Winter in the North!

My brother just sent me this photo that he took earlier this evening of the front lawn in Cochrane, Ontario.

Photo by: Cameron D.

Schnittke, Mozart, & Rachmaninoff

This evening a large group of students from GBS went on a school-organized trip to see the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra (extenal link to cincinnatisymphony.org). The concert was also preceded by a complementary dinner buffet. This was all a new experience for me, and we had a great evening.

Malcolm, Andrew, Jenny, Elizabeth, Alona, Alisa

From the Photo Archives: Polar Bears

Last winter at the Polar Bear Habitat in Cochrane, Ontario
(external link to polarbearhabitat.ca)

More of my photos here
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Lest We Forget

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Remembrance

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2006

Image from: http://www.vac-acc.gc.ca/remembers/

Live.com E-mail Addresses!

For many months Microsoft has been rolling out service-after-service under the Windows Live umbrella. Liveside.net explains here how to register for a yourname@live.com e-mail address, which will function like Hotmail (but since it is a new domain there are many more options for usernames!):

Windows Live email addresses start to become available (external link to liveside.net)

Balancing

Photo by: Kristen N.

Microsoft Virtual Earth 3D

Update: Great overview of features (external link to imagine-windowslive.com)

In the last day Microsoft released an update to include 3D terrain world-wide & 3D buildings for select cities in their Virtual Earth mapping service. Here is the quite impressive rendering of the Statue of Liberty:

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Image from: local.live.com

Internet Issues

For the last several days, the guy's dorm suffered a complete (or almost complete) loss of internet access. Due to two too-long* days of intense training sessions, we weren't able look into the problem until this evening. After over 1.5 hrs of troubleshooting, which involved testing network cable along with replacing connectors & 2 hubs, we finally succeeded in repairing the problem.

During the time the internet was down, I would tote my laptop to the window at the end of the hallway to access the wireless connection on main campus. Here is my roommate, Shane, on location to check his e-mail.

* did you notice the three spellings of the word 2 in a row? :-)

Popcorn + excessive time = fire trucks

Last evening around 11:15 the fire alarm in the guy's dorm began to sound. We dutifully made our way outside to stand in the crisp night air. After several minutes the sound of sirens could be heard; still in the distance but rapidly approaching the school. Soon, two ladder trucks pulled up but not before the culprit was discovered...a burnt bag of microwave popcorn!

East African Cuisine

More photos from our Friday evening outings.

Map on Windows Live Local marking restaurants we have visited.