A couple of days ago I posted a screen grab from a Google search, where CBC.CA’s subhead was “Experiencing Technical Difficulties”. 

On the 30th Jason MacDonald from CBC’s PR department commented:

I suspect that this is showing up on Google because we were down for about 4-1/2 hours on Monday. It should disappear once Google crawls us again (hopefully today or tomorrow).

Today, the 31st, Google’s got it back to normal.

Here’s something.

Open up Google.

Search CBC.

The site’s working fine, so what’s with Experiencing Technical Difficulties ?

Maybe it’s a new show.

While strolling through a local electronics shop, I noticed that they had a new Mac hooked up to a projector and a big screen.

There was a lineup of people jostling to get in front of the machine.
But they weren’t lining up to try out the hot new Mac w/Intel chip.

They were lining up to play with Photo Booth’s crazy image mangler.

Nothing sells computers better. This effect is called Twirl.

Great for the kids who could spend all day playing with Twirl on my new MacBook Pro.

However, a far more realistic effect I’ve discovered is this one.

It’s called Bald, and wow is it ever realistic.

Look at this!

Wow. In their heyday, the Guess Who would barely look out the window as they flew over Dauphin. Even in their less-than-heydays, they’d barely slowdown. Mind you, former Guess Who guitarist Kurt Winter (now deceased) was from Dauphin, and we used to see him up there occasionally.

But this is big news.  Burton Cummings, the man who fronted the Guess Who when their 60’s hits kept the Beatles from hitting Number 1 on the Billboard charts, the very same Burton Cummings, is opening the new Credit Union Place in Dauphin.

He doesn’t own it or anything – he’s just opening it.

Holy Moly. 

That picture of Burt has got to be 30 years old. It might even be at one of those shows the Guess Who did at Rainbow Stage in Winnipeg. That was me in row 12 going ‘wooowoo’.

And check out this pricing.  “Default, Hedley and Guests” are 40 bucks, and one of the biggest names in rock history is only 60 bucks.  More Dauphin bargains for you. I kinda doubt he hauls out the white grand piano for 60 buck-a-head gigs (tax and service charges included!).

I wonder if Burt’ll make an appearance at my old station CKDM (now thoroughly country I believe).  What d’ya think Bruce? I’ll bet there’ll be more than a few 50-something babes cruising the stage door at the Credit Union Place after this gig. 

I’ve met Burt exactly twice.

Once at his ‘after’ party when he was the host of the Juno Awards.  The Toronto cops showed up at the party suite after some idiot called them because he dropped his wallet in the toilet. Toronto’s finest spent a few minutes at the door talking with Tiny (“nothing going on here officers”) then left after someone fished the billfold out of the john.

The second time was in Vancouver when he was a guest on Coast to Coast, a radio show I produced for CBC. He was totally charming.

So Burt, have a great show in my old home town, and do let me know what a Credit Union Place is, exactly.

I’ve been reading quite a bit about work/life balance lately.

It seems to be a hot topic.

So I decided I should track my day (today).

It turned out like this.

I could certainly use some more thinking time, but all in all, no complaints.

Forget about getting that T1 completed.  This is way more important: