40+ hours of driving each way or about 10,000+ kms both ways
Brampton to Reading,
8.5 hours or 800 kms, QEW to I-90, I-390, US-15, I-76
Reading to Natural Bridge, Yogi Bear's Jellystone Park,
5.2 hours or 510 kms, I-76 to I-81
Natural Bridge to Nashville, Nashville KOA,
7.5 hours or 750 kms, I-81 to I-40
Nashville to Texarkana, Texarkana KOA, thru Memphis,
7.5 hours or 790 kms, I-40 to I-30
Texarkana to Abilene, Abilene KOA, thru Dallas
6 hours or 600 kms, I-30 to I-20
Abilene to Van Horn, Van Horn KOA,
5.2 hours or 530 kms, I-20 to I-10
Van Horn to Tuscon, Voyager Resort,
7 hours or 710 kms, I-10
Tuscon to San Diego, Campland on the Bay, Wedding, Sea World,
x hours or x kms, ???
San Diego to Anaheim, Canyon RV Park, Disneyland Resort,
x hours or x kms, ???
San Diego to Las Vegas, Silvertone Casino & KOA,
5.5 hours or 550 kms, I-15
Las Vegas to Grand Junction, RV Ranch,
8 hours or 820 kms, I-15 to I-70
Grand Junction to Sterling, Yogi Bear's Jellystone Park,
6 hours or 600 kms, I-70 to I-76
Sterling to Omaha, West Omaha KOA,
6.5 hours or 680 kms, I-76 to I-80
Omaha to Portage, Yogi Bear's Jellystone Park,
7.8 hours or 810 kms, I-80
Portage to Brampton, thru Windsor
7.5 hours or 750 kms, I-94 to 401
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on right now at the Toronto International Centre. I'm looking at the Trail-Lite, Class C at the Hitch House near Orillia. The picture on the right is the 21 foot. I think I'd get the 23 foot or maybe the 28. My wife thinks the 21 foot is too small. The 21 is mid-70s. The 23 is mid-80s. The 28 is mid-90s. |
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I found it amazing how many large Class A's were for sale. Class A's that cost $200K and $300K. They are houses on wheels for retired couples looking to travel. Their is obviously still a lot of money in the retiring baby boom generation.
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What do I like about the Trail-Lite? Seat belts for seven people, already have 4 with one on the way. I'd be nice to take along the cousins too! The bunk bed above the cabin is a must. Lot's of bed space is nice too! My plan is to take the RV to Marineland four times per year. Once a year to Disneyland (or similar). To African Lions Safari, Windsor, Bass Lake (near Cobalt) and wherever else. |
Gwen Harris' newsletter for March.
Gwen is from Toronto and teaches at UotT.
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Potty Training: Learning how to step in pee. |
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Let me thank the Linksys team for putting together such a great set of home networking products. Just installed a third computer at home today. It's XP Professional with IIS and SQL Server 2000. |
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Total amount of time spent configuring the network was 5 minutes. That's 2 minutes to find the CD. Ten seconds to run the setup program. Fifty seconds to think about how easy that was. Ten more seconds to run the setup again, something must have been amiss the first time. Fifty seconds to figure out if this really did work. Another minute to scratch...
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Some interesting commentary on a Canadian embarrassment. Just remember, nobody has a monopoly on bad politicians, Canada has its share too. IMCDN. Let me introduce the world to Bob Ray, Mike Harris, Mel Lastman and Shiela Copps to begin with. |
Opencola in the newsThis is a reprint of an article from last week, now on the CNN website. Good stuff! Opencola now needs to follow up on this publicity, rather than stand around hoping the money will fall into their hands. Here's some further publicity from the Demo conference. |
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Great all around publicity for Butterfly.net, IBM and Sony? This is the sort of publicity that everybody needs to think about. From reading about this grid, you might get the impression of rows of blade computers. 724 Solutions and 1X, two of my recent startups have been unable to generate any buzz. I just can't figure this one out. How can you spend thousands and millions of dollars and not generate any publicity. |
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I think we need an email XML and WSDL Schema and an implementation of email using SOAP over HTTPS.
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I just don't get it. Why? Why are heroes prosecuted when they attempt to profit from their heroism? I think the problem is that people can't differentiate between monetizing and bad ethics. I thank Mr. Moose for showing the initiative to profit from his heroism. Take care of your family and create your own generational wealth. You deserve it. You are a hero. |
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Another great idea using XML. also NewsML. |
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I publicly released some new articles on my website.
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The Internet sports gaming market continues to be one of the few high growth areas of the economy. Very frustrating! Three years ago, I helped start an Internet sports gaming company called 1X Inc. The company continues to struggle, even in a high-growth market. Another failure in my books. |
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I think my biggest problem is that I don't surround myself with good people. I've seen so many bad induhviduals at 724 Solutions, 1X and Opencola. I approached upper management at each company about the lack of quality in various executives, but to no avail. I can sit back now and say "I told you so," but that doesn't help me either.
Very frustrating!
