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I live in Edmonton, Canada - it's a metropolis with upwards of a million people living in its greater urban area, but pretty small potatoes compared to cities to the south. That suits me just fine. I've lived here nearly all my life, my family is nearby and I get the satisfaction of being a somewhat larger fish swimming in a smaller pool.

However, living in northern climes has coloured my perspective in ways that I can't imagine.

An uncle with a home in F...

Pump Up The Volume has arrived.

This 1990 classic starred Christian Slater and a then-unknown Samantha Mathis, as a pair of improbably elderly high school students engaged in ham radio anti-authoritarian hijinks. I loved it. Don't judge me. Slater broadcast sedition on the FM band to an increasing number of listeners...

I'll be posting the occasional link here, when someone else's opinion will express mine far better than I could. One of daveberta's posts was such a find. The former editor of Insight Into Government, Ric Vivone, is publishing a book of essays on Klein-era politics in Alberta. I am completely in agreement with Cournoyer that I can't wait for this book to hit the shelves!

I disco...

All right, so I have taken some design courses and have built a number of websites myself. However, in order to get my new site up and running as quickly as possible, I decided to try out some of the online site builder options.

My first attempt was with HostPapa and SohoLaunch. Friends had told me they had great tools, but Soho wouldn't work for me and I ended up chewing the carpet in f...

OK - I can't vouch for veracity, but it's a nice meme. I've changed my Twitter status (@enThrall) and posted it to my followers (145!). Why not do the same?

Via @LeeDistad

David Rubenstein says:

If you're on Twitter, set your location to Tehran and your time zone to GMT +3.30. Iranian security forces are hunting for bloggers u...