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The Americans have won their last eight games against the Canadians. The gold medal game is Thursday (7 p.m., ET, CBC). Argh. I'll be on the train to Montreal. Perhaps I'll arrive to see catch the end of the game. .< 11:54:11 PM  >CBC Sports Online : 2002 Winter Olympics, Salt Lake City, Utah : newsAs expected Canada's women's hockey team has earned a spot in the gold-medal game. What wasn't expected was how tough it was going to be to get there. Trailing after two periods, the Canadians exploded for five unanswered third-period goals to rally for a 7-3 victory over a game Finnish squad in first of two women's hockey semifinals on Tuesday. At least we can count on the women to get to the gold medal game. Go Canucks! .< 11:29:06 PM >Drunk Russian orchestra thrown off plane in US. Online.ie News Feb 19 2002 8:52PM ET [Moreover - Arts and culture news] They were probably serving Absolute and the Russians were having none of that! .< 10:42:42 PM >Daimnation!: "Catriona Le May Doan porn (in yer dreams, pal)" Too funny. I found lots of referers to my Canuck site as well. Many people are out there scouring the net for pictures of our favourite goddess and who the heck can blame them. .< 10:21:13 PM >Weblog Entry - 02/14/2002: "O Canada!": "Have you ever met a Canadian you didn't like?" Well blow me over. I think I'm getting this stuff figured out. I've had a manila site for years and just now have I managed to find the referers page. Actually I think I've seen it before but it wasn't until tonight that I realized how handy it could be. I saw a link from Glenn F's page and wondered what the heck that was about. Omigosh. .< 9:00:03 PM >One of the cool things about OS X is that you rarely have to reboot. Unfortunately this can lead to strange problems popping up elsewhere. I use a laptop and run all over the place with it, using various network connections. I just noticed that my machine was bloody slow and was trying to figure out what it was. I started to quit ie when it warned me that there was a download in progress. I saw that a download that I had interrupted almost 24 hours ago at home on my dialup connection was still trying to download. Cancelling the download brought the machine back to life.
If I were rebooting daily I would have been alerted to the problem earlier. Oh well, no accounting for goofiness in programmes that run on OS X. Time to fire up software update. .< 8:44:40 PM >Free Ruler for Mac OS X: "Free Ruler is a free screen ruler for Mac OS X. " .< 8:44:31 PM >Mac OS X Hints - Speeding up Photoshop in Classic: "it's the Mac OS X transparaency, when ever there is ANY quartz drawing on top of classic, things slow to a crawl. " So keep your classic apps on top and beware the Dock. Not as big a problem for me as I have the dock set to autohide. .< 8:35:25 PM >Mac OS X Hints - Working with words during Finder renames: "Now press and hold "alt" when erasing (what would have been) a letter in the name. The Finder automagically deletes one word at a time. " And you can use the arrow keys to move words around, according to this tip. Far out. .< 1:59:23 PM >MSNBC: Supreme Court enters copyright case. The Supreme Court agreed Tuesday to intervene in a fight over copyrights, deciding whether Congress has sided too heavily with writers and other inventors. The outcome will determine when hundreds of thousands of books, songs and movies will be freely available on the Internet or in digital libraries. [Tomalak's Realm] .< 12:21:30 PM >Pentagon steps up propaganda efforts. Media: The Pentagon is planning a PR campaign to get the world behind the next stage of its 'war on terror'. [Guardian Unlimited] Open wide! It's the Axis of Stupidity. .< 12:15:46 PM >Desk Lamp iMacs Start Shipping. CanadaComputes.com Feb 19 2002 2:13AM ET [Moreover - moreover...] Saw my first one this morning. Sure is cute. I walked into the store, moved the screen this way and that, put both hands on the base, admired it, noted the newish mouse and keyboard, then switched to iTunes (which was playing in the background), turned on the full screen display and walked out. As I looked back three people who had been nearby were gawking at the screen with that 'what the . . .?!' look on their faces. .< 12:10:50 PM >The Register: "Manufacturers have agreed a standard for the next generation of DVDs, which will be capable of holding more than six times as much information as existing discs. " Standards are great. That's why there are so many of them. .< 12:04:02 PM >Mac OS X Tip of the Day: Dock Tricks Command-Tab cycles through running apps. Keep the command key help down and press tab to highlight each app in turn. When you lift off the command key, that app will activate. There's a couple of other cool things too. When an app is highlighted, you can press 'h' to hide that app and 'q' to quit the app. Try it - you'll like it. [Ken Bereskin's Radio Weblog] Didn't know about those last two. .< 1:01:06 AM >Thestar.com/Pot industry in Canada 'staggering', police say: "Alan Young, a law professor at the University of Toronto, said many European countries have realized it makes more sense to tolerate drug use and concentrate on stopping people from starting. And even Fantino acknowledged that the possession of small quantities of marijuana ought to be decriminalized, making it akin to a ticketing offence that wouldn't result in a criminal record. "We want to find a way of creating an offence that wouldn't be a criminal offence," he said. "We're not looking at legalizing it; I'm totally and completely opposed to legalizing it."
But the traditional law-enforcement model of using criminal sanctions as a deterrent simply doesn't work, and can even be an incentive to adventurous, risk-taking teens, Riley told the committee." |
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