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Check This Out from Alec. |
| I moved Bloogle to this new address. Still got some work to do. It's not re-indexing cause the mshtml component on that machine is dated. | |
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I'm shutting this down. It'll reappear at a new URL very soon. It was running on my laptop, which caused my keyboard to heat up. I'm transferring it to a server in my basement. |
yet another RSS tool! source Alec's .LOG
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War begets war begets war. Once the ball starts rolling, it's justification for everybody to jump onto the bangwagon. By the way, that's the kurdistan flag, or so I assume. Fact is, I like new countries. They bring out ethnic pride and highlight new cultures. |
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So Mac is a better Windows than Microsoft? Think about that for a few seconds. Is Pepsi a better Coke than Coca-Cola or are they a better Cola than Coke? Mac is not a better OS than Windows, rather they are a better Windows than Microsoft. Who wins? Microsoft! |
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Let's just fire a few missiles into a refugee camp. An eye for an eye. An old story. We bomb you, you bomb us, we bomb you, etc. If I were president of Israel, I'd move to Canada. If I were anybody in Israel, I'd move to Canada. If I were Palestinian, I'd move to Canada. |
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Cool! I'd love to be there. David's one of my heroes. But... June 9th is my son Brayden's 3rd birthday and my wife is expecting to deliver my third child, second daughter, named Celest on June 10th. Celest is one of the only children that were named three years before they were born. Shortly after my son Brayden was born, we decided that if the next child was a girl, she'd be named Celest. And the doctors agree she's a girl. |
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Wow, Linux is at 6% market share in Asia :( At this rate, they'll knock off Windows before my grandchildren are dead. |
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Nolan for McCauley, Boyes and a 1st rounder. This is the same trade that has been rumoured for a week. I like the trade. Gives Toronto a shot at the cup this year. We gave up little in return. McCauley has lots of potential, but has guarded against another concussion. Boyes is a long-shot prospect. Toronto's 1st rounder is basically an early 2nd rounder. |
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It's great to see a wealthy Canadian owner stepping in. If Melnyk buys the Sens, you know they will continue to exist in Ottawa and that their is no chance of moving closer to Toronto, his home. Whereas, if Paul Allen got his way, they would be in the Seattle area ASAP. |
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That's Melnyk on the right. His company is Biovail. They are at the 407 and Mississauga Rd on the border of Mississauga and Brampton, about a 5 minute drive from my house.
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I was at the game Monday night with my friend Dave McLauchlin. He sourced the tickets. Same guy I went with to the Senators game in Ottawa last month. The recent change of ownership at Maple Leaf Gardens has heightened the misunderstanding of who actually owns the Leafs. The Ontario Teachers Penson Plan Board owned 49% of the team before the change of ownership and 58% afterwards. The Globe and Mail nows owns 15%, TD Capital 14% and Tanenbaum owns 13%. |
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Who'd a thought search would continue to play such a large part on the Web? And worse, who'd a thought pay for placement would be accepted by the masses? |
| Some screenshots of the future of Windows. | desktop screenshot |
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The Red Herring magazine is no more. Founder Tony Perkins talks of an all too familiar story of great expectations gone out of control. This is exactly what happened at 724 Solutions, where success and the influx of IPO cash turned us into a bunch of slack-assed millionaires. When things went south, we just couldn't submit fast enough and one half billion dollars later, nobody cared enough stick around.
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Can you pick the shuttle Columbia's left wheel from its right wheel? |
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The "Dude, Check Me Out" server is dead :(( :((
Experienced my first blue screen of death in quite some years. The computer wouldn't reboot, nor would it re-OS. I assume it's a hardware problem, since I can't even re-OS.
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My Big Brother Microsoft has stepped in the doo-doo again. I'd love to hear this one out. Maybe these guys are just trying to make a buck, maybe not. If anybody buys the article, then please tell me the meat. |
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When I reported the scam to PayPal, PayPal's automated email tells me to be sure that I attach a copy of the offending email. The complaint form does not allow attachments and is limited to 1000 or less characters. PayPal might want to review their service. They are obviously not trying very hard to prevent fraud within their system.
I just got an interesting creative PayPal scam via email. I'll forward it to PayPal. They send you an email looking exactly like other emails from PayPal and tell you that you have to type your email and password to reactivate your account.
I attached the email below. I hope its a scam and not the way PayPal does business. Cause it looks like a scam.
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PayPal is currently performing regular maintenance of our security measures. Your account has been randomly selected for this maintenance, and placed on Limited Access status. Protecting the security of your PayPal account is our primary concern, and we apologize for any inconvenience this may cause. To restore your account to its regular status, you must confirm your email address by logging in to your PayPal account using the form below: |
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A new player in the platform market, or should I say the return of an old player. I haven't heard from SCO in many years. |
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We are finding new moons. Next new planets. New suns. New species. Good work to all involved. Unfortunately, we'll all be dead in 22 billion years. |
| I almost converted to WiFi today. While they processed my order for a new Dude, Check This Out server, I was examining the Linksys wireless station and a PCI card for my laptop. | |
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724's Alerts moving forward. Spread the word. I was one of three original programmers on the Alerts team, with Roman Kulyk and Mike Lepenna. Eventually, I took over the team when I became department manager of content server development at 724 Solutions. We eventually purchased Spy-On-It from Chicago. The alerts products were reorganized under the new Spy-On-It team and I left 724 shortly afterwards. Roman and Mike wrote the original Alerts Generator in Java. I wrote the Message Manager in C++. We were using a product by Yrless to dispatch the wireless SMS alerts. We eventually purchased Yrless. The good old days. It's funny that they use the same names today to describe the next generation applications. |
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New scientist always produces the coolest articles. This is one on an alternate fuel for America's transportation fleet. Unfortunately, Bush has already laid the plans for hydrogen engines. I wonder if the U.S. government will change their tune. |
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I'd love to hear Ray Ozzie's opinions on this. This and other Microsoft P2P initiatives seems to be at a cross with Groove. Microsoft just finished a new round of financing with Groove. |
Potential competition in the myDBA arena. Actually, more like a starting point.
