One Canuck's Radio Weblog

  Thursday, 19 February 2004

.< 11:55:40 PM >
The Globe and Mail-Brutal blizzard continues in Nova Scotia and PEI
[base "]I've lived here all my life and I've never seen this kind of thing,[per thou] said Ian MacFarlane as he and his wife shovelled waist-deep snow from their suburban driveway.

A good article ont he storm and here's a great photo.

< 6:16:05 PM >

US police arrest a Canadian woman after her son sees on the internet that he may have been abducted as a child. [BBC News | World | UK Edition]

< 6:14:43 PM >

Winter storm slams the Maritimes
Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island declared a state of emergency on Thursday as one of the worst storms of the season slammed the Maritimes. F U L L S T O R Y
[CBC News]

< 6:11:54 PM >

There is a mighty storm happening around us. This isn't some sort of minor-league "a little snow" kind of storm: it's a "we can't open our front door" storm. No snow plows. No police. Tried to get to work, but turned back after about 15 feet. So far, though, we have power. Will hunker down and watch the SponsorGate hearings on Newsworld. [Reinvented News]

They have all the fun down east!

< 6:10:31 PM >

[GAM-National] Duh.

< 6:09:16 PM >

Montreal asks Quebec for more immigrants to help build the city's economy. [montreal city weblog]

< 6:07:31 PM >

< 6:06:37 PM >

Niki Goldschmidt, Canadian musical pioneer, has died Czech-born conductor, singer, teacher and administrator helped launch many a career
[Gramophone - News]

< 6:04:02 PM >

The AES Convention will confirm its position as a major platform for the European professional audio business at its upcoming 116th Convention, to be held in Berlin between May 8-11 of 2004. The Convention will feature an extensive program, and its workshop coverage will range from the basics of professional audio to the results of the latest research, appealling to a large audience.
[ProSound News]

< 5:58:29 PM >

X-ray observatories capture act of 'celestial gluttony' that astronomers say proves a long-standing theory that black holes can pull in cosmic bodies, stretch them to the breaking point and then consume them. [Wired News]

< 5:54:43 PM >

News.Com: "Manufacturers plan to start selling notebooks with integrated VoIP this year and plan later to offer notebooks with built-in cell phone capabilities." [Scripting News]

< 5:48:06 PM >

iMovie is dog-slow in starting up -- especially after a system restart. To shave five or more seconds from the startup time, Control-click on iMovie's icon and choose Show Package Contents. In the new window, drill down to Co... [macosxhints]

< 5:42:34 PM >

Storage peripheral maker EZQuest has introduced a new of FireWire 800-equipped Cobra+ Pro Audio hard drives that it says are optimized for use with digital audio applications. The drives feature 7200RPM mechanisms and 8MB buffers, and are available in 120, 200 and 250GB capacities. [MacCentral]

< 5:41:51 PM >

When the computer cannot start up normally, you may need to use a disk repair utility. Mac OS X includes two utilities for this, Disk Utility and fsck. [Apple Computer Knowledge Base Changes for 2004-01-30]

< 3:29:13 PM >

Officially, Palm is now relying on third-parties to provide Mac syncing solutions... Don't worry, that's great news ! Wanna know why ? Well, read on ! [Meerkat: An Open Wire Service: O'Reilly Network Weblogs: Mac]