September 2002

Self Righteous Europeans

September 22, 2002

Spotted this on a street corner in Florence.  The irony of the message perched above a McDonalds advertisement was too much. It makes me a little angry too. It’s easy for Europeans to be self-righteous about bio-tech and GM foods… their bellies are full.

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Harpers Calls Staffers Traitors

September 22, 2002

Harper comment raises hackles. OTTAWA and HALIFAX — Canadian Alliance Leader Stephen Harper raised the eyebrows of party staffers this week by telling them his office once seemed to be dotted with traitors from other parties, sources have told The Globe and Mail. Can anyone say Stockwell Harper?

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Somebody Should Build That…

September 18, 2002

Neat site: http://www.shouldexist.org/.  Products that should exist. I’m back.  Spent the last 10 days vacationing in Italy, and just digging out.  Blog should return to normal over the next few days.

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When Will the PQ Give Up?

September 8, 2002

Landry sets target for sovereignty at 1,000 days, election for 2003.  This is just disheartening.  Quebeckers have said Non so many times, already.  When will the PQ give up?  

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Blogged Off.

September 8, 2002

I’ll be travelling and unable to blog anything for a couple of weeks.    

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Manley Sticks Ontario With Bill

September 5, 2002

Provinces on the hook for Ottawa’s overpayment. OTTAWA and TORONTO — Finance Minister John Manley said yesterday that he will recover $1.3-billion in overpayments made to Ontario over the past decade and forgive another $3-billion given by mistake to all the provinces.  I read this several times.  Why stick Ontario with the bill if the [...]

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Roll Back the Clock on School Board Reform

September 5, 2002

All summer long we’ve been subjected to the battling between the province and school boards over budgets here in Ontario.  Opinions have been flying back and forth about how to fix the problems, ranging from fixing the funding formula, to charter schools, to just throwing more money at the problem. Here in the outlying areas [...]

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Blocking Pop-Up Ads

September 4, 2002

Want to block ads?  Edit your hosts file, and make all of these hosts point to your local server… the site is http://remember.mine.nu/ (maintained by Andrew Short). His list is 1/2 MB long and frequently updated – http://remember.mine.nu/hosts.   

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WiFi Video

September 4, 2002

RECORD: Local firm ups video standard - Gary Will’s Waterloo Technology weblog published this this morning.   A bunch of ex-PixStream employees who’ve developed an encoder that dramatically increases the amount of video that can be stored or transmitted.  And, in an interesting development elsewhere, News.COM reports that Conexant is now marrying 802.11 with DSL modems. Wi-Fi to [...]

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Jockeying Over Kyoto

September 4, 2002

Lots of back and forth in the news this morning on Chretien’s decision to ratify Kyoto.  Klein prepares for battle over Kyoto. OTTAWA and EDMONTON — Alberta Premier Ralph Klein has declared war on Prime Minister Jean Chretien’s plan to ratify the Kyoto Protocol, but acknowledged yesterday that he faces an uphill battle to stop [...]

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