Canadians to get a flood of American immigrants next year

Seems like the US Government [http://www.sss.gov/perfplan_fy2004.html] are looking into the re-implementation of the draft system because enlistment is down and it is war time if you didn't know. Last time they had a draft, Canada got an influx in US immigrants, otherwise

Local downloading of the Clone Wars animation

Over at <a href-"http://www.starwars.com">starwars.com you can view the Clone Wars animation via a Quicktime stream. What if you wanted to download it locally and view the whole thing in your own time. Here is Quicktime ripping 101 :) Tools: wget or

Made with real girl guides!

Someone at work brought in a box of the new Girl Guide [http://www.girlguide.ca] cookies for us to all sample, and they are good :) From the Girl Guide website: > Our consumer research shows that this new cookie exceeds all expectations of what a great tasting Girl Guide

Essay: Blogs

Scott Simon read his essay on blogs on the NPR, here is the link [javascript:getMedia('WESAT',%20'15-Nov-2003',%2012,%20'WM,RM');] so you too can hear it. Its both funny and shows that the art of bloging his still in its infancy

"It's not a map of Canada, it's a piece of art"

As found on a post on metafilter [http://www.metafilter.com], it turns out that the new CBC [http://www.cbc.ca] building has a "map" of Canada in its lobby. The "map" has a few geographical errors such as, our new province Alaska, and Vancouver

New iPod / iTMS ad

Apple has released the 3rd iPod / iTunes Music store ad, featuring "Rock Star" by N.E.R.D.remixed by Jason Nevins. So currently we have a Hip Hop ad, a Rock ad, and now a dance ad... I hope apple doesn't do a country ad

No one expects the spanish inquisition!

In recent news it was reported that the N-Gage from Nokia was cracked, meaning that with a little effort you can copy the games off the game card, swap them with friends or over the net thus pirating Nokia's new money generator. > A vital part of the

Why Personal Websites Matter

There is a good article over at TechUser.net [http://www.techuser.net] regarding "Why Personal Websites Matter [http://www.techuser.net/index.php?content=23]" I have to agree with the article, and if you were thinking of starting our own website or blog you should give

What to do if your Mom discovers your blog

The support folks are having fun the past few days, they wrote a Knowledge Base article to help you solve the problem of "What to do if your Mom discovers your blog [http://help.blogger.com/bin/answer.py?answer=655&topic=-1]" before such a scary

New design

I've been fiddling with a style sheet that I got from Movablestyle.com [Movable Style] that looks like the blog hosting site TypePad.com [http://www.typepad.com/]. I finally decided to let it see the light of day. No longer does my blog look a series of