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Randy Pausch passed away this morning.

He's the famed Carnegie Mellon University computer scientist who delivered a moving "Last Lecture" in September, 2007, resulting in over 3 million views on YouTube. His talk was titled "Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams."

I love how the folks at JibJab make great animation, biting satire and fantastic "musical theatre" type anthems.

And best of all, you can star (or co-star, as it seems to be) in the videos (I get poked in the rear toward the end):

I'm working on setting up thepulse.ca with Twitter using a service called Twitterfeed. It's supposed to pull in a feed of content at thepulse.ca and then post it to a Twitter account I've set up.

The hope is that people can follow what's going on in Prince George via Twitter if they so choose.

I've been on hiatus far too long. This week I shall be getting thepulse.ca and the newsletter, The Pulse, back on track.

The Caledonia Ramblers will be leading a Moderate hike to Chinlac on Sunday May 25th.Meet in the parking lot behind city hall at 7:30 AM Sunday. For more information call Nowell at 562-7485 or email caledoniaramblers [at] yahoo [dot] ca.

You've got to hand it to Bryndis Ogmundson, owner of Meow Records in downtown Prince George, for making it this far.

I discovered a nice little bit of citizen journalism today, and I'm glad to see it happening more and more.

Mathew Ingram has a great little rant (PR industry: Still grasping for a clue) about how to do a proper press release in the shareable world of Web 2.0:

Via Roughly Drafted Magazine:

Isn't that sign combining the Olympics and the iconic image of Tiananmen Square just perfect in it's simplicity and power?