Mumps outbreak spreads:

Vaccination is the best prevention for mumps, but doctors say young adults in their late teens and early 20s are more prone to the disease because they were born in a period when only one dose of vaccine was administered to children. Since 1996, preschoolers have received two doses.

True Alison, paying more for insurance then your car is worth is just silly. I do admit it was strange talking to "faceless" stooges to get my insurance quote. Very impersonal. However you won't find cheaper.

TD Meloche Monnex is by far the cheapest I've found while sitting at the compy this morning, they just don't do any of their claims face to face... (aka you can't talk to a 'real person,' all you'll get is a string of call centre staff.) but really, what more do i want right now anyway?

I just happen to live in a house of insurance workers... who have money... and think that the more expensive ways of doing things are better... but I don't feel like I should be paying more than the value of my car in one particular year to insure it.

Try meloche monnex TD for cheap insurance. Owning a car is so expensive because you are still young and have to pay higher insurance because of that. Sounds pretty fishy though why you would have to pay so much insurance on a car that old.

I have been paying WAY too much money on insurance... for how much my car is worth... the Canadian Black Book says my car ranges in price from $446 to $1360 if I'm lucky, and I own a 95 instead of a 97 (why won't they let me look for cars older than 97???)

so... with that in mind, I'm looking at a decrease from over $1800 to $1225 a year! (don't go with AMA insurance, they're really pricey)

gah... why is it that I never did this before? and why is owning a car so bloody expensive? why do I own a car?? arghh!

Sounds like the CinO guys are doing street hockey at the rink by Lister Hall this Sunday at 1:00PM. I'll keep you posted if things change.

Wow, in a week, the bandwidth usage for the website I made for my class (the aforementioned monkey) has been 1.89 GB.

(That might have had something to do with me christening the site by having it be the source of a 21 MB clinical exam video which was available as a reference for a clinical exam session we had this past Tuesday. But still!)

You mean I'm actually going to have to study tonight? G'damn.

Ah, well. If you hear, ngz, be sure to let me know if they're coming around again. 'Til then I'll just listen to that album for the 30th time (way to keep track of my single-mindedness, iTunes.)

for those of you planning on coming to Apostle of Hustle tonight, i'm sorry to inform you that the show has been cancelled due to their van breaking down sorry folks

Thanks to the new AACS claim that publishing a 128 bit integer, we can all obtain a copyright on our very own number.

Mine is: 95 6D 16 DF 84 4E 4D 75 64 06 39 0F 3C 17 4D 5E

If I catch anyone using or publishing it there'll be hell to pay.