One Canuck's Radio Weblog

  Monday, 18 March 2002

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The Register: Canada mulls blank CDR, MP3 player tax: "But hang on a mo - approx. 100m blank CDs are sold a year, of which 44million a year are used in home-ripping, according to the Canadian Private Copying Collective's own figures, the Globe And Mail notes. So why should the levy be applied on all CDs, the majority of which is used in IT? No, we can't work that one out, either.

And what about the pirates who store stolen movies on CD. Shouldn't the movie industry get a slice of the pie? "

What a mess. The article includes info about a petition against the move and other contact info.

< 7:00:43 PM >

Holy crap. It's free! What a crazy guy that Dave is. I wish I had a bit more time to digest what's going on here. Userland is moving so fast lately that it's hard to keep even three steps behind them. Very impressive.

< 4:32:52 PM >

Yup. If you can afford it you can have it all. Of course if DVD had fulfilled it's initial promise we wouldn't be in this mess and we'd all have inexpensive players which would play any DVD. Sigh.

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"Last week Apple sent out a notice to its dealers that they have modified the expiration of the Suite Deal rebate. Customers who qualify for the rebate during the plan now have 30 days from shipment of their machine to send in the required rebate form and data. Therefore the deadline for returning the rebate application is tied to the actual shipment of their machine and not some fixed date."

Ah. That's better.

< 3:19:16 PM >

Dang. The old curmudgeon is gone.

< 2:07:33 PM >

Washington, DC--At a Senate committee hearing on protecting creative works in the digital age, Hilary B. Rosen, president and CEO of the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), submitted testimony reinforcing the threats of digital piracy to the marketplace. [ProSound News]

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GooSearch X adds a floating window to Mac OS X for performing Google searches. The utility is free from NetsoWork. [GooSearchX.sit] [Macintouch]

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Three of five Tory leadership candidates have smoked pot -- one yet to exhale. CNEWS Mar 18 2002 1:59AM ET [Moreover - moreover...]

Good news. I still won't vote for any of them. (This is in reference to provincial politics in Ontario.)

< 12:58:54 PM >

Ugh. Let's hope this is a post 11 Sept reaction. The poll was done before the release of the census that made it clear we have to encourage immigration. My family were immigrants once, even if they came (via the US) from England in the early 1600's.

< 12:55:19 PM >

Too funny. Nixon would have been in completely over his head with Trudeau.

< 12:32:37 PM >

Our population as a whole would be declining if not for immigrants. So we need more. But most of them go to the main urban centres where population is growing. The entire country gets just under a quarter million a year and half of them come to Toronto.

< 11:33:29 AM >

The Audio Engineering Society UK section will present its 17th two-day Conference, "Audio Delivery: the changing home experience," April 15-16 at Church House, in Westminster, London, to explore the spectrum of new ways in which recorded music and other media is being delivered to the home.

More info at http://www.aes.org/sections/uk/audio_delivery/.

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From Canada, the Greek-born composer has reaped a world of acclaim.

"I found much more breathing room here," said Hatzis, 49, an associate professor of music at the University of Toronto.

"For an artist, I found Canada had a more nurturing attitude for young talent."

Congratulations to Chirstos on his New Pioneer Award.

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< 1:30:55 AM >

"I'm in the same situation: I ordered a new iMac CD-RW and MS Office during MacWorld, and the iMac is no where to be seen. I called the phone number listed on the rebate form, apparently just for rebate info, and the person was quite sympathetic (although this situation had apparently not occurred to him yet). He suggested that I send in the completed rebate form, copy of invoice showing iMac on backorder and the MS Office box top by the deadline (Apr. 30), They will then send me a letter saying that my rebate request was incomplete, please supply the iMac UPC code. This will extend the deadline to fulfill the requirement, hopefully long enough to receive the iMac. Worth a try..."

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< 1:26:49 AM >

Hey, there's a twist. A Mac OS X app being ported to Linux.

< 12:46:57 AM >

[LaScena-Features]

Great to see these names get behind a fine publication.

.< 12:44:11 AM >

E-Scribe New Media: Mailfilter Stuff: "Mailfilter, by Andreas Bauer, is one of the simplest of these tools, but is remarkably effective when set up right. It's essentially a command-line POP client whose only job is to kill spam"

The amount of spam I receive is minimal. But this tool may be of some use.