SARS
Today the Ontario Government releases the Final Report of the SARS Commission looking into the outbreak of that virus in Toronto during 2003. I was affected by the outbreak through the misfortune of having bronchitis and a fever at the time, which led me to go for a checkup at a local hospital - my symptoms were close enough to SARS that I ended up being quarantined for 8 days in St. Joseph's Hospital, while my wife Christine and infant son Ethan had to stay behind closed doors in our house for that time. I posted about it on the Tribe Message Board at the time. I hope our health system has learned some lessons from the outbreak so that when something like a flu pandemic comes along, we will have more than a fly's chance in a hurricane of dealing with it.
refreshthing.com is a handy website that loads a given URL and then reloads it periodically (you set the interval) so you can keep track of a frequently updated page, like, say, a live blog account of the Steve Jobs Keynote speech at CES today.
If you have US70Million to spare, you just might be a candidate to purchase Bran Castle on Romania! Why, praytell you ask, is this a desirable property? Because it's the castle associated with Vlad the Impaler, the inspiration for Bram Stoker's Count Dracula. The castle gets half a million visitors a year. Who cares if the connecton with Vlad is somewhat suspect...