| Just finished the second interview with AC Nielsen for the .NET Architect contract position in Markham. Six to nine months. Hopefully, by the end of the contract, I'll have Dude, Check This Out in full gear. | |
I also bought a $500 +tax server from OzTech for Dude, Check This Out. I can pickup the computer either tonight or tomorrow, so I should have the server rebuilt Friday night. By Saturday, the latest.
Tomorrow, I have lunch with Chris Chan and Ben Hui, both x-724 employees. We'll meet at 12:30 PM at Times Square, Markam.
Monday, I met with Valentin Stefan and one of his friends. We discussed a new project, that I'll codename "Dude, Check My DB" :) ok maybe not, how about "myDBA".
And of course, I meet with the Bloogle crew tonight.
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I'm quite amazed at the extent of the Web Services chasm. Since 1998, I've heard a lot about specs, but not much else. Look at Amazon's Web Services for a what can be done. sourced from Alec's .LOG |
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| Ya know, I'm watching Teletoons with my kids? 12:30 AM and my daughter of five and son of two are still kicking around Chipits and Teddy Grahams, watching Bugs fool the crew. |
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The scare created by Slammer is worse than its byte. All of a sudden, programmers are actually checking their code for potential buffer overflows. This is leading to an increase in the amount of bug patch releases. Or should I say virus protection patches. |
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Just found this. A few months old. News on 1X Inc.
NewsGator is a good RSS reader that plugs into Outlook. It loads all the Blog items as items in your Outlook folders. Generally, I like it, but wouldn't pay the $29. I wonder how many would pay the $29 for this software when other free software is available that does similar.
I don't know if this will fly. Even if we all paid the $29 per install fee, it is likely not enough to keep a company in business. They'd have to sell thousands of copies to pay the salary of one employee and hosting. I think they should repackage the idea into something a little bit more profitable. Maybe a sell-out to Userland or Blogger.
I picked up the new server this afternoon. The NIC port isn't exposed thru the case slot-plates. I'll have to bring it back tomorrow morning for a quick fix. Until then, no luck.
| The 250 km crater that barried all the dinosaurs. Acquired during the Feb 2000 Space Shuttle mission (Endeavour). |
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cool Jupiter pictures |
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| More on the PayPal email scam. I almost fell for the scam. Until I realized that the email was not sent to my regular PayPal email address, but rather an alternate older address that I used many eons ago. | |
With good news always comes the bad news.
more of the same...
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The dude is live again! It was a very frustrating week, with the first Dude server going dead and then troubles with the second Dude server. |
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Marineland finally made their classic commercials and songs available on the Web. I downloaded all the video and audio and set it on random repeat. A free babysitter. |
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Insignia for STS-107. The lost Columbia crew. |
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And the mission patch of the current Space Station Crew. | |
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Need a logo or a button done quickly and free? All the logos on the KBCafe.com site and Bloogle are actually done with Cooltext.com. |
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WiFi must be one of the "burst words" of the year. The concern of WiFi security is the same debate that took place only a few years ago with cable broadband security. With cable broadband, computers on the same cable trunk could see each others packets. The security concerns of cable broadband still exist and have not been sufficiently addressed. |
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I have a hard time spelling Lord Stanley without crying. Maybe this spring, things will be different.
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GO! Leafs! GO! Sundin-Roberts-Mogilny Svehla-Kaberle Belfour-Kidd |
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Jimmy Carter's thoughts on the war. I don't think Bush is going to like reading this. Carter presents an extremely anti-war view, backing the peace-sayers and slaming Bush and his friends. |
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cool! An image of what's to come in the world of video files sharing. What out Hollywood! |
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This is just a funny publicity stunt! Must read. The jist is that someone is building an Ark, as in Noah's Ark, to protect the human race from the coming flood. The Ark is up top a mountain with a ramp leading downward. All will be revealed on April 15th. |
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An RSS-based search engine. Similar to Bloogle. |
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myRSS generate an RSS feed for almost any news site. |
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I keep improving the indexing. Looks much better now. I had to give up on the Microsoft.mshtml dotNET component (a wrapper of their COM HTML controls). They leak and hang too much. I wrote my own simple HTML parsing routings, a subset of what Microsoft.mshtml does.
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Blogs truly are ripe. The trick is to figure out where you want to be when this Tornado takes off. Positioning is very important. Tony Perkins is one of the first entrepreneurs to attempt to monetize blogs beyond simple blog hosting and blogger tools. Dr Pepper have always produced original publicity stunts. They now have a plan to release a new drink called 'Raging Cow' using the blogging phenomena. |
I'm getting an offer from AC Nielsen, Markham this week. 9-month contract.
