Tuesday, February 25, 2003
On the way back home on the train I started writing an article for TCP tentatively titled "The Diskette is Dead. Long Live the Memory Bar!" The idea for it has been percolating in my thoughts soon after picking it up. I surprised myself in being able to write about half of the intended article in the short amount of time I had. The final word in portable data storage? Probably not –especially considering the option of CD-Rs and eventually comparably-priced DVD-Rs – but it makes a helluva good stopgap, and a workable middle-ground between diskettes and CD-Rs.
After putting the kids to bed Erika managed to arrange a babysitter for our "date" Friday evening. Then I opened up my notebook, went online and snagged a couple of tickets for "Mama Mia". Erika really wants to see it, and at the moment we can, so... Ever since Annie was born we've had a long dry spell when it comes to theatre. Nice to make up for it with this and "Wingfield on Ice" a couple of weeks back. Admittedly there was a time when going to see a show based on nothing but ABBA songs would have filled me with abject horror. Now it just seems an innocuous part of the musical landscape.
Received my first ever order from Amazon.ca: a copy of Brian Eno's "A Year with Swollen Appendices", "Voices of Morebath" by Eamon Duffy as well as a copy of "The Carnivorous Carnical" by Lemony Snickett, which I picked up on Michael W.'s behest. I bought from Amazon.ca instead of my usual Chapters/Indigo because they didn't stock the "Voices of Morebath", which I first heard about while reading an article about it some time ago in an issue of BBC History magazine.
A good piece of news: Vanessa has been accepted into the French immersion program at Williamson Road school.
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