The 1999 NHL Entry Draft was held on June 26th at the FleetCenter in Boston, Massachusetts. According to Sports Illustrated and other sports news agencies, at the time the 1999 draft was considered one of the deepest in talent in years, headed by Patrick Stefan and the Sedin twins. However, the overall productivity and impact in the NHL has proved considerably lower compared to neighboring drafts. Indeed, as of November 2007, perhaps the draft's best player, Detroit's Henrik Zetterberg, was selected in the 7th round. Draft Order

Calgary, Canada (seriously) is quickly becoming a world class city - at least for pirates filming movies and distributing them illegally. Yesterday Pirate Pat was busted and got his butt hauled off in handcuffs for filming Sweeny Todd. (For Sweeny Todd?? You really couldn't wait to see that????)

Patrick Roy, the NHL's winningest goaltender, and Herb Brooks, coach of the "Miracle on Ice" team that won gold at the 1980 Olympics, were inducted Monday into the Hockey Hall of Fame. Original Six forward Dick Duff and Calgary Flames part-owner Harley Hotchkiss also were inducted.

Offered by the University of Calgary - Computer Sciences:CPSC 599.48 Computer Viruses And Malware andCPSC 599.63 Spam And Spyware.There are also some applied network security classes which are essentially hacking classes.Canada's had hacking/malware/spyware courses for a while... when will USA catch up?

The University of Calgary plans to introduce a computer science course on how to create spam and spyware. The purpose of the class is to teach students how to fight these maladies by showing them how they are created.