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The environmentalist POV. .< 6:23:33 PM  >Hazards of the DMCA - Tech News - CNET.com 'There's no doubt that this is free speech. Yes, it's in Norway, but the Internet is pretty seamless about national boundaries. The site is written in English. It's got good data and a point of view. People who want to know more about Scientology and who look to Google won't find it. That's wrong.' .< 5:42:14 PM >U.S. levies duties on Canadian softwood lumber All Canadian softwood lumber heading to the United States faces duties of at least 19 per cent. In some cases, producers will pay up to 35 per cent in tariffs and charges. The new duties will be imposed on May 8. [CBC News] A long running dispute. The Americans claim the Canadians subsidize their industry. The Americans have lost the case twice before in international trade rulings. .< 4:53:28 PM >Radio-Canada wont welcome striking employees back until agreement is set. CNEWS Mar 22 2002 4:39PM ET [Moreover - moreover...] Ugh. We just went through this 'on the English side' in December. No fun at all. Bonne chance. .< 10:47:11 AM >"Atonement" by Ian McEwan. The author of "Amsterdam" explores the devastating consequences of a young girl's lie. [Salon.com] Very much enjoyed Amsterdam (thanks Geoff). Haven't read the new one yet. .< 10:41:16 AM >Long Ascent on Mt. Oscar. On Sunday, Randy Newman will leave his house and head for the Oscars, where he has been nominated both for his score of "Monsters, Inc." and for a song from that movie. By Jamie Diamond. [New York Times: Arts] Lots of funny quotes from a guy who's been nominated 14 times and never won. .< 10:39:34 AM >Patience Pays Off for Nelly Furtado's Team. When Nelly Furtado rushed to the stage at the Grammy ceremonies to accept the award for best female pop singer she said she felt like Cinderella. By Bernard Weinraub. [New York Times: Arts] A small label with deep pockets that believed in the artist and let her and her original (Canuck) team have creative control. .< 2:15:53 AM >Tokyo Braces for Mac Invasion Macworld Tokyo is the biggest Macintosh convention in the world, with almost double the attendees of the U.S. Macworld Expos in San Francisco and New York. I didn't know that! .< 2:04:32 AM >A Cerulean Byte: "I talked to Apple today about its new Bluetooth support (more accurately, shortly upcoming support), and they made it clear that part of their interest in making this technology available is to turn the Mac once more into a technology-done-right showcase. As with 802.11b, FireWire, and USB, Apple was not only the first or one of the firsts, but they were and remain the premier platform on which the technology is used without fuss through hardware abstraction and OS integration." Stuff we Mac folk take for granted. .< 1:49:08 AM >Massive no-fly zone ordered over Kananaskis, Alta., for June G8 summit: "Canadian military officials say the restricted airspace -- which runs from southeastern B.C. to the Calgary city limits -- will be patrolled by CF-18s prepared to shoot down unauthorized aircraft. " Calgary International Airport is within the no-fly zone. But they're not closing it down. I don't think I'd want to be flying into or out of Calgary during the summit. Coincidently I was due to fly out of Calgary on 11 Sept. .< 1:37:28 AM >Ex-Gateway Executive Says Microsoft Bullies PC Makers. A former Gateway executive testified Thursday on behalf of states seeking tough antitrust remedies against Microsoft. By Bloomberg News. [New York Times: Technology] .< 1:36:22 AM >Motorola in Talks to Sell Unit to Nortel. Motorola is in talks with Nortel Networks to combine the two companies' wireless network equipment businesses. By Reuters. [New York Times: Technology] Wow. .< 1:34:21 AM >Create aliases to retain toolbar server icons [Mac OS X Hints] Nice! Passwords are handled by the keychain. .< 12:26:23 AM >Over 1.2 million refugees expected to return to Afghanstan Refugees forced to flee Afghanistan are beginning to return in large numbers, as members of a once-powerful ethnic group accused of persecution are trying to escape for their own safety. [CBC News] I read that description four times. It didn't help. The story is easier to understand. Things are a mess in Afghanistan. .< 12:22:27 AM >MediaGuardian.co.uk | New media | Poetry Society evicted from its website '"We've spent five years building up our award winning website and it's pretty devastating to have the name taken over like this," said Christina Patterson, director of the Poetry Society. "We were getting 300,000 hits a month. It seems remarkable that a company promoting gambling and viagra should use the name of a charity set up to promote poetry." ' Ouch. I've been reading a few stories lately about organizations losing their domain names. .< 12:08:49 AM >Tip o' the day: Static site
If you want to link to a page on one of your static sites you can simply select the page in the database, and then from the Tools->Static Sites menu select 'Copy URL'. |
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