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This afternoon I watched what I thought was shaping up to be a more mundane opening ceremony than Athens: Opera and ballet and no flying land-forms or giant temporary lakes. But then I heard the greatest thing I’ve heard all week. As the modern dancers left the stage out of the floor appeared the Scuderia… Continue Reading Scuderia Ferarri at Olympic opening ceremony

I recorded (well, MythTV’d) FOX’s 24 and watched it Tuesday night. It’s amazing what you notice when you can pause and rewind TV: I thought I saw John McCain deliver a docket to the conference room in CTU. A quick rewind made me even more certain. I Google’d it and AZCentral.com and the Hill News… Continue Reading McCain on 24

The caller ID system allows advanced users to change their ID number to any number they want. This is so people calling from companies, etc. can have their caller ID appear as the main company phone number, not the outgoing line the internal phone system choose. This has allowed hackers to spoof caller ID calls… Continue Reading Spoof caller IDs, mask your voice

DISTRICT: St. Catharines Rick Dykstra CON 21668 37.46% X Walt Lastewka LIB 21424 37.04% Jeff Burch NDP 11849 20.48% A year ago I called Walt Lastewka’s office and asked him to vote for gay marriage. The person working the phone assured me that St. Catharines was on the right of that issue. I’ll admit to… Continue Reading Vote Sucessfully Split

A student journalist at the U of T asked Jack Layton that if he can’t form a government should his supporters vote for the lesser of two evils? Layton’s response was “Stop voting for evil!” It looks like Monday will bring a conservative government because Liberal arrogance, inaction and corruption have caught up with it.… Continue Reading Stop voting for evil