http://www.dunaber.com by Michael Grey ... Sun, 07 Mar 2010 14:18:08 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Last night's final of the Toronto Branch of the Pipers' & Pipe Band Society of Ontario's amateur knock-out was a first-class event. The morning after listening to a dozen excellent amateur pipers go through their paces got me to thinking. OK. I was thinking about this last ... http://www.dunaber.com/2010/03/07/allemande-left-nod-to-the-judge/ I've had this ripped page from a really old magazine ad hanging around my desk for ever - on my handy magnetic bulletin board, to be precise. I don't know about you but I tend to put stuff up on the fridge or the bulletin board and have every ... http://www.dunaber.com/2010/03/02/oldtime-maxville/ I sometimes find Google's search prompt annoying. It can be a distraction when I'm impatiently on the hunt for some bit of info. It’s way too easy to get drawn in to other lines of thinking, other searches and subject matter. Looking for a new Indian restaurant? ... http://www.dunaber.com/2010/02/23/google-me-a-picture/ An excerpt from a piece produced by CBC Radio's Aparita Bhandari. Broadcast January 25, 2010. An excerpt from a piece here Blah blah blah. M. http://www.dunaber.com/2010/02/16/cbc-radio-one-interview/ Yesterday morning I dragged my ass out of bed and caught most of the bagad performances from the season's first bagad championship. The camera work wasn't especially sophisticated but the sound seemed pretty good and I was really thankful that a TV network in France opted to stream the ... http://www.dunaber.com/2010/02/15/bagads_the_long_and_short_of_it/ Surely, one of the most naïve Valentine cards of all time! [caption id="attachment_614" align="alignleft" width="800" caption="The only way to get tone!"][/caption] M. http://www.dunaber.com/2010/02/14/a-silly-valentine/ My first email of the day was a seriously laugh-out-loud experience. I mean LOL in the real sense. Not just the sort of thing we all do when we often send a sort of nondescript note or text and add "LOL": "I backed out of the driveway ... http://www.dunaber.com/2010/01/20/a-good-reed-soaking-is-what-you-need/ All the best to you and yours for a happy New Year - may it be the best ever! And here's one of the oddest postcards I've ever seen; someone actually posted this - in 1912! What's with the broom! Anyway, avoid snowbanks and keep your shoes on! M. http://www.dunaber.com/2009/12/31/happy-new-year/ Yikes. Its two days to 2010. Cliché alert: it seems like yesterday … we were all freaking out about the apocalyptic possibilities of a new millennium. Then, as now, I was working in the technology field and clearly recall being assigned a "war room" shift. For ... http://www.dunaber.com/2009/12/29/10-favourite-musical-memories-of-the-noughts/ Here's a bit of a Christmas laugh for one and all: a Toronto Police Pipe Band Christmas Greeting (none of the elves, by the way, know they star in the show [oops] - but you may recognize Ian K MacDonald, Doug Stronach, Malcolm MacLean [of Ardnamurchan], Angus Douglas Lampkin and ... http://www.dunaber.com/2009/12/23/merry-christmas/