The thermometer outside says +10 and there's no snow in sight. I'm wondering if I went through a time warp on my way back from Cuba to the beginning of October. But just checking the forecast now I see that we may be in for it next week as the temperatures are to drop to the -18 range and there are flurries predicted. So, although they are saying we will probably have another brown Christmas, I should still get out there and look for that new winter coat I have been needing for the last couple of years.
I've been playing around with the video editing program Adobe Premiere 5.0 in an attempt to learn how to use it well enough to build an entertaining slide presentation for Angie & Lee's wedding. So far things are looking good. I'm getting the hang of it and things are working as they should so I am inspired. I may be able to pull something off for the spring. Now I have to try and justify buying a new digital camcorder to be able to digitize our old home video stuff.
The Ukraine supreme court has ruled that the election run off in that country is invalid and must be redone, much to the joy of the Yushchenko backers. Maybe this time they will do it properly and I guess Foreign Affairs Minister Pierre Pettigrew offered Canada's help in efforts to ensure that voting is conducted in a legitimate manner. "Canada will do everything it can to assist in that election," Pettigrew said. "We will want to send a significant number of observers." Maybe they should send a delegation from Florida as well, for good measure.
And IBM has announced that it is unloading it's PC computer business, not to American interests but to the Chinese. It seems IBM is lagging behind fat cat PC manufacturers like Dell and HP but PCs are no longer IBM's strong suit in today's throw away technology industry. Still, its interesting to see how the face of the industry is changing especially when power houses like Big Blue are finding their futures off shore.

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