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Added a new section to Dude that captures forward and backward references from a blog. My sons been sick since Friday, so it's cut a lot into the amount of time I've spent on Dude. |
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Although I'm pro-peace, I don't think this should affect anyone's decision as to the real issue of whether we should go to war. This speaks of America's class system and how it protected the children of the rich during Vietnam. This also speaks to the bias of America's media who failed to adequately report this to the American electorate. |
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Let's go BLOGS! Great article for all the bloggers out there. We made it thru the Chasm. Now onto the Tornado. |
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What's a Chasm? Read Crossing the Chasm.
What's a Tornado? Read Inside the Tornado: Marketing Strategies... .
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Let's start with bad press is almost always better than no press. The author gives a horrible review of Opencola. But, it doesn't take much to refute the author's arguments. First, he suggests that the product requires too much re-thinking on part of the employees. Second, he suggests the P2P element will scare off managers. |
The re-thinking takes a few minutes and is not as great as the author would think. Once you sit down and use the product for 15-30 minutes, then you begin to realize how it works and the benefits.
The fear of P2P is that the network could be used for MP3 file sharing. Although the product is P2P, the network has a lot of security features, including the ability to turn off sharing of files of particular types (MP3, etc).
Note when digesting this, I am an x-Development Manager at Opencola.
Boing-boing's Cory Doctorow gets his book reviewed by the New York Times.
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Just a cool Blogger logo I found. Source wbloggar. W.bloggar is another blog editing tool. |
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Sundin-Roberts-Mogilny
Antropov-Nolan-Renberg
Tucker-Green-Corson
Domi-Reichel-Gilmour (Hoglund or Fitzgerald)
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Lumme-Housley (Berg or Belak or Jackman)
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The amount of exposed security holes in an application is relative to the popularity and antogonism of the product.
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Blogger is quite insecure, according to this and other articles, but that won't change under Google. As the holes in blogger are fixed, the hackers will find more holes. Blogger's approach is typical and very effective. Ignore security during the prototyping and early stages. Then when you get adequate funding, you reconsider its priority. |
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Bush Sr on Jr's issues at hand. I find it hard to believe that Sr is talking publicly on his son's leadership. But, if true, this would be quite an interesting turn. |
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News on 724 alertsIt's good to see this partnership with CSC pick up some momentum and the steady stream of publicity of late is a bonus. I think they've turned the corner. |
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The $27 million dollar man. I wonder how much bin Laden is worth? |
Notes: The islands are like weblog communities.
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David Winer resigns from Userland?I guess it's true, cause he posted a link on his own blog. I didn't see this coming. I wonder where this leaves the bloguiverse? |
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Something weird happened today. I incorporated a new company online. Actually, I did the name-search myself online, then submitted the incorporation papers online. I got the certificate of incorporation this morning. Less than 24 hours after I submitted them. It took about an hour to submit the papers. |
War against SpamThe War against Spam is just heating up. Email providers are beginning to use anti-spam and anti-viral features to attrack customers. This will go a long way towards cleaning up my 100-200 emails per day problem. I actually only get a dozen or two non-spam emails, less than the amount of email scams. And I also get one or two email viruses per week. |
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But only about 10% of my email goes thru my yahoo account, randymorin@yahoo.com. Less than 5% goes thru my hotmail account, morin_randy@hotmail.com. The rest go thru the unlimited accounts I have at the kbcafe domain, mostly randy@kbcafe.com.
I found that hotmail is best at guarding against spam and viruses. Hotmail scans all my attachments before I download them. I get a lot of porn spam from Yahoo!
Sorry about Comet Cursor. That was annoying in the least. Arggg!
I removed it.
Linus Torvalds discusses the SCO v IBM complaintLinus rejects the notion that Linux would not be an enterprise OS without IBMs help. SCO claimed that IBM shared proprietary knowledge of the UNIX OS to help improve Linux. |
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Just finished the first draft of the Dude bar. Looking for feedback, especially bugs. You can download the Beta here. Click the thumb for an enlarged view. Best clarity when it is maximized. See the bottom right of the toolbar for the Dude bar. |
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I don't watch many movies, but today I was at Swiss Chalet and we got their dinner and a movie deal (not much of a deal). A stop by Blockbuster video and we picked up one movie for the kids, one for my wife and one for me. I don't think I've watched a movie in over a month. The last movie I watched at the theatre was Star Wars - Episode I. I bought the AI movie a month or two ago. That would be the last movie I watched. The movie is great until the scene where the kid sits underwater for 000s of years. They should have stopped there. Then it gets boring. What i appreciate about the movie is the robots love of his mother, similar to my son's love of his mom, my wife. |
Looks good. Quite disturbing. Not very good. In fact, it's stupid. It's just another stupid horror movie. The sexual beatings are pointless. This would work, if not for the very disturbing scenes. A good job of suspense when he first visits the site. The actors/actresses aren't going to win anything. Ever! Somebody's bad dream. Not mine. I'm betting it's the leading actor or at least one of the cops. Compensate for a bad story with worse computer graphics. Classic horror show ending. Ending was just as bad as the story. My overall optionion is that it's not worth the money. I've been robbed $0. It's no wonder I watch so little TV/video.
Good news from NASAThey are planning the next shuttle flight for as early as the fall, but not before they uncover the cause of the recent disaster. I was afraid it would be more than a year and maybe two before the next shuttle launched. |
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Just signed a 9-month .NET architect contract with AC Nielsen. I got the contract from W5. They also placed me full-time with Opencola, not much less than a year ago. James Lee and W5 have served me well. Thanks.
