Archive for August, 2008

What Happens In Vegas

starring Cameron Diaz and Ashton Kutcher
This film had me scared. I really wanted to love it, but was frightened that one of these two actors would do what they do at times and bomb the show. This wasn’t the case here. It was very funny and a great [...]

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The Art of War 2 – Betrayal

starring Wesley Snipes
This painful little movie only shows that some films don’t really deserve a sequel. In fact, not watching the first one made it difficult to follow and frankly it was poor acting and painful to watch. Even knowing that Snipes is in trouble with the IRS and wanting [...]

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The Bank Job

starring Jason Statham
I have always been a fan of the “action man” in Jason Statham. He is quite the actor and the trailers prior to this movie showed almost all of his films. That is what tipped me off about this movie needing a little help to sell it as [...]

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starring Jim Sturgess, Kate Bosworth, Laurence Fishburne and Kevin Spacey
I watched the Canadian version of this money a couple of years ago and it was really quite entertaining. While the premise was much the same, the facts were different and I was awaiting this movie release with anticipation. This movie is [...]

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Miss Pettigrew

starring Frances McDormand and Amy Adams
This movie takes place in London just prior to WW2 when the social atmosphere was still at a high level. Miss Pettigrew (McDormand), stumbling between poverty and employment, gets a job helping a young actress (Adams) juggle her social and love activities. Basically, this [...]

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So Where Have You Been?

The title of this post is actually a question that I have been getting more and more often lately.     The most truthful answer is that I have been so busy that I haven’t been able to do many of the things I usually do in my spare time.   This includes in no particular order:

Spend much [...]

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Maple Leaf CEO Message

Many of you must have heard about the recall of meat from the Maple Leaf Foods plant in Toronto due to an outbreak of Listeria that has left several sick and has also led to some fatalities.   It is a difficult issue as I know from being in the food industry, but I will leave [...]

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Backing Up With JungleDisk

I am sure that most of you have a “horror story” about a computer failure, natural disaster or just plain incompetence with regards to our data.   I must say that with all the bad luck I have had with computers over the years, my backup solutions have managed to save me more than once.    Some [...]

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Aaron Lewis – “Black”

Growing up, we all find songs that mean everything to us at the time.    Sometimes if we are lucky we keep some of these songs with us as we grow up into our adult lives.     I know that I can say without much trouble that “Pearl Jam – 10″ would be in my top 3 [...]

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