Add last.fm widget to my blog page

Now you can see what I'm listening to, try not to laugh to hard.

azure_reverie told me about this.

Add last.fm widget to my blog page

Now you can see what I'm listening to, try not to laugh to hard.

azure_reverie told me about this.

Should I buy songs from iTunes

Now that I have a iPhone, and I'm using Last.fm to find new music, I find myself in a dilemma.

Should I  buy a song from iTunes; a song that I can only play on a iPod?

I just can't do it :(

Moving Back to Toronto

For the last 3 months, we have been looking to move back into the city, but now that we are ready to do so, the bottom is falling out from under the US economy. Perfect timing on our part. For now, we are going to wait until next year, and hope that things get better.

Not much else is going on with us, things are good, and we are spending more time with the family, witch is always fun.

Don't have too much to say today, hope to have more next time.

I Can’t take it any more!!

OMG, they are giving away free hamburgers at work today, and I can’t have any; this really sucks!! I’m trying to eat right, and I need to save my weekends for the bad food. I really need to find foods that are good for me that I really like, and do not take any time to make.

Oh ya, long time no blog. I was at a dinner party on the weekend, and someone mentioned that I have not blogged anything in months, so this is just a short blog to get me started, and back in the mode.

Ok I’m off to eat my crappy lunch, while others have their burgers

This is what I have to say about that. (Black-Focused Schools)

I don’t like to talk about controversial issues on this blog, however I have been asked a number of times, what is my opinion regarding Black-Focused Schools. When I tell them what I think, I do manage to make them see my point of view, and I find that they do agree with me.

For those of you not living in Toronto, here is the issue: Some areas of the city that have schools with high a population of black students are finding that there are high drop out rates, and the student are scoring lower academically. Some people feel that the school system is not looking at the needs of the black students, because they do not understand were they are coming from, and that a Black-Focused school may address this problem. This is just my opinion of the issue as I see it, and I know that there is a lot more to it then that.

Now what do I think? Yes there is a problem, and yes the school system is not doing what they need to do to fix it, and yes we do need Black-Focused schools. However I don’t think that a government run black-focused school will help the problem.
First off; I did not support giving government money to Faith-Based School, (that issue made me change my vote from the PC’s to the Liberals) so giving money to have a Black-Focused school is the same thing.
Second; the school system needs fixing, and doing this will just put a new problem inside a broken system, fix the entire system first.
What needs to be done is have Black-Focused schools, that are created from the community, run by the community, with community money, and these schools must be run out side of the public system (but also complement that system). Now I know this is something that would be harder to get off the ground. The black community in Canada does not have the level of funds that they do in the States, however unless we as black people start to look at the problem within and stop pointing the finger at others, we will not move forward as a community. Yes there are problem from the out side, but in Canada, those problems can be fix with education, and a strong family, and we are starting to waver on both fronts. 

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Windy Morning

I guess I will start up this blogging thing again. Long time no blog. Not a good first month for 2008. New Years Eve, was sick, and could not get out of bed for two weeks, then my first night of volleyball, I sprained my ankle, and it will take 4 to 6 weeks to heal; and just last weekend, first poker night of the year, I lost big time (my first lost in a long time). And to top it off, yesterday I locked my keys in the car. Here’s looking forward to February.

Woke up to a lot of nose out side, and did not know what it was, it was a strange sound. I was not too concerned, because the dog was not barking, so I did not care. Then Just before Dan left for work, he told me to look out the window; that gave me my answer to the noise in the early morning:

Green and Blue recycle bin’s all over the street, and no garbage in them (oh god, I bet all the neighbours garbage is at the side of our house. People don’t heed the News; they did say that it was going to be very windy today.) Oh god, let this month be done with.