Anybody else looking for work in the Toronto area, I'd suggest sending your resume to them. Tell them that Randy Morin referred you.
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I can't find the reasons the 5 claims were thrown out. If anybody finds anything, then please send them my way. The companies that have already settled with Stambler are Openware, First Data and Certicom. Omnisky was also sued, but went bankrupt before Stambler got any money. |
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IIOP transport for dotNET remoting. Cool!
Sourced from Spoutlet.
RefingThe penalties in this game were debatible. McCabe obstruction penalty happens about 50-100 times per game. How can you call one of them and not the other few dozen instances? In the 80s, it was always a joke that their was an unheard of penalty called 2 minutes for being a Leaf. The league has resurrected the penalty over the last few weeks. ReasonerActually, bad refing is an overall problem, not just a Leaf problem. Marty Reasoner got a penalty for diving tonight against Dallas. He was on a break-away and was clearly pulled down by Zubov. Should have been a penalty shot, but instead the ref called it diving. The fans boo-ed the refs for a good minute straight. The refs deserved it. |
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Sundin crushed May with an open ice hit. May cut to the middle of the ice and didn't see Sundin, expect a hit or prepare himself. Clean hit. May's head hit the ice real hard. Looks like he's ok!
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Too bad for Dean McAmmond. The Flames and the league are at fault here. Somebody at the league should have reviewed the trade for compliance with league trading rules. Somebody on the Flames should have done the same. It's not like there's thousands of trading rules. |
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I also tried to get some things done with the Google API, but didn't get much cooperation from the Google. At first they seemed to want to help, but then they didn't carry-thru on their work items. I wonder if the anacubis people had similar issues.
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Registered for anacubis, but couldn't find any pages where I could download it. Must be a restrictive beta. The way Google has structured its Google API, it's difficult to provide an interesting client application with unrestrictive downloads. |
For instance, I have a tool called Juice that uses the Google API. For the Beta, I have required that everyone download their own Google API key. This is quite restrictive and will discourage use, but I didn't have any other choice. I think each key is restricted to 100 searches per day.
I applied to increase my key's query limit and at first Google seemed to like the idea. But they never carried thru on their evalution to increase my limite.
I went to the Hitch House again today, with the wife and kids. We kinda decided we like the Royal Classic 280RC instead of the Trail-lite.

Name change from "A Real Geek's Blog" to "The Real Geek's Blog". Also considering
Another Google API tool. Quote from the page.
Sorry, Google key quota exceeded for 3/16. Only popular (cached) sites will be shown.
TouchGraph has the same problem with key quota's that I experienced with Juice.
I was quite surprised. Somebody must have actually read my blog today :)
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While at AC Nielsen I'll be converting this application to dotNET. |
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Yep, it does! Do I have to say anything else? How about another clever quote.
Ah, that explains it! They are in Utah. |
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I really hope cooler heads will prevail. France, Russia, Britain and the U.S. have shown nothing but stubborness and an inability to negotiate fairly. It's their way or the highway. The last time such stubborness played on the world stage, the result was the demise of the League of Nations and the start of World War II. The words of William Lyon Mackenzie King, Prime Minister of Canada on the actions of the League of Nations. "collective bluffing cannot bring collective security" I re-iterate his words more than sixty years later. |
| This will be one of our first stop overs when we buy the RV. Located 60 kms from the house, it'll be a good practice run. | |
I noticed that Radio hosted blogs are taking more than a minute to load at times today. I guess the recent buzz around blogs is causing havoc with the blog hosting services.
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As ATI challenges Nvidia for graphics chip king-of-the-hill, Godzilla's shadow darkens ATI's future. I love the metaphor of Intel as Godzilla looking onto the battefield as ATI and Nvidia fight it out. ATI and Nvidia unaware of Godzilla's presence. |
| J2ME wins another battle in the war over the mobile platform. Both Qualcomm and Sun were going to find themselves on the losing side if they didn't team against Wintel (Microsoft and Intel). Now we have a good alternate mobile platform to mobile Wintel. |
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I enabled comments some time ago, but they never appeared on my blog. Didn't know why and wasn't concerned. When I created categories, the comments appeared in the category blogs, but are still not in the main blog. Interesting. Let me see if I can figure this out!
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Why would a team that is several points out of the playoffs, make so many short term moves, trading money for players at the trading deadline, in some kind of weird play that is more typically of a team trying to win the Stanley Cup then make the playoffs? |
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Gilmour expected back for the first round of the playoffsWe got some great news yesterday. Gilmour may be back in time for the time for the start of the playoffs. The stars are lining up. With a little luck, the boys will give a good shot to bringing home Mr. Stanley. |
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I'm drinking about one half to one liter of Five Alive per day. It's my substitute for my usual high consumption of the three evil drinks; beer, coffee and cola. Favorite beers are Upper Canada Dark and Rickards Red. Coffee is Tim Horton's. Cola is Coke, A&W and Dr Pepper. I like Cherry Coke too! |
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Buffer overflowAnother buffer overflow problem. This time, it's Sun's ONE Application Server. Sun ONE = Architecture, Platform, Expertise, Vision and buffer overflows :) |
I'm experimenting with Radio's categories.
