Attached is an interesting view of Copenhagen as a cycling city and comparing it to the Pacific Northwest in the U.S. The original file is at the Sightline Institute website

I'm hooked.

The Ontario Citizens’ Assembly on Electoral Reform will recommend that Ontario adopt a mixed-member proportional (MMP) voting system. At their April weekend session, Assembly members voted 94-8 in favour of recommending the MMP system, a decision that triggers an October 10, 2007, provincial referendum.

Last December I spent a few days down near Ottawa on a farm. My friend Jesse owns a share in a farmhouse.

I’ve posted some more images on flicker

Some things we did:

1. Walked on frozen lake.
2. Took photos of trees and snow.
3. Ate some pancakes with too much baking soda.
4. Played backgammon.
5. Stoked the fire.
6. Hauled firewood.
7. Hauled more firewood.
8. Lit fires in various stoves.
9. Lit candles.
   

I’ve just helped a friend set up a blog on Word press. It’s called morecoherent.wordpress.com. The host, Wordpress.com, is the hosting counterpart to the very popular open source blogging platform at wordpress.org.

Riding the subway I was becoming a bit annoyed as it occurred to me that “Intelligent Design” is just moving the goal posts around in the big ideological game between a divine creator and a “divine” nature. The goal posts could be called “irreducible complexity”, that is, that there are certain life functions that are just too complex to have happened by random genetic mutation.

I rarely see something that uses graphes and “powerpoint” presentations to such powerful effect. The meaning of life as reduced to some bullet points.

I’ve just updated the site to Drupal 5, using the new default theme of Garland. I want to make some big changes to it just it doesn’t look like everyone else’s theme. It’s got to be unique.

Please be patient as I iron out the kinks.

A Swedish researcher, Hans Rosling, has taking the data that governments have hidden in their password protected vaults and created some inspiring visualizations through a new non-profit called Gapminder.

Do you know the story about the shoemaker’s children who always go barefoot because he’s too busy making shoes for his workshop? Well, I’ve been that way with my own website but I’ve decided to spend a little bit of time getting something up.

My aim is to stop paying the other web server. Now all will be consolidated and you won’t know either way because all you’ll see is this page.