tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-247859462011-12-13T20:00:51.662-08:00Science, News, Philosophy, etc ...<P> <li>"Its your karma, use it wisely ..." - elron steele</li> <li>This blog is a copy of my Steeletech Blog ...<P><a href="http://blog.globalparadigm.info/">Elron's Other Blog at Global Paradigms</a></li>Elronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16553303922522339754noreply@blogger.comBlogger1651100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24785946.post-39780859836843551622007-02-12T18:49:00.000-08:002007-02-12T18:48:01.636-08:00

For new posts go see my new blog at Global Paradigm ...Another way to blame Hollywood? As is probably apparent, one of my favorite sections of Salon.com is the War Room. The little bits of minutia that they manage to find for that section, coupled with the wit and writing skills of Tim Grieve, make it a truly fascinating read every day. In today’s War Room is a wonderful little

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For new posts go see my new blog at Global Paradigm ...

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Just wanted to let everyone know that this blog is officially closed now. I am currently serving my own blog at http://blog.globalparadigm.info/ and maintaining a copy at http://elronsviewfromtheedge.wordpress.com/ ... I will likely not be updating this location very much, so please check in at one of the above locations for my current posts :)Thanx for reading ...

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Pavilion Lake -Home - Carbonates and Mars in a BC lake Posted by batemanl on July 5th, 2006 Pavilion Lake -Home I saw this on CBC's The National last night, so I did a bit of research into it today and wanted to share with everyone. Apparently, these microbialites are unusual in fresh water, though to me they appear to be very similar in form to salt-water reefs and coral growths. At

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Amherst Times - AOL SAID, ‘IF YOU LEAVE ME I’LL DO SOMETHING CRAZY’ I must admit to getting a good laugh out of this article. The whole notion of “up-selling” is one that goes WAY into the extreme here … its one thing to try and convince paying customers to spend a bit more, but something else entirely to be forcing cancellations to spend so long on the phone. The original blog article is

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War Room - Salon.com Recently, I wrote something about why the Geneva Conventions (also here) are important, and why they need to be applied to combatants in all armed conflicts, including the one we are currently in. Go here for the original post, sparked off by a discussion I was having in one of my Yahoo groups at the time. It’s somewhat heartening to hear the SCOTUS agree with me on the

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Astronomy Picture of the Day Today’s astro pic is another Mars-scape courtesy of the Spirit Rover. These shots always fascinate me … perhaps its just the geek in me, but the idea of looking out over alien horizons is something that has always fascinated me. Its the same urge that drives explorers, I think. There is always lust for power, for independence, for wealth, that drives us to expand our

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If all the world truly is a stage built of infinitely complex sets of exquisite detail And we are truly but players in this grand docu-comedy tragi-horror biopic Is it too much to expect that somwhere from someone, we might see a copy of the script?

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CNN.com20-20Shuttle20gets20fueled20up20for20launch20-20Jul2012C202006 The Space Shuttle Discovery is set to launch later today, assuming they have good weather and the small problems they have remain small. A colleague wrote an interesting description of it this morning … Check out the DarkWorld view of America’s Penis. Its hard to argue his conclusions … the 70’s mantra of “safe and cheap”

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Just wanted to post a quick message to let everyone know I’m having a bit of a busy week. Taking a course for work, so I am not online during the day as much (ironic that its only when I work that i have a lot of time to read, write and post, lol). There are a few things I’ve been meaning to blog on this week, and I am sure I will get to all of them by the weekend, but please bear with me for the

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BBC NEWS | Programmes | Panorama | Climate chaos: Bush’s climate of fear I just caught this documentary on CBC tonight, and I quite enjoyed it. I must admit I didn’t come to the subject with an open mind … it’s been pretty clear to me for some time now that human activity CAN affect climate, and climate is changing. We owe it to future generations not to gamble their future on our greed. In the

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The Good Samaritan Story explained I've commented on this briefly in the past, but I am in the middle of a discussion where its relevant, so I wanted to go into some more detail about it. The site I link at the top of this provides and excellent base interpretation of this parable, and while it is by no means the only lesson Jesus gave us, it is one of the most direct and important. Before

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I've been browsing through the Archives over at Modern Mechanix this morning and there are a couple of posts from the past I want to highlight quickly. So, in honour of that … $7,000,000,000 for door-to-door salesman is a wonderful article that could only have been written in the 50's. I suppose today's brave new world of direct sales are Internet e-commerce sites … the most direct way to

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I’ve been browsing through the Archives over at Modern Mechanix this morning and there are a couple of posts from the past I want to highlight quickly. So, in honour of that … $7,000,000,000 for door-to-door salesman is a wonderful article that could only have been written in the 50’s. I suppose today’s brave new world of direct sales are Internet e-commerce sites … the most direct way to direct

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Modern Mechanix » 1956: World’s First Hard Drive (5MB)In many ways, this represents the birth of modern computing as much as the first micro-processor, though its hard to see a resemblance between this hulking behemoth and the 200gb 3.5″ 1/4 height drive in your computer, but functionally speaking, this hard drive is the original progenitor of yours. A few things struck me in this, and made me

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TechEBlog » Audi R-Zero Electric Sports Car Now this is a SERIOUSLY cool car from Audi. Its a concept car, so the chances of it ever being made are slim to none, but the idea is very cool. Eventually, it seems inevitable that we will move to electric vehicles … as battery costs go down, and generation capacities go up, there seems very little down side, especially if efforts are made to make

