Humble Opinions

The view from my apartment balcony at 9:00am. It's snowing again today in Calgary. Nothing unusual in that, except that the humidity is unusually high at 85% or more. Typically it's in the low 50s - very dry. This humidity is making it icy on the roads. A dozen accidents were reported this morning. The morning TV news showed a wonderful scene of a large 4WD spinning slowly along the street bouncing off cars parked along the side. Nothing the driver could do. Luckily I take the c-train in to campus.

From Cowley14Jan2007 Just returned in few minutes ago from a fabulous weekend South near the Castle Mountain ski resort. We didn't go anywhere near the resort - we wre on the castle river in a lovely house overlooking the Rocky's to the West and the Montana's to the South-West. A walk on the frozen lake first thing in the morning and we saw a family of coyote crossing the ice, and mink tracks in the snow. And of course deer were wandering by all day. Just a lovely place to sit and watch the mountains and drink beer and enjoy the barbeque. I'll post pictures of Bob Susan Andrew's house to the blog later. powered by performancing firefox

This appeared in today's ZDNET newsletter about the new iPhone from Apple. I wonder if SD will be intersted in buying one when/if it appears in Australia. Personally I'd wait for version II when all of the bugs have been ironed out. iPhone blows away expectations by ZDNet 's Ed Burnette -- Once in a while, the truth can be wilder than the rumors. Such was the case today at MacWorld 2007, where Steve Jobs unveiled the long awaited iPhone.

Bald Rock National Park is a continuation of Giraween National Park but on the NSW side of the border with Qld. It's a rather spectacular climb. More interesting than but not quite as steep as the climb up "the Pyramids" at Giraween.

Giraween National Park is about 3 hours drive South West from Brisbane, close to the wine and stone-fruit producing town of Stanthorp. Granite boulders make this a fascinating place. Strange that most of the people around were International tourists. With only a week before Christmas I thought the camping grounds and motels would be all full.

  Ferris, Anette, Kym, Leonie-Marie, me, Maraike, Pauline in the Campus Club after our last class in Advanced Market Modelling , October 2006. Relief for all! 

  Pauline Tang and Mirawati Hitati celebrate doing a damn good job in my Advanced Marketing Modelling course this last semester. These guys, and the whole class, really made me proud with their hard work and real productivity.