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:: Friday, December 22, 2006 ::

Nature, Improved by Science
Originally uploaded by klareralt.

Remember when this used to happen?

When there wasn't RAIN on December 22nd?

When the snow used to be up past your knees when you went out to get the Christmas tree?

Looks like we've knocked too many down, cuz it's beginning to look a lot like a Global Warming Christmas.

I'm trying to look on the bright side: at least i can still ride my bike (as long as it's not pouring rain) so I can continue to reduce my impact on the earth in my small way.

And since I didn't knock down a tree (it's just my sad little artificial guy again this year) I wanted to look at this one and just pretend for a couple minutes that I'm lying in the snow, it's creaking in my ears, looking up at the beautiful tree and clear night sky.

Try it, maybe it'll help you get in the spirit too.

:: Cathy 2:50 PM [+] :: 0 comments

Christmas Cathy Style
Originally uploaded by webgoddesscathy.

Last night was our company Christmas party. What a blast! It was at the Academy of Spherical Arts (a fantastic pool hall/event facility in Liberty Village) and, aside from really bad swordfish (all dried out), the evening was a great success!

Santa even came and read out some holiday wishes from all of us to our CEO. We love her and she got all embarrassed.

I stayed late, finishing off all the open bottles of wine, with two others after everyone else had left. We talked about the company - what's going on now, the history and the future.

It was great - I got a lot of fantastic feedback from everyone that they had a good time, which is all I need to feel really good about the whole thing.

Too bad I suck at sleeping and still woke up early, despite thinking I'd just sleep in after going to bed so late. Oi, I wish I had normal sleeping abilities.

So now I await Raye's arrival from Halifax so we can go out for a nice gossipy dinner and then head to my place for much needed sleep. My brother will arrive to sleep at my place tonight as well and then he'll drive us to grandma's house for our first stop on the family Christmas circuit. Fun!

PS: today I am wearing my pretty new brown boots (which I bought on SALE!).

:: Cathy 6:55 AM [+] :: 0 comments

:: Monday, December 18, 2006 ::

It's been an interesting day on the web. Check out the things that I've checked out today:

Last.fm - very cool social music site. Listen to music and it learns what you like and creates a profile that you can share with people who have similar music tastes and makes recommendations on what else you’d like. You can connect what you’ve played to your blog so that it has a recommended songlist updated automatically. Nice. But I couldn't get it to work for some reason. Maybe because I'm on a Mac.
MyBlogLog - find out who's reading your blog (not just what part of the country they're from, but WHO these people really are) by having them join a social community where they can meet each other. I mean, they obviously have something in common if they're all reading your blog, right? It's better than setting up an entirely separate blog through MySpace or MSN Live Spaces or whatever, just to have the community aspect of it. Although, I've done that too, but that's mostly because I'm a geek and want to try everything out. ;)
Sacha Chua's website - tech evangelist - I met her at a CATA WIT event that I organized last week. Very interesting girl - I didn't know that a tech evangelist is just someone who's really excited about tech and tries to match people with the right technology for their lives.
Upcoming.org - I already knew about this social events calendar, but Sacha reminded me about it. And so I visited again and was impressed by the interesting events that are happening in Toronto in the next while. I love events. As long as they're not expensive.
ZeroFootPrint - they're going to be at GreenCamp in February. I love their site with enviro events, marketplace, blog and news, plus they have a TONNE of Canadian advisors.

:: Cathy 3:26 PM [+] :: 0 comments