http://www.jamesshearer.com Dare to Dream... What can be imagined can be achieved Sat, 10 Mar 2007 22:01:39 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en .flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Pumpkins at the orchard, originally uploaded by jamesshearer. Around about Thanks Giving, Vanessa, Rob and I were driving from Vancouver to the Okanagan. The ... http://www.jamesshearer.com/Travel/pumpkins-at-the-orchard/ .flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Fresh produce at the market, originally uploaded by jamesshearer. I spent a few days in the town of Lugano in southern Switzerland. Unfortunately for ... http://www.jamesshearer.com/Travel/fresh-produce-at-the-market/ I am in the early stages of putting together a new business project and today I have been catching up on unread posts in my Bloglines. One I just came across was a post about venture capital aptitude test from Guy Kawasaki's blog about a venture capital aptitude test. This is ... http://www.jamesshearer.com/business/the-venture-capital-aptitude-test-vcat/ I am going to be adding my photographs from my travels over the past 8 years. This is a case of me going through the many DVDs and CDs I have burned with the photos on, selecting a few and uploading them. Considering that I have been to over 30 ... http://www.jamesshearer.com/Travel/flickr-photos/ After some pretty bad hosting problems which meant my Database became corrupted and my website went down I have decided to give up with Drupal and go back to Wordpress. As great as Drupal appears to be, it ended up being a source of time wasting and frustration due to the ... http://www.jamesshearer.com/Technology/Blogging/migrating-from-drupal-to-wordpress/ I am pretty wiped out after a fun filled weekend in Whistler where I witnessed France loose the World Cup. Our stay in a retro 70's log cabin in the forest north of Whistler was a great way to spend a weekend, socialise with friends and relax. Vanessa and I took ... http://www.jamesshearer.com/Travel/whistler_world_cup/ 1.1m for 'cheap' domain names, see here http://www.jamesshearer.com/business/irony/ It is quite amazing that the USA claims to be the land of the free yet have so many restrictive laws they could be construed as totalitarian! Recently, Washington State has made it illegal to gamble online. It is even illegal to run a website which mentions online gambling! It is ... http://www.jamesshearer.com/news-politics/land_of_the_free/ At the weekend I finally went canoeing in Canada!!! I've been here all this time and it is one thing I have never done. In Scotland I went canoeing and kayaking fairly regularly but never in Canada, the home of the boat you can carry. Vanessa and I took some sea kayaks ... http://www.jamesshearer.com/canada/canadian_transport/ Yesterday Stephen Harper lowered GST (The Canada-wide goods and services tax) from 7% to 6%. Because I am not yet a Canadian resident, this is about the only thing in a budget tax adjustment which would have any effect on me. Although, I can't really see it saving me more ... http://www.jamesshearer.com/canada/robbing_from_the_poor_to_give_to_the_rich/