This is a view of a willow tree in Mackenzie King Park in Montreal on October 28, 2023. Th weather is a lot worse and a lot colder now. There won't be any more views like this until spring. Pity!

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Evil Never Rests

I just received this in my e-mail. It is obviously a scam of some sort. As well, the attachment listed at the top is an .EXE file. If you open it, it causes some sort of program to start working. In this case, it is most probably a virus or some other type of malware.

What this Blog is About

 I have not been that lucky in the world of blogs. My first blog was started in December 2005. It was on Yahoo 360. Yahoo 360 went out of existence in late 2007, so I ended up moving to Multiply. The blog system in Multiply was shut down at the end of 2012. My main blog was then moved to Blogster:

http://www.blogster.com/nathanson1947

However, the posts from Multiply could only be transferred to Blogger. So what you have here are mainly older posts from Multiply (without the pictures, since they could not be transferred with the posts).

If you wish to contact me, my Facebook URL is:

 https://www.facebook.com/jack.nathanson,

and my main email address is:

 nathanson1947@yahoo.com

The photograph at the top of this blog entry was taken with an ipad at the Second Cup at the corner of Victoria and Van Horne in Montreal about a year and a half ago.

Last Blog on Multiply

If you look at the top of this page, you will probably see the following message: "From December 1st, we will unfortunately no longer be able to support Multiply in its current form. Read the details". What this means is that the new Indonesian owners of Multiply have decided to turn Multiply into an e-commerce site for Southeast Asia. All blogs and other material will be removed. So, therefore, all my future blog entries will be at the following site:

http://www.blogster.com/nathanson1947/

After having had to move here when Yahoo 360 closed, it is a pain having to move again, but sic transit mundi.

The Fall of Capitalism

It is approximately twenty years since the occurrence of what the media termed "The Fall of Communism". At that time, this was considered to be a good thing. A new era of freedom was supposed to be arising in Eastern Europe. Perhaps, today, there is a bit more freedom in the former Iron Curtain countries. On the other hand, one could seriously argue that Vladimir Putin is no less autocratic than the Soviet government that preceded him. "Plus que ça change . . . ".

The world now has different problems to worry about. Forty years ago, there seemed to be a lot more prosperity on the planet. Could it be that, just because they were facing the competition of the Communist system, the companies and corporations in the Western World were on their best behavior and were trying to prove that the "Free Enterprise" system was able to provide a better life than the Communist system was able to? That may well have been the case. But nowadays, unadulterated greed seems to rule the roost. No matter how obscenely huge corporate profits may now be, there seems to be no way of lessening the ever-widening gap between the rich and the poor. Eventually, the situation will begin to resemble France in 1789 or Czarist Russia in 1917. And then, everything will collapse. That is, if environmental degradation has not already created a crisis situation. Take your choice.

Missing in Action? Well, perhaps.

I realize that I have not posted much recently. Perhaps this is partly because I am tired and bummed out by the winter. But there are other reasons as well.

As I may already have mentioned, my mother (who just turned 100) has Alzheimer's disease. She is now in the Baycrest facility in Toronto. But since she was originally living in the Province of Quebec, I ended up being in control of her financial affairs.

But this status also results in me having to submit an annual report to the Public Curator's Office.

This report was in fact submitted a year ago, but now it is under audit, which means that now I have to supply them with the following sort of information;

"                 - a copy of the bank books or the statements for the accounts bearing numbers 04741-xxxxxxx, 04741-xxxxxxy and 04701-xxxxxxz for the period of November 3, 2008 to December 31, 2009;
                  - a proof of the registration name of these accounts;
                  - a copy of all the deposit certificates;
                  - the receipts for the accommodation and boarding expenses paid in the                amount of 45 460,00 $;
                  - the vouchers for the caregivers paid (41 040,00 $);"

I admit that there is an accountant doing some of the work, but this whole business has kept me occupied for the last couple of months.

The photo of me above was one taken in early January by a friend with a disposable camera. I have converted it so that it can be viewed in 3D by any of you who happen to have ChromaDepth 3D glasses.

Facebook's Instant Personalization Is the Real Privacy Hairball: Tech News and Analysis «

http://gigaom.com/2010/04/22/facebooks-instant-personalization-is-the-real-privacy-hairball/
Shows one of Facebook's new attempts to invade people's privacy and how to disable it.