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Archive for September, 2005

The Alberta Windfall

Posted: Wednesday, September 21st, 2005 @ 11:28 pm in Commentary | No Comments »

Well, here we are again. The difference? Paul Martin surprisingly enough. Alberta, lucky as we are in having a whack of oil under the ground, has a almost obscene surplus this year. And a lot of that cash is going into the infrastructure of the province, as well as $400 cheques to every resident of [...]

Perfect…. They Don’t Suspect a Thing

Posted: Sunday, September 11th, 2005 @ 7:06 pm in Commentary, Personal | No Comments »

A friend of mine forwarded me a bunch of interesting research around global warming and solar activity correlation over the years. Much of it appears to have decent science and legitimate correlation behind it. He then also forwarded me an interesting link to what can best be described as a far right-wing American blog. Let's [...]

Mighty Mouse Enhanced iTunes 5?

Posted: Saturday, September 10th, 2005 @ 8:44 pm in Mac Fun | No Comments »

Mucking about with the Mighty Mouse and the latest release of iTunes while listening to “A Northern Chorus” – cool Canadian artist if you're into a bit more of an ambient rock idea. In doing so, I noticed what I can only describe as “enhanced for Mighty Mouse” behaviour. If iTunes 5 is the active [...]

Well if it’s patent infringement, it’s environmental destruction as well….

Posted: Sunday, September 4th, 2005 @ 6:34 pm in Commentary | No Comments »

Alright, that’s it. According to this story, the state of today has changed such that you can’t refill an ink cartridge (in the US) if it is marked as "single use". Doing so puts you in breach of contract and…. patent law?!?!? Well, let’s assume that the wonderous special interest protecting court system has this [...]