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Archive for August, 2006

The CNN Burn Victim Dell Picture

Tuesday, August 15th, 2006

For those of you who have been looking for “that fire-ravaged Dell laptop picture” they’ve been plastering all over CNN all day today, here it is.
“Dude! Your laptop’s burning in HELL!”

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Gmail Manager 0.5 Released

Tuesday, August 15th, 2006

A new version of Gmail Manager - the Gmail notifier for Firefox - has been released. The new version supports hosted Gmail accounts (Gmail for Domains) and adds numerous other features listed in the changelog.
Justin (who deserves the hat tip for noticing this) thinks the domain names make the button too wide. Try […]

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The Response From The Liberal Party…

Tuesday, August 15th, 2006

Oh yeah. Remember when I said I sent them an e-mail last night? Here is the form letter response.
Thanks for your email concerning the upcoming leadership race. As you well know, it is up to the rank and file members of the Liberal Party and the delegates they elect to decide on the […]

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More On Bob Rae

Tuesday, August 15th, 2006

In an odd coincidence, this letter to the editor appeared in the Toronto Star today.
I think he said it more eloquently than I did and hit a few points that I didn’t.
I find it tremendously amusing that the aforementioned Letter To The Editor was linked from the FRONT PAGE of Google News as a leading […]

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St. Charles Protect Us

Monday, August 14th, 2006

Thirty years ago I would never have thought there would come a day when the Liberal Party of Canada would screw up SO BAD that they would reach the point of desperation of reaching out to a former NDP premier to run for the position of leader of the party.
Every time I read more news […]

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Quoth The Grackle, Nevermore

Saturday, August 12th, 2006

Whipper is a nutty cat. She just jumped up on the window beside my chair and started making this weird noise. It’s not an unfamiliar noise, but it’s an odd cat noise. Back when I lived in Bowmanville and the windows in the apartment were at ground level the grackles used to […]

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I don’t know why I like the Mary Winkler story so much. I think it fascinates me because there’s GOT to be more to the story, and I as I read today, I found another piece.
Hold onto your hats.
Apparently some of the “stress” in Mary Winkler’s marriage was brought on by a loss of […]

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