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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

I am serious. They have the most stupid setup when it comes about chosing in which currency I want to pay… and their stupidity forced me to pay $75.05 instead of $70.00. And when I wanted to use 2Checkout2.com’s contact form to let them know about the case - …

Today’s post will be shorter than it was yesterday. Less time for writing. Need to read. And if I need to read anyway — I installed the “Now Reading” plugin to keep track of the most important readings. Funny that I am saying I need to read, as if it …

The other day I was sitting in our living room with an engineer and a microbiologist and chatting while the wives were preparing a special lunch: cr�pes (also pala?inka in my wife’s tongue and palacsinta in my language).

Since the microbiologist is heavily involved in reserach for alternative energy sources and …

If you have a cancer case in your own family, as we have, then you start reading the health related news with different eyes. You become more sensitive to any negative news and upset with the sacred cow of the Canadian nation: the universal “free” health care. Actually, it is …

From my favourite daytime radio talk show to newspapers and TV stations - everybody tries to make people to remember where they were and what they did on that tragic 9/11 day.

As long as I have this website, for me it will always be very easy to remember. That’s …

Usually, I don’t post about email messages I get. And I get tons of them. However, recently I got an interesting one with a Subject line: Would you have made the same choice? A thought provoking story.

The story itself is a bit melodramatic for my taste (see it below) - …