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Here is a list of 13 things from 2008 that I didn’t write about.

1. Cancer and loneliness
At the end of 2007 my wife Tanja has been diagnosed with breast cancer. During 2008 she had two surgeries, the chemo therapy and the radio therapy. Thanks God, the latest results are now negative and she is doing well. To say that the past year was difficult — would be an understatement. Despite all of that, she was coping very well, just missing her friends and their support: they all are thousands of kilometers away (mainly in Ontario), and many times we were experiencing a bitter loneliness here in the middle of the Prairies. Nevertheless, her courage and determination to win was really admirable!
[I was reluctant to write about this, maybe because of coming from a different culture where, traditionally, you don't talk too much about personal difficulties or, maybe, because I just wasn't able to find the right words for it -- but then I discovered, almost by accident, that for example, my compatriot, the famous copywriter Michel Fortin has been through the same hardship together with his wife. Knowing that others are in a similar situation doesn't realy make it easier... but seeing how proudly one can praise a wife that battles with the cancer I felt that I have to do it.]

2. Year end in Cuba
To celebrate the finally good news about Tanja being free of cancer — we spent the New Year’s Eve (and a week around it) in Cuba, in Varadero. We booked a luxurious apartment in Paradisus Princesa del Mar and decided to get pampered a little bit… because we deserved it after all we went through during the year.
Cuba, especially our visit to Havana, was an exciting experience. I am still planning to write about it. It was one of my obsessions: to see Cuba before Castro dies. I am afraid after that it will be just a US colony… with all the hotel and fast food chains that are not there now.

3. Farewell from the WP forum

As I have announced in my old (terminated) blog the other day: I moved all the posts from the “Playing with WordPress” to this new location, and also merged into it posts from a quite neglected blog of mine, called “My Prairie Gazette”. If you were reading either of those …

I started a new blog with the title WordPress 101 - The Blog and it will document, hopefully, two processes: writing a WP101-type book for absolute beginners and building a blog from scratch.

I plan to post daily on the WP101 blog about the progress of the book, and …

I went to the Time magazine’s website (time.com) and I discovered: I am the Person of the Year 2006!
Because I control the Information Age.
Why?

Year 2006

Because I blog: I write about our life, our city, out politics, our weirdness.
Because I read other blogs …

Since the war in Lebanon the issue of double citizenship became a hot political topic. Simple minded citizens are able to raise only one kind of question: are you loyal to this country or to your “other” country?
I wish it was that simple.

You see, I was born in a country …