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Tim, get some better programmers. If you struggle with XML, then you have real problems. I amazed a lot of people this last year by setting up an Amazon or Google client using their SOAP (a.k.a. XML) APIs in minutes. Tim graduated from a farmer's college, U of Guelph, so he may have an excuse :) I am truly joking, my sister went to UofG also. |
| O-step is a comprimise between copyright and copyleft (open source). Sort of a copymiddle. I'm still not a fan of the copyleft movement. It's popular, but hell, how do you make money? I have 2 kids, a wife and one kid on the way. They want a motorhome, so that we can visit Disney every year. | |
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This film was delayed for six-months because of the DC sniper. It's now going to be one of the biggest film gates ever. It opens April 4th. Related, Lee Boyd Malvo, the younger partner in the sniper dual has been writing excerts from movie "The Matrix." Two "The Matrix" sequels are scheduled for release this year. |
Not again! Fortunately, this vunerability only applies to Windows 2000 servers. I currently don't have one of those. I've moved to Windows XP. I have a Windows 2000 workstations with IIS, but it's not on the Interenet, it's NATed.
Microsoft's release
| New Dude Bar look. What do you think? You can't download this version as of yet. This version will include a new wizard setup and the ability to import favorites as cool items. | |
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Another park that we'll be visiting monthly during the summer months. Guess why? Yes, it's around the corner from Marineland Canada, my daughter and son's favorite place in the whole world. |
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This is the press release from the UN announcing resolution 1441 with the full-text of the resolution attached. I wonder if President Bush would agree that his administration did not comply with paragraph 10 of resolution 1441. |
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If the inspectors leave, then war is a certainty. I think we are days away from war. I've considered lately that the U.S. Administrations unwillingness to negotiate has nothing to do with Iraq. Iraq is an easy target, one that is being used to teach a lesson to North Korea. |
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Some news from my x-company. In fact, two press releases in one day.
It's the first day of the CTIA Wireless 2003 Show in New Orleans. |
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724 is also looking for an Investor and Public Relations Manager to be located in Santa Barbara, there unofficial headquarters.
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Now that's pie in the face of the U.S. Administration. With this new information, surely the U.S. must back down on their threat of war. Much of the American anti-Iraq talk over the last few months has been based on documents that were obvious forgeries. |
Watched two of my favorite movies tonight with my son; Batman Returns and Batman Forever. I'm not usually a movie watcher, but have found myself enjoying a few this weekend.
Here's an interesting blog, direct from a reporter looking for trouble in Sadam's backyard.
| I got the new Dude Bar working. I'll make it available later tonight. Then I have to focus on some scalability. Some of the pages take a long time to load, because they query a lot of data. I'll optimize these. | |
so the dudecheckthisout.homeip.net is not working anymore
replace with http://24.43.183.136 temporarily
this is a dynamic IP, so good luck, we need a static IP
dyndns.org is back and I changed the IP
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A great industry! I just wish 1X could do something about it. I now know why venture capital would rather invest in good management than good ideas. This is one good idea that was destroyed by bad management. |
In-game commentsI'm just tuning in for the start of the second period. Leafs are winning 1-0 on a goal by Mogilny, assisted by Berg. They outshot the Isles 8-1 in the first period. Leafs started the 2nd well with four shots in the first minute, all Dipietro saves. Nolan makes it 2-0 on the power play. Leafs were playing very defensively, too defensively in the first half of the third. Isles scored, now 2-1. Now 2-2. Great pass by Reichel to put Nolan in all along who shelved it for a power play goal. 3-2. Tied 3-3. Arggg! The Leafs dominated the game, except for the first 10 minutes of the third period. Belfour had another bad game, letting in a real softy to allow the Isles back into the game. That's ok, he had a great game last time out. |
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For the first time in my life, I cooked fish (if you don't count pre-battered fish sticks). I'm not much a fan of fish, but I'm getting older. It wasn't very tasty. I broiled it. I'm more of a hamburger (beer), chicken (beer), pork (beer) and roast (beer) type of person. |
| There seemed to be something wrong with my email these last few days. I've disabled the problematic features, but if you have sent me an email in the last month and I didn't respond, then please re-send it. | |
| I'm starting to get complaints that Radio Userland is too slow. At the height of the blog surfing hours, it takes a minute to load any of the pages. I think I'm going to switch my blog to my kbcafe.com domain. | |
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I just got approval from Google to have my daily query limit increased to 10,000 per day. That should be enough to begin making some serious client applications. I'll come up with a new version of Juice that supports this increase in the next week or two. |
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A less informed view on the SCO v IBM complaint. The author argues that SCO wasn't robbed of marketshare because its the low cost of Linux that made it popular and that SCO's Unix could not have captured similar share. This argument does not hold any legal merit. Assumption: IBM did move technology from Unix to Linux, otherwise this debate is meaningless. I don't know if this is true or not, but I'd love to know the answer. With this assumption, it doesn't matter if Linux stole market share, it only matters that they stole intellectual property. Given such, the compaint is warranted. Without question. And Linux-64 would increase in price from $0 to $149 per server processor. |
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A very well written piece on the coming of war and the U.S. I haven't figured out where I fit into the war in Iraq debate. Surely Saddam deserves his fate. France is acting like France shortly before World War II. Russia is sitting on the sidelines, acting like they are not a world power. The U.S. is war mongering. We are trading economy for ideology. |
More 724 news. Things are really picking up for them. Or at least it seems so.
