One Canuck's Radio Weblog

  Thursday, 30 October 2003

.< 11:56:49 PM >
Three big record shops pull Stones albums...

< 11:38:30 PM >

The Senate votes 55-43 against measures aimed at curbing greenhouse gas emissions. [BBC News | World | UK Edition]

< 11:37:50 PM >

Nellie Connally, the last living person who was in the car that carried President John F. Kennedy in a motorcade through Dallas, tells her story in a new memoir. [New York Times: NYT HomePage]

< 5:08:19 PM >

Early exit for Chrétien?
Prime Minister Jean Chrétien has indicated he may be ready to step down before his scheduled departure in February. F U L L S T O R Y
[CBC News]

< 4:05:52 PM >

Explosions today set a freight train on fire and killed a U.S. soldier in a military convoy. Another blast injured two soldiers. [New York Times: NYT HomePage]

< 4:03:39 PM >

A 1,200-year-old Guatemalan altar is retrieved from looters by archaeologists, village elders and police. [BBC News | World | UK Edition]

< 4:02:49 PM >

The United Nations orders a temporary withdrawal from Baghdad of its staff for consultations on security. [BBC News | World | UK Edition]

< 4:01:18 PM >

Capitol police say Cannon Office Building incident over, and gun was plastic revolver. [New York Times: NYT HomePage] 'U.S. Capitol Police Chief Terence Gainer told reporters the incident resulted from ``two staff members bringing in Halloween costumes....I don't think they had any ill intent,'' he said.'

< 1:17:47 PM >

[GAM-Technology] 'In 2002, people around the globe created enough new information to fill 500,000 U.S. Libraries of Congress, according to a study by faculty and students at the University of California at Berkeley.'

< 12:56:41 PM >

[GAM-Arts] 'The hottest "must have" among celebrities this season isn't a high-end cellphone, rare handbag or unusual breed of dog: It is membership on a blacklist of entertainers considered by the National Rifle Association to be "antigun."'

Right on! Sign me up.

< 12:54:03 PM >

[GAM-National] 'Canada's quick fall can be traced mainly to "a perceived decline in the quality of public institutions," the WEF said.'

< 12:52:38 PM >

[GAM-National]

Drugs are so severely overpriced in the US that many people are ordering from Canada. The drug companies are not happy about this.

< 12:51:30 PM >

[GAM-National] 'It was smoke and mirrors after all. The voters of Ontario were hoodwinked into thinking that the Progressive Conservatives ran a good shop.

The disclosure yesterday that Ontario is running a $5.6-billion budget deficit is devastating for the Tories and their leader, Ernie Eves. It turns out that not only were they not keeping the books balanced, they were barely lifting a finger to do anything about it.'

< 12:51:00 PM >

[GAM-National]

$5.6 Deficit

< 1:11:53 AM >

The antitrust aftermath continues as the software giant settles six more class-action lawsuits, this time agreeing to pony up $200 million to consumers who bought its software products. [Wired News]

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< 1:06:05 AM >

A review of Pogue's amazing list of Panther tips.

< 12:52:28 AM >

Dynamic speakers such as Dr. Srinidhi Varadarajan and Andy Ihnatko were big hits with the sophisticated Mac audience at the conference. This is a show by Mac geeks for Mac geeks. [Meerkat: An Open Wire Service: MacDevCenter.com]

Wow. The O'Reilly OS X Conference seems to have attracted a who's who of Mac doom. Sure would be fun to make it to one of these some time.

< 12:45:05 AM >

Have you written a reply to a Mail.app email some days ago, and can't remember exactly what you wrote? Don't go searching your sent folder! Just click the little circular arrow in front of the message, and your reply gets ope... [macosxhints]

< 12:43:03 AM >

The Keyboard & Mouse Preference panel now has a "Shortcuts" tab, through which the user has control of many of the system keyboard shortcuts. Not so obvious is that you are now able to assign keyboard shortcuts for specific a... [macosxhints]

< 12:42:46 AM >

Here's a helpful feature I recently stumbled across for the 10.3 version of Address Book. [macosxhints]

< 12:28:43 AM >

Longer Arctic summers are causing sea ice to melt, threatening the habitat of polar bears, say scientists. [BBC News | World | UK Edition]

< 12:26:41 AM >

New vehicles ordered to modernize army
The Defence Department will spend more than $500 million on 66 combat vehicles as part of a plan to modernize the army, Defence Minister John McCallum said on Wednesday. F U L L S T O R Y
[CBC News]

< 12:25:26 AM >

Comment, Jonathan Steele: In northern Afghanistan, the US backs all sides in a continuing civil war. [Guardian Unlimited]