One Canuck's Radio Weblog

  Monday, 25 November 2002

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Bush signs landmark security act. The US Government launches its biggest reorganisation in generations with a new Homeland Security department. [BBC News | WORLD]

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Child poverty down but still too high: report
Canada is finally making progress in reducing child poverty, but there's still a long way to go. F U L L   S T O R Y
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Backend: Formats for Blog Browsers. "I'd like to tell you a story about how I tripped over what may turn out to be a very interesting common feature of weblog software." [Scripting News]

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Is Microsoft Truly 'Trustworthy'?. Microsoft seems to have gotten security religion, but its initiatives to convince users to blindly install every patch could create even more problems. Commentary by Lauren Weinstein. [Wired News]

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ZDNet: Story: Why you should buy an Apple this Christmas'Both the adders and the switchers I've talked to were actually comfortable with Windows but grew tired of fighting with their computers on a regular basis. Many cited mysterious problems that cropped up on their Windows machines and never seemed to get solved because finding answers was such an ordeal.

Others chose Apple because they fell in love with the apps that come free with the machines. iMovie, iDVD, and iPhoto all have their fans, as does iTunes, which works with the iPod for synchronization and playback of an MP3 collection.

Another big group didn't have any one particular reason for choosing a Mac, but summarized it much as I did at the end of my "Month(s) of a Mac" series. These people, like me, found they spent more time creating on a Mac and less time thinking about the computer itself.'

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Dark Days
We're into the time of long nights and short days here in the Yukon. From late November until late January, sunlight is at a premium. As I write this at 10:06 a.m., the sky is just beginning to lighten. The sun won't climb over the tops of the mountains for another 15 or 20 minutes. By 3:30 this afternoon, dusk will set in.

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24-hour channel offering wall-to-wall video clips [Gramophone - News] " 'The manner and style we are adopting is of pop music TV,' said Roger Lewis, managing director of Classic FM."

This should help create a market for videos of classical music.

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By DAVID MACFARLANE
-- If you are a writer or a painter or a playwright or a filmmaker, and you get it into your head that you're going to use a symbol, you had better (a) come up with a good one, and (b) use it wisely. Otherwise, there will be hell to pay.  FULL STORY [The Globe and Mail: Arts]

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Releasing Rock Albums Again and Again. The proliferation of "deluxe editions" of albums raises a question: How many times can labels entice consumers to buy the same album? By Chris Nelson. [New York Times: Arts] 'The cost for creating reissues is a fraction of making a new album, because the recordings were paid for long ago and ad campaigns are typically modest.'

Personally, I'm buying very few discs until surround hi res versions come out.

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Apparently the Canuck contestant led the charge to get out of there. She's home now and disqualified at the moment. That's our girl!

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My goodness. The New York Times linked to this? After the moron incident?! If this keeps up we Canucks are gonna start feeling smug . . . and that would be most un-Canadian..