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I upgraded to a Blackberry Curve 8330 recently (I know, no iPhone in Canada and I really needed one for work) and now that I'm fully mobile with my email, I've revisited the Twitter scene and found it's actually quite fun (much better than those stupid Facebook status messages).

Feel free to add me or even my friend to your Twitter feed. Can't promise a lot just yet but I'll try to keep it interesting!

I set up my Adium GTalk account with Twitter as a contact and am having a blast watching the steady stream of tweets based on my tracked phrases.

Tori's Tri will be held on July 21, 2007 here in Vancouver to celebrate the life and commemorate the unfortunate death of Canadian Olympic hopeful and Canadian World Championship duathelete. You can find her story here.

I had the honor of being in a running class that she taught here in Vancouver and was always amazed at the grace and agility of Tori when she would run effortlessly while the rest of us huffed and puffed in desperation trying to keep up with her.

Godspeed, wherever she may be.

I love cooking almost as much as I do eating. Here's my tested recipe for absolutely perfect chocolate cookies, especially if you like slightly softer, chewier type of cookies. Whipping up a batch of cookies is so fast and the best part is, you know exactly what's going into them.

Bodyworlds 3 opens today in Vancouver. I remember reading about this back in the 90s but missed my opportunity to see the exhibit when it was in Tokyo. I'm looking forward to being able to see it here in Vancouver and was quite surprised to hear that the Catholic church was calling for a boycott on the radio. It's incredible to see what an absolute hypocrisy religion can be sometimes; on one hand they are putting so much pressure on the anti-abortion, avoid birth control because life is precious issue, but at the same time, they cannot even look the human body without extreme prejudice.

Paul Schratz, spokesperson for the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Vancouver, said the archdiocese cannot endorse the exhibit, Body Worlds 3: The Anatomical Exhibition of Real Human Bodies, which opens at Telus World of Science, Sept. 15.

"So far we haven't issued a formal statement on the exhibit," said Schratz. "But according to the Catholic Church the body is sacred and should be treated with respect at all times. We have major concerns that level of respect is not being met."

Hell, the fact that it's educational and from what I've been told, the fetus exhibit alone would be enough to show that life IS precious and not just a lump of flesh; besides, do I really care if it's been endorsed by the church? I think not...

A few months back, Microsoft released Virtual Server 2005 R2 for free. This is a direct link to the 32-bit installer if you don't want to go through the registration process.