Looking for the heart fully alive
Archive for January, 2010
tweet!
Jan 24th
Donna is attempting to use Twitter… and tweet and re-tweet and twit and waddle and whatever else.
If you want to follow along (or laugh at Donna trying to use Twitter) http://www.twitter.com/olivepeople
Sicko [Movie] – watch it!
Jan 4th
Michael Moore’s movie “Sicko” was featured on CBC Newsworld’s “The Passionate Eye” tonight. So here is my movie review. Actually it’s only a partial movie review… I only saw the last half-ish or so. And not really a review — more of a recommendation to watch it if you haven’t yet. And technically it’s a documentary and not a movie. So far this blog post is going really well. LOL
But Michael Moore’s look at the American health care system (comparing it to other countries throughout the world including Canada, the UK, France, and even Cuba) is truly eye opening. It makes me glad to be in Canada. It makes me vaguely interested in moving to France. (If you watch it, you’ll understand why!) But also makes me question why the Canadian (Ontario, even) way of doing healthcare is… so… incomplete.
I’m grateful for good insurance through my employer… I do recall days where I didn’t have any. And I’m grateful for essential coverage through the provincial government… again, especially for times when I didn’t have anything else to fall back on. But why is everything about money? Healthcare should be an example of something that is solely about quality. I know that, at present, I’m not informed enough to contrast and compare with specifics and hard, cold facts. But I’ve had just enough firsthand experience over the years to know that the healthcare workers don’t get what they deserve or need (at least not the good ones!) and often enough neither do the patients.
Anyway – watch the film. Think for yourself. Ask questions. Covet change and work toward that change.
Noticed…
Jan 3rd
Some food for thought:
With regard to the freedom of the individual for choice with regard to abortion, there’s one individual who’s not being considered at all. That’s the one who is being aborted. And I’ve noticed that everybody that is for abortion has already been born.
– Ronald Reagan
Remote control woes resolved
Jan 2nd
For much of the last day, I have been trying to figure out how to make the new living room “entertainment system” setup work all on a single remote. Part of the problem I’ll blame on the TV being an Olevia and reading tons and tons of negative stories about how the thing cannot be programmed easily with other remotes. I read and read, came up with other ways to approach the problem from, etc. Looked for seemingly non-existent remote codes for Olevia TVs.
Then… I turned the Rogers cable remote control over. www.urcsupport.com was listed under the instructions that did me no good. But I hadn’t been to that site yet, so I thought I would try.
BEST THING I ever could have done in this situation! Found out the Olevia TV code for my remote was 1610… promptly learned that I could control the power and volume from the cable remote, and rejoiced in my victory. Looks like a useful site for people trying to simplify down to a single remote. Hopefully it helps somebody else out there!
