008 at 2:25 pm EST · No Comments

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I learned about the country called Iceland, and I also learned about the word “Stringent”.
Iceland

An island country in the North Atlantic near the Arctic Circle. Norse settlers arrived c. 850-875, and Christianity was introduced c. 1000. Iceland passed to Norway in 1262 and, with Norway, [...]