Are you kidding me?  It's 9 minutes into the second period and Canada is up 4-0.  I think we should convert all the ice here to big ice.

Ooooh...11:25 into the 2nd and it's 4-1 Canada.

Ergh!  19:24 into the second and it's 4-2 Canada.

20 minutes to go...come on Canada...you need at least one more to tie this thing up on BIG ICE!

Here we go!  Vingt minutes.

Six minutes to go!  I typed out six in French and then realized that it's the same in English.

Hang in there...come on...two minutes...

4-2 Final for Canada!  First Championship on big ice since 1997 and a third straight Championship!  Good job lads.  Good job.

Previous head to head results.

Full story at TSN. 

It's on!  Canada vs Russia in the Finals today at 1230 on TSN.  Read up on it.  This game is far too close to call and I hope it's an exciting game.  These kids need the experience and this whole tournament on big ice has been awesome to watch.

Semi-final against the USA yesterday has left me a little shaken as it went to a shootout and fortunately we made it through.

Sorry, this should've been posted back on January 1st 2007. 

You know a party is good when you leave and it's still going on and you still want to stay there. Just got back from Dan and Joanne's New Year Party and it's quite a ruckus. They're still singing and dancing over there right now. Lots of Wii. Lots of good conversation (as usual) and I met a top programmer from Next Level Games who worked on Super Mario Strikers who was very forth coming with advice on the game industry and in general what we (WP) can expect.

All in all an excellent way to bring in 2007 and I hope there are many more such parties in the future.

So Saddam Hussein is gone and the world is supposedly a safer place but did anybody stop and think about Roman Danylo?

Roman, as you may not know, is a comedian who has several trademark characters that he (poorly but comedically, well, his Tom Cruise is pretty good) portrays in his comedy routines on Comedy Inc.. One of his characters is (or should I say 'was'?) Saddam Hussein and a gang of Saddam impersonators.  Saddam and his impersonators have a variety of professions including talk show hosts and restaurant operators.

To imagine that Roman will now be left with a gaping hole in his repetoire that can only be filled by the portrayal (I demand a poor portrayal) of another dictator is hard to imagine. Even harder to imagine is what he'll fill that hole with as I'm pretty sure there's no way he can do a Kim Jong Ill...he's not that talented.

So I ask you Mr. Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki (of Iraq), what's Roman to do now?  Politics.

While there were a lot of movies out this year (and I manged to watch quite a few) and the tough task of ranking them comes down to me (as elected by planet Earth through a vote conducted just seconds ago). In this post I'll be ranking most major movies that were released in theatres. Not all movies released may make this listing, please let me know if I miss something big. Remember, these are in order of what I like and enjoyed the most.

1. Casino Royale
2. Pan's Labyrinth
3. Children of Men
4. Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
5. Rocky Balboa
6. Jet Li's Fearless
7. Inside Man
8. The Pursuit of Happyness
9. V for Vendetta
10. Flags of Our Fathers
11. Blood Diamond
12. The Fountain
13. Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby
14. The Protector (Tom yum goong)
15. Nacho Libre
16. Little Miss Sunshine
17. The Departed
18. The Devil Wears Prada
19. Miami Vice
20. The Prestige
21. Invincible
22. Thank You for Smoking
23. Mission: Impossible III
24. Apocalypto
25. Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
26. The Illusionist
27. Curious George
28. Eight Below
29. Stranger Than Fiction
30. 16 Blocks
31. World Trade Center
32. Crank
33. Glory Road
34. An Inconvenient Truth
35. Ice Age: The Meltdown
36. Jackass: Number Two
37. The Holiday
38. The Good Shepherd
39. Deja Vu
40. Clerks II
41. Babel
42. Lucky Number Slevin
43. The Da Vinci Code
44. Nanny McPhee
45. The Ant Bully
46. Last Holiday
47. The Guardian
48. The Pink Panther
49. Open Season
50. Flushed Away
51. Charlotte's Web
52. We Are Marshall
53. Akeelah and the Bee
54. The Queen
55. One Night With the King
56. Underworld: Evolution
57. My Super Ex-Girlfriend
58. Scoop
59. The Descent
60. Marie Antoinette
61. Hollywoodland
62. Tristan and Isolde
63. The Last Kiss
64. Poseidon
65. Failure to Launch
66. Bon Cop, Bad Cop
67. Dave Chappelle's Block Party
68. Cars
69. Night at the Museum
70. Man of the Year
71. National Lampoon's Van Wilder: The Rise of Taj
72. Happy Feet
73. Saw III
74. The Marine
75. Accepted
76. Final Destination 3
77. Monster House
78. ATL
79. Zoom
80. Take the Lead
81. How to Eat Fried Worms
82. United 93
83. Just My Luck
84. Dreamgirls
85. The Black Dahlia
86. The Hills Have Eyes
87. X-Men: The Last Stand
88. The Shaggy Dog
89. Step Up
90. Hostel
91. Ultraviolet
92. An American Haunting
93. The Benchwarmers
94. Over the Hedge
95. Flyboys
96. Lady in the Water
97. When a Stranger Calls
98. Date Movie
99. Little Man
100. See No Evil
101. Flicka
102. Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning
103. She's the Man
104. Scary Movie 4
105. Barnyard: The Original Party Animals
106. The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift
107. Stick It
108. Bobby
109. The Sentinel
110. Snakes on a Plane
111. Click
112. Beerfest
113. Tenacious D in: The Pick of Destiny
114. The Wild
115. Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties
116. The Nativity Story
117. Superman Returns
118. Firewall
119. The Grudge 2
120. The Lake House
121. The Wicker Man
122. Gridiron Gang
123. Silent Hill
124. Larry the Cable Guy: Health Inspector
125. Employee of the Month
126. Stay Alive
127. Material Girls
128. Big Momma's House 2
129. Waist Deep
130. School for Scoundrels
131. Pulse
132. Aquamarine
133. Unaccompanied Minors
134. Tyler Perry's Madea's Family Reunion
135. The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause
136. The Break-Up
137. You, Me and Dupree
138. Idlewild
139. John Tucker Must Die
140. RV
141. Black Christmas
142. The Covenant
143. Freedomland
144. Eragon
145. Annapolis

Been hearing a lot about how you guys don't know how to walk on ice. Listen up, you don't walk on ice you slide on it. You can't expect the world to change or conform to you just because you want to walk or run in a particular way. You need to take shorter steps, slow down a bit, bend your knees a bit and slide. My advice is to take your kids to an ice rink and just have them run around a bit so they'll adjust for the future.

Although with global warming it's likely they'll never have to face snow again.

Wow, Actionscript 3.0 (Flex 2.0) is substantially different from Actionscript 2.0. I like AS 3 as it's more structured and ordered like the languages I usually deal with. Of course all this structure means porting over several thousand lines of old code ends up creating a delicious weekend of rewriting hundreds of lines of code in order to take advantage of new features.

Well, hopefully this project will see the light of day as it's a good one. Actually, this project is already live on one site that I work on and I'll be lending a version of this one to a friend shortly for use on his website so...production!

2 - 0!!! (vs Sweden)

Full Story here but it was an excellent tense game. Carey Price (the goalie) was a solid rock in this game and quite impressive, keep an eye out for him.

...and I'll say it again: "Hiring Mercenaries is always a good idea."

Chad (of Warp Pipe) has been working ona quick little tidbit for ya'll. Enjoy/Digg It.