Vikingsson on October 9th, 2007

Canadian Thanksgiving is over but what a strange weather season this has been so far. Thanksgiving in Canada is about the harvest and as such happens one month before the U.S. holiday of the same name. Fall and harvest festivals happen all over the countryside. But this year we’re having much warmer [...]

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Vikingsson on October 7th, 2007

To paraphrase the clever line “it’s the economy, stupid” I would boil down the whole argument about climate change to one simple statement, if for no other reason than pollution we should get really serious about cleaning up this beautiful but scarred planet. Most of the same things that one side says contributes to [...]

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Vikingsson on October 6th, 2007

Real life can be much different than what you get in the movies and the ironically named ‘reality’ shows. But in Iceland almost everything is different than elsewhere (wish I was there). With barely 100 prisoners in the whole country there isn’t exactly a huge crime problem even for a country with a [...]

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Vikingsson on October 5th, 2007

Toronto:: Well September was a bust and it is now October but it still isn’t a proper Autumn. It still feels like late summer and when it gets hot this time of the year the air does strange things. Yesterday the fog rolled in and out all day long. These conditions make [...]

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