One Canuck's Radio Weblog

  Thursday, 20 November 2003

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3BONE AUDIO NOMINATED FOR TWO SURROUND SOUND MUSIC AWARDS
For the second year in a row, Toronto based DVD-Audio label/production company, 3Bone Audio, is nominated at the Surround Music Awards in Beverly Hills, California, taking place on December 11th.  The album, KAJE, created by Toronto music producer Kevin [base "]KAJE[per thou] Johnson, and mixed in 5.1 by 3Bone Audio, is up for [base "]Most Adventurous Mix[per thou] (awarded to the album that demonstrates incredible use of multi-channel audio) alongside 5.1 re-issues of Pink Floyd[base ']s Dark Side of the Moon, Beck[base ']s Sea Change and others.  KAJE is also nominated for the [base "]Horizon Award[per thou] (celebrating a new artist that is on the cutting edge of surround music) alongside Heavier Things by John Mayer. 

Congratulations to 3Bone who are pushing hard for acceptance of a great new format.

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The blurb is from an email I got. The link is to a page with a bit of information about HDTV. My favourite quote from the page is 'In focus groups conducted by Samsung Canada, CBC[base ']s Hockey Night in Canada was the program that most participants indicated would get them to consider upgrading to HDTV.' Crazy Canucks!

< 9:41:32 PM >

PC World: "Iomega's solution is a drive and high-capacity removable disks. Fastora is hyping a one-drive NAS device, while Nexsan's answer is a two-unit storage array. Iomega and Nexsan both claim their storage products are cheaper than tape alternatives and their message seems to be the same: the tape drive's days are numbered." [lawrence's notebook]

We're conditioned to the idea that it's ok to leave a tape sitting on a shelf, but a drive?! Once you can get your head around that though you have to say 'bring it on!'

< 8:39:30 PM >

Michael Feldman has posted the tutorial from his BloggerCon session on starting a weblog using Manila.

Tip: You can find other howtos/tips in the community section of the Frontier directory. [UserLand Product News]

< 1:47:05 AM >

Canada supplied information used against Arar, says solicitor general

Canada's solicitor general acknowledged for the first time Wednesday

that U.S. officials used Canadian-supplied information when they

deported Maher Arar to Syria.

F U L L S T O R Y
[CBC News]

We give the US info about our citizens, they send them off to be tortured.

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Jonathan Freedland reports on the first full day of the president's state visit. [Guardian Unlimited] 'The Queen tried to appeal to her guest, showing off items of Americana - like Queen Victoria's snap of Buffalo Bill -but it was a strain. At one point the Prez seemed to be staring at the ceiling.'

Having trouble concentrating?

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For its Keynote application, Apple had created an XML syntax, APXL (short for Apple Presentation XML), and made its schema publicly available. That means you can build presentations outside of Keynote using data stored in apps like FileMaker Pro and 4D. David Miller explains, and shows you how to leverage this functionality. [Meerkat: An Open Wire Service: MacDevCenter.com]

Wonderful stuff. I'd love to dig into this.

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In Time magazine, Wilson Rothman writes about the Power Mac G5 with Mac OS X version 10.3 Panther, “Bottom line for the Mac users: it only gets better from here on in. Bottom line for Windows people: getting a Mac doesn’t mean switching. It just means having a little more fun.” [Nov 19] [Apple Hot News]

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Scientific American magazine is the latest publication to recognize Apple's accomplishments with its iTunes Music Service. Apple CEO Steve Jobs made the 2003 Scientific American 50. [MacCentral]

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Site contributor Vincent Bockaert has today announced the latest version of his excellent 'The 123 of digital imaging Interactive e-book'. The new e-book appears to be far more than a simple upgrade, the e-book now covers even more software including Adobe Photoshop CS and Photoshop Album 2.0 (as well as keeping content for Photoshop 7 and Album 1.0). [Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)]

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China unveils its next-generation rival of the DVD, the EVD (Enhanced Versatile Disc). China hopes to reduce over-reliance on foreign technology and avoid paying patent royalties. Analysts doubt that the EVD will catch on, however. [Wired News]

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According to a study by the research group InfoTrends worldwide digital camera sales should reach nearly 53 million units sold in 2004. In addition to this digital camera sales are expected to continue to grow and a compound rate of 15% over the following four years reaching an incredible 82 million units sold in 2008. According to InfoTrends the market leaders in 2003 are expected to be Canon, Sony, Olympus, Fujifilm and Kodak with a combined market share of three quarters (75%). [Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)]

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EE Times: "There's division in the ranks of the DVD Forum, whose steering committee will meet in New York next week to vote on a next-generation optical-disk format." [lawrence's notebook]

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Hey the government of Canada has RSS feeds. They're pretty good, not bad at all, but they call their feeds 0.91 but use features only available in 2.0. I'm hesitant to criticize, because after all it's the thought that counts. But my aggregator will ignore the cool 2.0 stuff because it takes the version seriously. Best thing to do is to just change the version number to 2.0 and accept a hearty thanks from your neighbors to the south. And thanks to Lawrence for the pointers (he's Canadian). [Scripting News]

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Gotta play with this some more: GoogleRace.Com. [Scripting News]

Something's terribly wrong. Bush comes 3rd in moron?!