When I was a young boy, we made regular trips to B.C.'s Okanagan Valley where my great-uncle and aunt lived.

At a certain age, no trip would be complete without a trip into Kelowna to see Ogopogo, the friendly mythical serpent of Lake Okanagan.

Through the miracle of the Web, someone saw my comments about Ogopogo at Three Squirrels in a Pressure Cooker.

Cheryl was kind enough to send along some of her family photos which shows to me that the Ogopogo of my youth is not the Ogopogo of today. Thanks, Cheryl!

He's an NYT reporter. She's an NYT videographer. They're both in Iraq.

From the NYT:

The top editor of The Los Angeles Times has been forced out for resisting newsroom budget cuts, executives at the paper say, marking the fourth time in less than three years that the highest-ranking editor or the publisher has left for that reason.

The Associated Press has prepared an advance obituary for Britney Spears -- you know, in case a piano falls from the sky and squashes her dead.

Given the propensity for a certain proportion of today's young stars to live hard, should news organizations be prepared for their possible demise?