One Canuck's Radio Weblog

  Friday, 11 November 2005

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Mac takes bite out of Windows
Hardly a week goes by that I don't hear from a friend or colleague with a monumental Windows problem.

I tell them I'm glad to help, on one condition: Next time they buy a computer, they agree to consider a Macintosh. A year ago, after a particularly trying week of spyware, adware, viral attacks, lock-ups and reboots, I changed my primary computer to a Mac.

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Click Here! to download the CBC
I've always been a fan of the CBC Archives web site. Well-written, well-designed, impeccably researched, thoughtfully curated, technologically nearperfect, and truly bilingual (not just translated) it's easy to spend hours there.

But as much as there is to see, I wish I could see the rest of it.

You wouldn't believe the stuff we have down there in the basement - thousands and thousands of hours of radio and TV, some of it on thick, vinyl platters, from the days when recording a radio show meant pressing a record in-house. Even the most passionate CBC-hater will have to admit, after an hour of looking, that what we have amounts to 75 years of Canada's social, political, and cultural history.

The irony, of course, is that the people it was provided for (and who paid for it) can't see or listen to it.

I said before that I think these archives - every second of them - should be available for free, online . . .
[Via The Tea Makers]

Another fine rant. Some cool links to the archives as well.

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