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This is my team – We be strong and free baby! Yesterday the Swiss beat the favoured Russian team at the World Junior Hockey Championship. I was shouting “davai Swiss!” (Go Swiss! in Russian) with Irina cheering her homeland. I was rooting for the underdog I told her, [...] An interesting series is starting tonight on TVO. Here’s a description from their website: “The written word: in prehistoric times, it took the form of drawings in caves. Today it speeds past on the screens of our electronic devices at the touch of a finger. How did the simple act of reading come to be? [...] My comp art from TV series "The Wire" I often claim that I’m not much of a TV watcher – aside from a Saturday night hockey game or interesting doc on TVO or Newsworld. Truth is, that all changed when I got hooked on “Northern Exposure” about 8 years ago. I saw almost the [...] I found some interesting articles regarding the Olympics, China and the evolution and use of English. Alongside stories about the upcoming Olympics and the sports and politics, some discussion has been going on about the use of English in China, and in particular the butchering of the language by Chinese sign-makers using antiquated dictionaries/thesauruses (and [...] |
Mike Simpson is a teacher, writer, musician and designer from Toronto, Canada. He is a new media enthusiast and has been "strongandfree" since 1996. Mike is working on new graphic design, developing websites and multimedia, and leading training workshops on weekends. Check out Strong+Free for his Design and Media work. Check out Mike's Edu-Tech Workshop site. Please contact him at this address: mike | strongandfree.ca 
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