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@chuck e cheese w/ kids. sent via mobile. Actually, only the first line was sent via mobile, the rest and picture I touched up afterwards. Chuck E Cheese is a good ground for finding out bad parents and good parents. Some parents will watch their kids bully other kids and do nothing about it. Other parents will let their children run wild without any supervision. |
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| CNN is reporting more than 40 cruise missiles were fired in the first wave of activity. | |
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Joe Lieberman was just on CNN and fully backs the President and his actions. If anybody is the X to Bush's O, it is Lieberman. That's a great show of support. |
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The remarks made by the president at the onset of the attacks on Iraq. Video also. |
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Get your Iraq v. US news here.
Human error? Human's a stupid. That's the number one rule in any technology development project. You have to account for the stupid human. The problem is not that we can't weed out the stupid human from our organization. No matter what you do, the presence of the stupid human will remain. The only way to solve the IT security breach problem is to account for the stupid human.
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First time I heard the word "Blog" mentionned on TV. My daughter was watching this show (YTV) when I happened to be in the room cleaning by son's peepee in the family floor. The show spent the time to explain what a blog was and how it could be used. Didn't watch more than a minute or two. |
| Ahhh!!! I think the Vulnerability Wars have begun. The pro-Microsoft camp is exposing the flaws in Linux and other Microsoft competition, the anti-Microsoft camp is exposing flaws in Windows. | |
The different camps must have been saving up vulnerabilities just for this time. Each day a new vulnerability is revealed. On day, Oracle. The next, Microsoft. The next, Linux. The next, Microsoft. Etc. Fun times. It's like a virtual Sadam v. Bush.
More camp vulnerability-wars news
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No more thick red books by Dr. Grimes and his crew? One of my favorite books was by Wrox press; Professional Dcom Programming by Richard Grimes. |
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I've tried many techniques for busting spam. I tried ignoring the emails. That didn't work. I tried unsubscribing. That didn't work either. I've even had some spam delivered to me that said I had opted-into receiving email from them. The email address was webmaster@kbcafe.com, or similar. I don't use this address, but I make it available on my website for feedback. So how did I opt-in? |
I also used a email address once to subscribe for an Excite service for my dad. Now I get lots of spam on that email address. That makes it easy for me to tell you that Excite is selling your email addresses to spammers.
| The poison was found on Monday, but there contents was only determined today. They also found traces in a locker. | |
From earlier in the week. You can see the prints here.
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Great blog from any Iraqi living in Baghdad. He talks about about driving around the city before the attack and the bombing. He also has a great anti-War rant. Must read! |
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A cool toolbar.
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Another great war blog, The Agonist. Qusay and his father on right. Related headlines |
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There seems to be some bugs with the personal newspaper on Dude Bar and Dude links. I'm looking into it.
| Did Baghdad see the Stealth attach coming? This is a picture of the B2 stealth bomber. | |
| Iraq has claim that they have destroyed an American helicopter. I doubt we'll ever know the truth. American's will deny, either way. | |
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Will the real Saddam please stand up? The American now doubt they have killed Saddam. |
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Anti-aircraft fire and tracers have begun illuminating the sky above Baghdad. Bombs have landed. The attack is well under way. Buildings are smoking. A few more bombs have landed. Great coverage by Nic Robertson on CNN TV. |
Feedster in the news.
second day I've been in the weblog top 100 rankings
now 69, 66, 52, 49, 44
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Turkey backs the U.S.. The northern front will primarily be pushed by the Iraqi Kurds and/or Turkey with some support from the Americans. The Americans will likely use the Turkey airspace for bombing runs to more central Iraqi targets and is not expected to drop large amounts of troops into northern Iraq. It should be remembered that the Kurds would like their own country, Kurdistan and Turkey fears such a state as the entire eastern part of Turkey is dominated by Kurds. |
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CNBC confirms the war has officially started.
A White House briefing is scheduled for 12:30 PM EST.
| It has been suggested even by the Rumsfeld that Iraq has set several oil wells on fire in southern Iraq. Iraq supposedly created an oil slick near the Iraq-Kuwait border. An attempt to slow the Americans move of troops north to Baghdad from Kuwait. |
| A great opening story in the war. Was Hussein killed in the attack? Was he even at the scene? Is he laughing at the Americans for a big miss? Is he paranoid that his location may be known by the Americans? Is he dead? | |
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Great animations. It's worth a peek. The pic on the left is a still of one of the animations. There's a few animations and a half dozen or so great stills. |
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I just got some SPAM that uses the weblogs XML feeds to extract email addresses in order to deliver SPAM. The item is actually a study on blog links. Which is somewhat of interest, but still unappreciated. This would be a great channel for deliver information to the middlemen in a Word of Mouth compaign. |
| This Dude Bar has better icons, a setup wizard, you can import your favorites into your blogs, some wait cursors and more. | |
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The league and refs are selectively applying the rules. This makes it very difficult on the players. The McCabe incident is not what we normally term diving. Unfortunately, Bettman and his crew don't know enough about hockey to know differently. Tonight McCauley for San Jose got a penalty for holding. If that's holding, then I'm blind, he simply played his man physically and very well. On another play, McGillis got called for holding, he slightly held up his man on the rush. If McGillis' play is holding, then there's a penalty on every rush in the NHL. The problem is not the players, the divers, etc. The problem is the league officiating. It's horrible. This is the worst season of reffing I've ever seen. It's unpredictable. |
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| Firing Robbie Ftorek near the end of the season has proven a good move in the past. New Jersey went on to win the Stanley Cup with Larry Robinson replacing Ftorek. If the season ended today, the Bruins would play the Devils in the first round of Lord Stanley's tourney. | |
Major events like the war on Iraq can often kick-off new Tornados. Could Web-based news be a next big thing? I don't think Web-based news is quite ready yet. We need more broadband adoption before people turn to the Web for their news. Textual news just doesn't replace the full-media news available on TV. I have broadband and yet, I'm watching CNN and CNBC all day.
