Today, we had the first snowfall for this season.Upon waking up, we found that everything got a dusting overnight. It was not covering everything, but grass areas, cars, roofs, were all partially covered by a centimeter or less. The temperature was below zero during day time for the first time this winter.

The following is a brief background on how the neo-con policies were a significant driver behind attacking IraqFor the longest of time, I wanted to write something about the influence neocons have in America's Foreign Policy, but never got around to it. The other day, I stumbled across a post on Slashdot that nicely summarizes the topic, by someone called egrinake, who seems to be from Norway.

Here are some notes and thoughts on the results of the US Presidential Elections of 2004, where George W. Bush won a second term.

Here are some funny Canadian web sites, many of them with a political slant, specially with our neighbors to the south.

• MarryAnAmerican is a way for miserable progressive liberal Americans suffering the tyranny of the current US government to be emancipated by marrying a Canadian.
• VirtualCanadian is for those Americans who are not ready to move can register to be virtual Canadians.

Now that George W. Bush has won another four years in the Whitehouse, some Americans who do not like this are planning to move outside the USA.Over the past several months. I have seen people searching Google for Americans moving to Canada, and ending up on this humor page on my site. However, it turns out that this is for real.

Several search engine optimization (SEO) contests have been done recently. The contest is fairly simple: they select an uncommon phrase that contains some nonesense word. Whichever site shows up on top after the contest period is over, is the winner.I first learned about that with the phrase Nigritude Ultramarine.

The elections for president in the USA will happen tomorrow, Tuesday November 2, 2004. While there is no clear winner can be predicted so far, the rest of the world has decided who they want.There are many shadow votes and international votes out there. Start by taking a look at Global Vote 2004 who predict that John F. Kerry would win in all regions of the globe with a wide margin (77% to 71% of total) over George W. Bush (14.8% to 7.9%).

Today, while driving in Waterloo, Ontario, I saw three sandhill cranes flying south. Their stretched out neck, and grey color was the clear mark of this species.This brought memories of cranes in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.

Although autumn is a harbinger for the long cold winter here in Ontario, Canada, it also has the fall colors, which vary from year to year.

Peter Forsskål was a Swedish scientist who did a taxonomical classification of animals of the Red Sea region, and used the Arabic name as the species name.