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For Christmas I was given a bottle of Sheaffer Scrip black ink for my Lamy fountain pen. I hadn’t given it a try until last week, but now that I have I might not go back to my old stuff!

This black ink is very nice and flows out just the right amount to not bleed on regular everyday paper. I’m not worried about it coming through on the other side either. It’s also thin enough to give texture to your lettering from top to bottom.

Here’s an example of what I mean: you get the beautifully textured, bottom heavy lettering from this ink without bleed. And this is only engineering scratch pad. I found that both my Lamy green and Faber-Castell blue inks came out too heavily to be used just anywhere. I bet you the nib and pen have affect the final product too, but so far this is the combination for this pen.

(You can view a few more examples in my flickr group here)

Last night Juno awards were given out to a handful of great canadian artists. Several of my favourite canadian groups were recognized at this year’s Gala dinner including:

Billy Talent for Rock Album of the Year. I love how one of my favourite CBC radio personalities, Jian Gomeshi, presented the award. Billy beat out Nickelback, Tragically Hip, Alexisonfire and Three Days Grace for the award, which I find quite impressive. They also still have a chance to win Single of the Year, Album of the Year and Group of the Year in tonight’s televised awards show. Way to go guys!

Also of note, K’naan (whom I’ve had the pleasure of being a performer with at a festival) won Artist of the Year, Metric received Alternative Album of the Year, and Deadmau5 got Dance Recording of the Year.

There are also a few lesser known artists on the short list worth checking out too. Andrea Lindsay is the girl who fell in love with french while taking a trip to Paris came home and changed her university major from classical singing to french studies. Soon after finishing her studies in Guelph she moved to Montréal and has since started a successful music career. Her newest album Les Sentinelles Dorment won Francophone Album of the Year. It’s an easy listen even coming from a foney phrancofone!  (Ooops :P)

Also the two roots music winners (solo and group), Amelia Curran and The Good Lovelies, are a few of women who know a thing or two about folk/roots music. You’ll find Hunter, Hunter and The Good Lovelies’s self titled album to be refreshing breath of fresh air. 

Tune in tonight and tell me what you think of the final awards being unveiled!

Looks to me like the BlackBerry is looking to shed its only-for-work and not-for-fun image and is finally useable for fun too! :P

Over the past week RIM’s official Twitter app has been releases on the BB store for free (http://www.blackberry.com/twitter) aswell as the new Tumblr app (http://tumblr.com/xha8j60va). Now you can get off those shoddy third party Twitter apps that don’t know geotagging from hashtagging and get productive with your fun!

I mean you can’t do media like an iPhone, so might aswell do what you do well and start typing words in a blog/microblog on that huge mini-keyboard of yours!