Posts Tagged ‘news’

hooray

22May08

Time for a change – I changed the theme today. Now it is a bit easier to read. I don’t like all the white, however, but the layout and text colors are good…


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bummed out news

10Feb08

This last few weeks, perhaps months, the daily news feed is really bumming me out. If you pay attention to the popular news from CNN or Fox or even the BBC – the popular news sucks. It’s disheartening to always hear about the latest catastrophe or celebrity gossip. I am tired of hearing about people [...]


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loose nut behind the wheel

11Dec07

Reading a Canadian newspaper online this morning, I found an article about a subject that gets me worked up pretty quickly. Auto insurance premiums.
So the back-story on the article is there is a college age young man in British Columbia (western Canadian province) that has received a quote from a insurance group for an annual [...]


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got common sense?

07Nov07

Wired has posted an article about safety systems in luxury cars, that I am in complete agreement with. I am all for helping drivers operate their vehicles better (especially where I am from, where everyone drives everywhere) but taking choice and vigilance out of the equasion might make the roads less safe.
I always thought that as [...]


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More fuel for the fire

07Nov07

Earlier I had posted about how Facebook had a major investment from Microsoft, and how I didn’t want to be part of that. So I left and ”disabled” my account. 
I am fairly certain that disabled means “I’m not here right now, but go ahead and surf my statistics, Facebook (and your partners).”
Yesterday they announced a new ad application [...]


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