One Canuck's Radio Weblog

  Monday, 8 December 2003

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Search in Toronto school rubble

At least one person is killed in the Canadian city after part of a theatre collapses onto a school. [BBC News | World | UK Edition]

Freaky to find out about this on the subway on the way from work via the BBC's site newsfeed! Hard to imagine this sort of thing happening in Canada.

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PDF2Office converts PDF documents into fully-editable files in Microsoft Word, RTF, AppleWorks, HTML and other formats, re-creating the original layout of the document. [MacInTouch]

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more tips on digitizing 8mm film and removing flicker [MacInTouch]

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Rolling Stone magazine is one of the latest periodicals to cozy up to Apple CEO Steve Jobs. An article dated Dec. 3 has Jobs sharing his insights about the music industry. [MacCentral]

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Here's one I stumbled on by accident: [snip] Bonus: Each field [To, subject, message] is multiple-undo-abled. [macosxhints]

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I don't know if this stating the obvious, but with the new Schedule feature in the Panther Energy Saver System Preferences panle, you can now set your machine to automatically turn itself on and off at any given hour. This is... [macosxhints]

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“For music-loving travelers, a good MP3 player has become an essential, gotta-have-it appliance,” writes John Flinn for the San Francisco Chronicle. “And while other makers are trying furiously to catch up, nothing on the market at the moment matches the ease of use, storage size and all-around coolness of Apple’s iPod.” [Dec 8] [Apple Hot News]

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Chantal Hbert has a lot to say here but sums it up here: a backlash against the Jean Charest government is more likely to bring the PQ back to power than a surge in nationalist fervour. I wonder if Bernard Landry is listening. [montreal city weblog]

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[CNET News.com] 'The technology allows portable devices within 20 centimeters of each other to wirelessly transfer data at speeds up to 424 kilobits per second, using the 13.56MHz radio spectrum.'

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Want some DRM with your cavity? [The Register]

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A new European program is mounting a fight against noise pollution. The first step is to map noise levels in cities in 25 nations, followed by plans to dampen the din and quiet public grumbling about the non-stop rumble. [Wired News]

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A powerful nonprofit group and the United States government are expected to come under heavy fire at an Internet conference in Geneva this week. [New York Times: Technology]

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OneDisc Technologies of Dallas is in talks with major and independent labels to begin making a combination single-disc product that plays DVD video on one side and CD audio on the other. [New York Times: Technology]

What's on Side 2? Flashback to the days of the LP.

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There is another example of a form of cyber-graffiti known as "Google bombing." [New York Times: Technology] 'Last week, it looked to some users of the Google search that the site had started to editorialize.

Anyone searching on Google for the phrase "miserable failure" was sent to the official White House biography of President Bush.'

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Residents of an Afghanistan town wondered how an attack aimed at a Taliban suspect could have killed nine children. [New York Times: NYT HomePage]

Kids playing marbles mistaken for a terrorist. US American military intelligence.

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Iraq: Rory McCarthy in Abu Flus, where lack of taxes and tariffs means business, legal and illegal, is booming. [Guardian Unlimited] 'For years under Saddam Hussein's regime the large concrete docks at Abu Flus - the name means "father of money" - were desolate and used only for the occasional oil export.

Today few scenes in postwar Iraq capture so powerfully the exuberance and the lawlessness that has accompanied America's invasion and its promises of free trade and open markets.'

Democracy, US American style.

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Storm tears across Atlantic Canada
A snowstorm pounded Atlantic Canada Sunday, toppling power lines, grounding planes and turning some roads into ice rinks. F U L L S T O R Y
[CBC News]

Not one flake here in TO. How come they get all the fun down home?

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Over lunch today I was reminded of the day I parked in the Premier's parking spot by mistake.

About eight years ago, I was delivering some computers to the Legislative Assembly, and I pulled right up to back driveway to unload. I was inside for no more than half an hour, and when I came out there was a carefully written note under my windshield wiper:

You are Parked in the Premiers Parking Spot

It was signed simply "Commissionaire."

That was it.

That note, in its own small way, was responsible for keeping us on Prince Edward Island. I saved the note, and it's sitting beside me at the computer as I write this. [Reinvented News]

How things get done down east.

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An Internet maverick plans to take a marijuana distribution company public on the Canadian and Nasdaq stock exchanges. A few things, including the law, stand in his way for now. By Charles Mandel. [Wired News]