Writ of Mainprize

Lindsay was a new competition venue this year.  Despite the heat and dust, missing Drum Sergeant, and a replacement Bass drummer, we did quite well and came in a respectable second place.  This YouTube video has surprisingly good sound, which shows off the band quite well.

Here is a very good article on the utter sham that is Homeopathy at Neurologicablog. I wish we could stamp out these snake oil charlatans. It's even worse when their cures, or more precisely the lack of them, end up killing people.

I'm off to the highland games in Georgetown. I've been playing with the Grade 3 Toronto Police Pipe Band for the past three year. This year, the band consists of a bunch of new members. For some, this is their first real Highland Games band competition. The weather looks good, and our set sounds good. Here's to the beginning of a new competition season! Update: We won! First place for Grade III. Woo-hoo! See us on

How do people find the time to write diaries, get organized or even write blogs. There's always so many things I need to do and even more things I'd like to do. My Xbox is broken, so I can't even blame wasting time on that...Where is all my free time?

I've rewritten the original Gallery Link plugin to be compatible with Movable Type 4 and with Gallery 2 (Sorry, Gallery 1 users, my plugin is not compatible. The old one should still work for you.) I'm still working out the bugs. Watch this space, I will release the plugin shortly. After switching to Wordpress, my enthusiasm for Movable Type has wained. Sorry. Send me a line if you are interested in the code set.