One Canuck's Radio Weblog

  Thursday, 5 February 2004

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The Globe and Mail - Christian soldier Bush swears by the Lord
Though it wasn't publicized at the time, Prime Minister Paul Martin got a sense of that sanctimony when he met with Mr. Bush in early January in Mexico. Mr. Bush let the Prime Minister know that he believed himself to be on the side of God and tending to God's mission.

The Canadian side, while aware of the President's penchant for religiosity, had been expecting to talk more about softwood lumber than the Ten Commandments. The Canadians didn't expect the morality play. Nor did they expect that, almost in the same breath, Mr. Bush would be filling the air with the f-word and other saucy expletives of the type that would surely leave the Lord perturbed. Nor did they anticipate a pointed attack on French President "Jack Cheerack," as Mr. Bush called him, for his views on the Middle East.

Mr. Martin was somewhat taken aback by what he heard. After the meeting, he was barely out the door before he was asking someone in his entourage what was to be made of all the God stuff.

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ER drops scene over Janet furore

US network bosses cut a scene from ER in the wake of the row surrounding Janet Jackson's Super Bowl stunt. [BBC News | World | UK Edition] 'Hit medical drama ER has dropped a scene showing the breast of an elderly woman following the furore over Janet Jackson's Super Bowl performance'

Duh.

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Police seize at least $2m of goods and cash after smashing a theft ring at Toronto's international airport. [BBC News | World | UK Edition] 'The police force just west of Toronto made their breakthrough in the case by studying the patterns of goods sold over eBay. They painstakingly matched the items to those reported missing on a monthly basis by airport freight companies.

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17 Afghanistan-bound soldiers test positive for drugs
Seventeen soldiers at the Valcartier military base in Quebec have tested positive for illicit drug use, scuttling plans to send them to Afghanistan. F U L L S T O R Y
[CBC News]

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· Agency did not tailor information to build case for war, George Tenet says· Experts 'never said Iraq posed imminent threat to US' [Guardian Unlimited]

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Many users of Apple's .Mac service have come to rely upon Backup, the backup utility made by Apple. Now Apple has posted a point release with some improvements -- version 2.0.1. Apple is also offering .Mac users a free game from developer GameHouse. [MacCentral]

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You can import any .aiff or .wav file that you want into GarageBand, yet you cannot use GarageBand's loop browser to find the file unless you do a specific search by knowing the exact name of the file. Well, that could get v... [macosxhints]

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Apple Computer Inc. and America Online Inc. on Thursday announced a new level of compatibility between the companies' instant messaging applications, iChat AV and AIM 5.5 for the PC. With updates released today PC and Mac users will enjoy the benefit of video conferencing between the two platforms. [MacCentral]

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The Democrats should nominate someone who inspires. A person not a toothpaste. The Democrats are responsible for the tie in 2000. It should shame them into waking up that they couldn't beat a man who can barely complete a sentence, who inspires so little confidence that it took a national disaster for us to begin to see him as a President. [Scripting News]

Excellent. God it's great to know that some US Americans are talking like this in the context of the upcoming election.

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A news aggregator is "software that periodically reads a set of news sources, in one of several XML-based formats, finds the new bits, and displays them in reverse-chronological order on a single page."

UserLand built its first news aggregator, My.UserLand.Com, in 1999. It was the first aggregator built on the now-popular format called RSS, a flavor of XML, which was co-developed by UserLand and Netscape.

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Tony Blair says he was personally unaware at time of war that Iraq did not have ability to fire long-range weapons. [Guardian Unlimited]