This is completely off topic, but I'll be in Vienna, Austria for New Year's, and there is a big concert by the Vienna Philharmonic on the morning of January 1st that we would absolutely love to attend -- my other half is Croatian and he used to listen to this concert every year on the radio from Croatia. I know that the tickets sell out a year in advance, but if you know of any way to get a couple of tickets for this, please let me know -- I'll do a blog post in your honour. :)

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A happy 4th of July to all my American readers. For me, it's a day to catch up on my RSS feeds and email, since there's so little new content coming in today, and finish up a couple of small projects.

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It's Canada's 139th birthday today; happy birthday to us! The best parade that I saw today was the one through Chinatown, where Canadian flags were carried alongside Chinese dragon puppets and tagu drummers. I was glad to be on foot; it must have snarled traffic over the entire west side of downtown. The Festival of Fire fireworks competition kicks off tonight at 10:30 from a barge off Ontario Place, and should be visible from anywhere along the lake.

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For the code monkeys in the crowd, you'll fall out of your cubicle laughing at this.

(via Sutha Kamal)

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A cool map that you can create of the countries that you've visited. Here's mine:

create your own visited countries map

When I look at it, I'm more amazed by the places that I haven't been (nothing in South America? or Asia?) than the 29 countries that I have.

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I received an email from James Taylor today, and on second reading, I noticed the following in small print at the end of his signature block:

Despite not being sent from my Blackberry, this email may nevertheless be terse and contain spelling and grammatical errors.

As a very sympathetic Blackberry user, I'm still laughing.

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