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Wow. This is really cool. I submitted three photos to WhyGo.com and today they published my third photo of North Vancouver I took last fall. On my computer, I call this photo “heaven”.

So all told, they’ve published Casa Mila Rooftop in Barcelona, Spring Cleaning in Budapest, and now Heaven in North Vancouver.

Cool. I need to find more photos to submit!

Horsetooth

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I really enjoyed being in Vancouver last fall. We had cable and was able to get all the shows in the US we were used to. We didn’t watch much Canadian TV shows.

Apparently neither do the Canadians.

One of my new favorite shows is Lost on ABC. I admit I really didn’t watch it last year but saw some of the last eppy last season. I watched the season 1 recap last week and have really gotten into the show.

Really interesting and entertaining.

Today I found the LOST Wiki. Hopefully this will help me get a little more caught up…either that or figure out how to watch all of Season 1 that I missed.

I’m working on upgrading word press and though it would be easy. Instead I get an error you can see on the blog. Hopefully will get it fixed soon. Sorry for the mess.

UPDATE: It’s fixed. Nothing to see here. Move along.

Tony Morgan has a list of 10 Easy Ways to Know You’re Not a Leader:

10 Easy Ways to Know You’re Not a Leader

1. You’re waiting on a bigger staff and more money to accomplish your vision.
2. You think you need to be in charge to have influence.
3. You’re content.
4. You tend to foster division instead of generating a helpful dialogue.
5. You think you need to say something to be heard.
6. You find it easier to blame others for your circumstances than to take responsibility for solutions.
7. It’s been some time since you said, “I messed up.”
8. You’re driven by the task instead of the relationships and the vision.
9. Your dreams are so small, people think they can be achieved.
10. No one is following you.

You may remember I posted about the troubles of public speaking. Previously all we got was the audio.

Now here’s the video of Blake’s Big Mistake (wmv video).

More on Blake here.

My laptop has been running really slow the last month or so. I took off all unnecessary programs, ran all the spyware and cleaners, etc. Nothing.

Yesterday we reinstalled the OS.

Now I get to rebuild everything. We backed up all my “stuff”, but it doesn’t back up all the customizations I had set in Outlook, the desktop, etc.

It’s both fun and frustrating.

But my laptop is running so fast now. It’s like new!

Flickr Photo origninally uploaded by sillydog.

My wife and I were just discussing this. You know how each President of the US has a favorite food? For example:

• Jimmy Carter liked peanuts
• Ronald Regan liked jelly beans
• George Bush liked, uh, I don’t remember. I know it wasn’t broccoli though.
• Bill Clinton liked M&Ms
• George W Bush likes, uh, dang. What’s with the Bush guys? UPDATE: Seems it’s Mexican food.

So anyway, if I were President mine would be candy corn (Farley’s to be exact). Patricia’s would be chocolate chip cookies.

What would yours be (or either Bush)?

This is really cool! I’ve been published again. This time WhyGo.com published a photo of mine from Budapest called “Spring Gardening“.

About a week ago they published another photo of mine from Barcelona called “Casa Mila Rooftop“.

I’m feeling validated.

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Bummer. The British Columbia Lions of the Canadian Football League lost last night. Their quest for a perfect season is now over. They were 11-0 going into last night. Oh well. They still have a 4 game lead in the West with 8 more regular season games to go.

I guess after living in Vancouver last fall and watching BC lose the CFL Championship last year I still pull for them a bit…even if it is the CFL. It’s still football though, eh?