yesterday i met up with some local bloggers for brunch and about midway through the meal i was assigned the task of taking minutes. im tempted to add minute taking to the list of things im not especially good at but i might have done better had i known from the beginning that i would be taking minutes. as it was i was a bit of a sloppy intermittent cryptic minutetaker. here are my notes such as ......
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canadas federal government is trying to bury an important report on climate change and health but the blogosphere is fighting back last month cc reported that canadas federal government was planning a lowprofile release of human health in a changing climate a canadian assessment of vulnerabilities and adaptive capacity a 500page report prepared for health canada. as with a previous report from n......
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with every passing day harpers government becomes less and less distinguishable from shrubs. the latest data point is news that the tories have tried to hide a health canada report that calls on decisionmakers governments and stakeholders to step up their efforts to prevent global warming from threatening the nations air quality saying the bad air increased the spread of diseases and caused prema......
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i got an email from robin today saying that my two days of blogging silence had not gone unnoticed and would be going on my permanent record. i intend to appeal this ruling as i never received my first or final warnings. however. in the meantime i feel compelled to think of something anything to blog about. as i alluded to in my previous post the ottawa blogging community has been remarkably uni......
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after a random and horrific knife decapitation on a greyhound bus last week does this surprise anyone a grisly slaying on a greyhound bus has prompted calls for tighter security on canadian bus lines despite the company and canadas transport agency calling the stabbing death a after the manner of tragedy but isolated incident. greyhound spokeswoman abby wambaugh said bus travel is the safest mod......
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milan ilnyckyj offers up a typology of what he calls hairshirt environmentalists greens who argue that we have to do a whole lot less of what we do conserve or were doomed harm principle advocates moral minimalist s conserv eorweredoo med types like kunstler are generally the most entertaining though ive said before that i dont think they give human ingenuity and resourcefulness enough credit. most......
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a sibilant intake of breath put an intriguing blog post on software piracy and photoshopheres a quick excerpt an article on slate.com argues that firms should sometimes tolerate or encourage the unauthorized copying of intellectual property like music or software. the article argues that piracy can be a form of promotion and that when it comes to expensive software it can help a particular prod......
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click here to download ers20080409 113 this weekend the weather was awesome my neck is sunburn and im still sore from all the activities we did. it felt good to be outside sweating in the sun and with my family. i hope that the weather was just as nice in your neck of the woods. this was just the kind of weekend i was looking forward too after a tough week at work. please consider doing this fo......
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a sibilant intake of breath placed an observative post today on comprehensive storageheres a quick excerpt your average active computer user has more and more data. the first computer i effectively administered had 170 megabytes of hard disk space. difficult choices had to be made about the relative merits of doom versus simcity. now just my primary email account has 1500 megabytes of data in it.......
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