One Canuck's Radio Weblog

  Monday, 17 November 2003

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Harper to Martin: delay election call...

Harper to Martin: delay election call
Canadian Alliance Leader Stephen Harper has advised Liberal Leader Paul Martin to delay an expected spring election call, saying Canadians go to the polls too often. F U L L S T O R Y
[CBC News]

Uh, yeah, right. What he means is the 'unite the right' folks are no where near having their poop together.

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< 7:15:27 PM >

Less than a year after opening its doors, Vespa Soho is already the top stand-alone Vespa motorscooter boutique in America. The thriving business runs entirely, and profitably, on Macs. [Nov 7] [Apple Hot News]

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TheGlobe.com President Ed Cespedes explains the reincarnation of his company as a VoIP provider and weighs in on Wi-Fi. [CNET News.com] 'VoIP will 100 percent displace cellular. You can surf the Net now on your cell phone, but the throughput on even 3G phones is a joke. It's so slow and so expensive. A Wi-Fi-enabled device surfs at 100 times the speed virtually for free. If Wi-Fi can get ready for voice, as soon as next year, you'll see Wi-Fi-connected phones, and all these Wi-Fi carriers will have roaming agreements. The next thing you know, bye-bye cellular.' I'm thinking we'll need a few more hotspots before that happens! I like the idea but it looks to me like there's a lot of bluster in this interview.

< 5:29:44 PM >

The software giant confirms plans that it will launch its own music-download store, putting it on the path to direct competition with Apple's iTunes and a growing list of rival digital song stores. [CNET News.com]

You can afford to follow the leader when you have a monopoly . . . and no shame.

< 5:28:02 PM >

Transforming the land of samba and Carnival into a tech-savvy nation may mean shunning costly Windows products. Brazil's chief technology officer wants everyone from schoolchildren to government bureaucrats to use open-source software. [Wired News]

< 5:27:04 PM >

Pearl Jam sold almost 4,800 CD's in two days through its Web site, pearljam.com. [New York Times: Technology] 'The single will be available for purchase tomorrow as a download through Apple Computer's iTunes.'

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RealNetworks disproved claims by Microsoft that its Windows operating system depended on the inclusion of its Media Player. [New York Times: Technology]

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Nick Denton, the head of Gawker Media, has built a bustling business publishing people's personal Web logs, or blogs. [New York Times: Technology] "Tying history's easiest, cheapest publishing tool to history's best distribution network, the Internet, would have tremendous impact on media."

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Apple CEO Steve Jobs ranks ninth on a list of the top 25 company executives as ranked by the staff of CRN, a site that "offers vital information for VARs [value added resellers] and technology innovators." Calling him "the king of digital cool," CRN said Jobs has "managed to raise Apple's mindshare, if not its market share, though his quest to stay at the forefront of innovation in the PC and consumer arenas." [MacCentral]

< 3:53:29 PM >

From time to time, I need to open a new Finder window while keeping the current window open, and while I could press Command-N, I may not want to start at the designated Finder window (set in Finder preferences).

I fiddled w... [macosxhints]

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The new Mail.app in Panther (also in 10.3.1) makes attachments "Read Only" when dragging from Mail onto the desktop. If you use the "Save All" button in the header instead, the privileges are set correctly... [macosxhints]

< 2:09:59 PM >

Toronto Star: "It was a gift from the propaganda gods. Just two problems: It didn't happen that way, and the designated hero, Pte Jessica Lynch, refuses to say it did." [Scripting News]

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Ottawa dispatch: Anne McIlroy questions Canada's role in the deportation and torture of Syrian-born Maher Arar. [Guardian Unlimited]

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Thousands of people queue to pay their respects to the 19 Italians killed in last week's Iraq bomb attack. [BBC News | World | UK Edition]

Thanks dubbya

< 12:14:02 PM >

A large object - 570 km across - has been found in the dark outer reaches of the Solar System. [BBC News | World | UK Edition]

< 12:10:08 PM >

Black out as CEO of Hollinger
Amid revelations of $32 million US in secret payments and inaccurate financial statements, media baron Conrad Black is stepping down as CEO of the Hollinger newspaper conglomerate. F U L L S T O R Y
[CBC News]

Pompous ass

< 12:43:01 AM >

[GAM-National] 'Yesterday, Martin aides found in their daily briefing books a crib sheet containing two black-and-white photocopied pictures - one of the late, former California congressman Sonny Bono (of Sonny and Cher fame) and the other of the Irish rock star. Underneath their pictures was a phonetically correct pronunciation of their names - B-OH-NO for Sonny Bono and B-AW-NO for Bono. This was so Martin staggers - spokesman Scott Reid is said to have the most difficulty - wouldn't cause international embarrassment.'

< 12:41:49 AM >

Immigration Minister Denis Coderre announced an unprecedented program this week that would grant these undocumented construction workers legal status -- although he was careful to note that this is not a blanket amnesty for all illegal immigrants. [GAM-National]

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< 12:37:31 AM >

Former minister Stephen Byers launches bid to destabilise the president's re-election campaign. [Guardian Unlimited]

< 12:36:50 AM >

Flu hits Canada early, hard
An influenza outbreak first detected in western Canada a few weeks ago has made its way to Ontario, leaving hundreds ill and thousands rushing to get immunized. F U L L S T O R Y
[CBC News]

< 12:27:47 AM >

Microsoft has given its strongest signal yet that it hopes to reach a settlement of the European Union's long-running antitrust case. [New York Times: Technology]

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It's official: Virginia Tech's Mac supercomputer is the world's third-fastest. Meanwhile, IBM is building a monster machine that will blow it -- and all other supercomputers -- out of the water. [Wired News]

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The chipmaker earmarks $36 million for research into improving supercomputers made from off-the-shelf parts as it continues to expand its reach in the very high end of the computer market. [CNET News.com]

Playing catchup?

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'Word on Fleet Street is it's an obvious payoff to the Sun's owner, Rupert Murdoch, the conservative publisher behind many Bush-friendly news outlets such as Fox News. Officials at the White House acknowledge that it was a reward to the Sun for its unstinting support of the United States regarding the war in Iraq.' [Daypop Top 40]

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"Chasing Bush - Tracking George W. Bush throughout his UK visit" [Daypop Top 40] 'Welcome to Chasing Bush - the very first project of the passive resistance network'

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From the White House to Random House, the plucky ex-POW has been badly used. But even as the right turned on her, she handled her week in the spotlight like a hero. [Salon] 'Lynch's insistence on national television that she felt used by the Pentagon for making a show of her rescue and for telling absurd tales about her alleged heroics was just the latest cut at the White House's shrinking credibility when it comes to the war in Iraq.

Also, her personal Iraq tale about an unprepared group of lost, confused and exhausted soldiers making wrong turn after wrong turn before being boxed into an ambush where 11 soldiers were killed is not exactly the stuff of recruiting brochures.'

'Shrinking' credibility? They've never had any credibility with most of us. Please note the long running Google Box on my Fallout page.