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Demonstration around the world, in Canada and the U.S.A.. Great pictures, video on the Chicago Tribune webpage. |
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Left: One of the pictures from Chicago on the Tribune website. Click to enlarge. |
Turkey has supposedly invaded northern Iraq. The residents, known as Kurds, have threatened to defend their land against the Turks, if they entered Iraqi-Kurdistan.
Could this be World War?
More on Turk-Kurd conflict
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Iraqi soldiers continue to surrender in droves. Some great pictures there. Pic from AlJazeera.net. No those aren't soldiers, just a family looking for refuge. |
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| More flaws found is SSL. This looks like a vulnerability that can be quickly patched up. The flaw is only in some implementations and those implementations can be re-configured to behave like the implementations that don't have this vulnerability. | |
| The Baghdad team was doing a great job of bringing the war to the World veiwer. I'm thinking they were mentionning too much about what the American's were hitting with their bombs. This removed the Iraqi governments ability to report that civilian targets were being hit. | |
More on the potential occupation by Turkey of Iraqi-Kurdistan.
Turkey wants control of northern Iraq to stop any idea of creating an independent Kurdistan state. The U.S. being aware of this, doesn't want Turkey forces in northern Iraq, neither do the Kurds, who have suggested they would consider it an invasion and defend their territory.
Some great side politics surround this war. This is very similar to the Germany, Russia, Spain and Italian problems that arose shortly before the start of World War II.
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Here a few Kurdistan websites. |
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great live video from Bahdad on CNN right now you can hear the bomber approaching, then the bomb hits its target, then the anti-aircraft fire, too late! Pic on left: Check out the blast and the mushroom on the right of the blast! |
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great slide show of pic from A.P. and another from Reuters, check it out! Yahoo! has great pix all around. more surrender stories |
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Iraqi claims rarely hold water, sometimes when your propaganda machine continues to cry wolf, everybody stops listening. from The Agonist.
With war comes casualties on both sides. Two American soldiers are reported dead this morning.
CNN is revealing that today is called A Day, the beginning of the "Shock & Awe" campaign.
more pix, click to enlarge
fun, I'm #85 this morning, third day in the top 100, second in a row
now 82, 69, 61, 60, 57, 54
| Meet with Wednesday morning-afternoon. Good product. They were looking for help on how to sell it. They have the same problem most of the dotCOM had, they spent all their money on product development and don't know where to start marketing the product. | |
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Did you hear that? The rattling? The rattling of the North Koreans boots. Don't f with Godzilla unless you're willing to deal with him in your backyard. The more I hear about North Korea, the more I realize that the war on Iraq has more todo with rattling North Korea, than removing Saddam Hussein. |
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| The Penguins look horrible. They were in the playoff hunt when the player dump began with Kovalev. They haven't won many games since and are now last in the NHL. If I were a player on the Penguins, I wouldn't show for the game either. | |
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Once again, Toronto has 9 power plays against. Players are now diving left-and-right against the Leafs, knowing that with Toronto's reputation, some refs will call the penalty against the Leafs everytime. |
Looking back to the Isles game, the experienced refs in that game called two diving penalties against the Islanders.
Presents a good list of blogs to visit to keep up to date on the latest developments in the war.Also, MSNBC has a new weblogs section. Currently this URL points to the same article.
| The Americans generally kill more of their own than are killed by their opposition. They are off to a similar start. | |

Bush spends a great deal of time, reassuring all religions that he's on their side.
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Click here, for a great slide show on the demontrations across the U.S.A. and the World. |
| The Americans should consider pulling out of Iraq before they kill themselves all off. It's getting ridiculous how the Americans kill more friendly targets than the opposition kills unfriendly targets. Beyond the 30+ who have been injured or killed in Iraq by friendly fire and mishaps, remember back to the four dead and eight injured Canadians in Afghanistan some months ago. | |
| Another early possibility, opens April 1st, close to my work. Looks like a nice place. | |

This place opens April 1st and is near the house. Might be our first stop.

I put down $1,000 to hold an RV. It's going to be a great summer. We could get the RV as soon as 2 weeks.
OptionsNet price will be $87,000 CDN plus tax, or $100,050 CDN gross.
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Here we go! We decided to go to the Hitch House today. Good chance that we'll buy. I don't know if I'll take a new one off the lot, one that is already ordered or order one on my own. |
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fun, I'm #89 this morning, fourth day in the top 100, third in a row.
now 87