One Canuck's Radio Weblog

  Saturday, 6 March 2004

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Yukon Gold!! The score was 2-1...

Yukon Gold!!
The score was 2-1 against NWT. I'm off to arrange a celebration party for the soccer parents. [Janet's Radio Weblog]

Wow!

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Apple's stock price has rallied to its highest price in two years, on dramatically higher volume than usual. The stock closed at 25.16 on Thursday, up 5 percent for the day and the highest it had closed at since May of 2002. [MacCentral]

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USA Today reports that Apple's new iPod mini is "a smash hit." Retailers are having trouble keeping the devices in stock, according to the report. When Apple announced the devices were shipping in February, the company said they already had 100,000 iPods on pre-order. [MacCentral]

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Roberto Amorim has the results of a public listening test of several AAC 128Kbps encoding systems. [MacInTouch]

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Kent Nagano to take over Montreal Symphony Orchestra announces replacement for Charles Dutoit [Gramophone - News]

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The Lebrecht Weekly - Latest Web Article Through music, in other words, we become society says Norman Lebrecht

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La Scena Musicale March 2004 Issue
Download the PDF version (10Meg)[LaScena-Features]

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Mexicans cooks, careful not to waste anything, fashion day-old tortillas into a simple but flavorful dish known as chilaquiles (pronounced chee-lah-KEY-lehs). Typically served at breakfast or brunch, the dish is widely considered comfort food by those who know its homey and satisfying taste. [Boston Globe -- Living / Arts News]

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Opening Mexico: The Making of a Democracy, By Julia Preston and Samuel Dillon, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 594 pp., illustrated, $30 [Boston Globe -- Living / Arts News]

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[GAM-National]

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Mexico's leader is to hold talks at President Bush's Texas ranch to discuss the key immigration issue. [BBC News | World | UK Edition]

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Archaeologists unearth a burial site with intact adult and child mummies dating back to the 15th Century. [BBC News | World | UK Edition]

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Martha Stewart found guilty on all charges; vows to appeal
Jurors found domestic diva Martha Stewart guilty on Friday on all four counts in her stock trading case, but she quickly vowed to appeal the conviction. F U L L S T O R Y
[CBC News]

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Hans Blix criticises Tony Blair's defence of the invasion of Iraq. [Guardian Unlimited]

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Slate joins the parade with a new RSS feed. They also have an OPML reading list. Jonathan Epstein wrote an RSS tutorial for Slate readers. [Scripting News]

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What books have you read that deeply influenced your way of living, thinking, or viewpoints about the world around you? My own list follows. [Kuro5hin.org]

< 11:02:39 AM >

Yet another Song Name parsing script. If you are a iPod-totin' Classical listener who has jammed every bit of track info into Song Name, this is for you. [Doug's AppleScripts for iTunes]