Author: Gary Roberts

We were supposed to do our taxes this weekend, but that didn’t happen. Instead, we decided to rent a car and take off to Collingwood for the night. We booked ourselves into a quaint little inn called Beilds House Country Inn & Spa. It was a nicely arranged inn, with a very definite country feel to it; not…

Read More Taxes or a trip to Collinwood?

I went to Sadie’s Diner for breakfast this morning. It’s not a bad place to go if you’re vegetarian or vegan and in the mood for some greasy-spoon style food. That’s their specialty there, catering to the veggies and vegans. The place has a classic diner feel to it. The cooks serve up a variety of acceptable…

Read More A café kind of day

Some people think the way the CN Tower is lit up these days is decidedly tacky. Some just think it’s fun. Whatever the school of thought, if there’s a special occasion the tower usually displays a colour scheme appropriate to the event of the day. Yesterday being St. Patrick’s Day, the CN Tower was lit up in…

Read More Green Day

The Internet has increased exponentially in size and complexity over the last 10 years, and back in 1999 it was already providing online users with an embarrassment of riches in terms of information exchange, nascent technologies and ever-evolving formats for websites, and the potential to influence lives via communications with people halfway around the globe,…

Read More One click in ’99

I’m pleased to see that since its launch in 2003, my Lost and Found Pets web site at CanadaStrays.com is still going strong. In fact (within the last day or so, I guess) the counter on the sidebar has just passed the 1000 mark of “pets found by owner”. This is measured by the number of owners…

Read More 1003 pets found by owners!