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globeandmail.com : Catholic bishop says all bets are off There’s a potential controversy brewing Calgary’s Catholic community. For several decades now, the Calgary Seperate school board, essentially a Catholic organization, has used casinos and bingos as a way of fundraising for needed school supplies and events. Prior to the current noise made by Calgary’s Bishop Fred Henry, the Catholic

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Kuhn’s Structure of Scientific Revolutions - outline In his seminal work, The Structure of Scientific Revolution, Thomas Kuhn advances the notion that true advances in science do not come so much through the steady application of the scientific method, but rather through warring paradigms. While Kuhn has a very good understanding of the process of science, and the method of science, he is also

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Reflections on an old soul ...Originally uploaded by Elron6900.This is a small wetland in southern Alberta on a recent beautiful day. Trees have always fascinated me, and while I have no idea how old this particular tree is, in general trees have a lifespan that really has no relation to us mere mortals. Even though these trees look fairly 'young' in the terms of a tree, young can still mean 50

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In honour of the summer solstice, I thought I’d share some shots of Stonehenge I was able to take at Sunset a few years ago. Now, unfortunately, these weren’t done on the solstice (late November if I remember correctly), but that’s not really relevant anymore. When it was built 4000-5000 years ago, the arrangement of the stones on the solstices and the equinoxes was significant. But due to

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CANOE — CNEWS - Canada: Twin Winnipeg girls fight for right to play on boys high school hockey team This is an interesting story from Manitoba today. The central issue is really about how you select players for a hockey team, and there’s a secondary question about whether school athletics are perhaps different from community athletics. The point of the girls seems a fair one … their skill level

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War Room - Salon.com The War Room is one of my favorite places to go for political gossip, especially regarding whats going on inside the halls of US power. This was a fascinating look at what may happen with the Scooter Libby prosecution in the future, and it raises an interesting question for me. Does the fact of a pardon change the fact of a criminal trial? Lets say, for the sake of

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… Things have been a bit lax around here of late. I’ve been doing some travelling before I get into long working hours later this month, and also been spending some time setting up my new webserver at www.steeletech.info … its still under construction, so for the next week or two, you may find it acting weird, but eventually it will be the final new home of this blog, under my complete control

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Modern Mechanix » 1977: Bally Home Library Computer - Early E-Commerce This is one of my absolute favorite ‘geek’ blogs. Popular Science, Popular Mechics, Scientific American, National Geopgraphic, all have a long history of publishing interesting information about the future. In fact, they still are. But looking back on some of the articles and pictures they’ve run is wonderfully instructive,

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Subjective Reality Just wanted to give a "shout-out" to a friend's blog. She's on my blogroll, and has been since I started this thing, but I just wanted to write a little about why I like her blog so much. Start with the Anais Nin quote in her sub-heading, and you'll have a good idea of the vision I find compelling in this blog. I love the writing she does, but mostly, I find her choice of

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On one of my Yahoo groups over the past few days, we've been discussing issues of faith and science, and I think the discussion has been good so I wanted to post it here . It began with the following quote … "Some people believe in faith, some people believe in science, which do you believe?" "anitsirhc" wrote: ah But John Locke was wrong. Some people…believe in both…andscience imo, is a faith

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CBC News: Killing will spark revenge: father of beheaded AmericanIf anyone in the world has reason to celebrate the death of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, surely Michael Berg is high on the list of names. His son Nicholus was one of the very public be-headings attributed to Zarqawi in 2004, and there are few greater tragedies any person can live through than losing a child. When it happens in such a

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shirt - Up Up Super Eagles Originally uploaded by Elron6900. There are few examples of truly global gatherings, where the entire world not only takes part, but stops and watches as well. Every sport has its 'world championships' but in many cases, those words are more fraud than reality. Take things like the World Series of Baseball, between two American teams in an all North American league.

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5-cowrie-creek-view-03-fiki-closeup Originally uploaded by Elron6900. This is a shot of the original Fiki Bar … this version was demolished in 96 or 97 and rebuilt, and while I always had structural questions about Fiki's, I must admit to a certain nostalgia for the original straw and wood shack on stilts. On the left corner, you can see a darker section … its seperate rooms off the edge of the

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9 Chickweed Lane Over the past few years, this has developed into one of my favorite comic strips. From the perspective of a single, middle-aged guy with no kids, the choice of a strip whose main characters are a single, university professor mother raising a ballerina daughter might seem a bit odd, a bit hard for me to relate. Thorax is certainly one of the characters I relate to. More than any

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http://elronsviewfromtheedge.wordpress.com/2006/06/08/canadian-muslim-leaders-call-for-summit/Just listening to a press conference on CBC Newsworld with leaders from CAIR-CAN … the Canadian Council on American Islamic Affairs, and they are calling on provincial and Federal governments to hold a summit on extremism in their community, and to help address those extremists in their midst's. This

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One of the details emerging from the bail hearings held yesterday for 15 of the 17 people charged in the recent terrorist sting here is a bit disturbing. Yesterday's bail hearing's were postponed, essentially because defence lawyers had been given no time to confer with clients, and very limited information on the specifics of the charges against their clients. Several lawyers for defendants

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Tonight the CBC ran a documentary that I mentioned in a recent post, about a rising backlash against Muslim immigrants in places like Holland and the UK. Mark Kelley did a very thorough job of looking at both sides of the issue, talking with a variety of politicians and regular people. Ultimately, it provided a lot to think about with regards to how we deal with other cultures. The trouble, it

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Usually, I'm more interested in in-depth arguments than one-liners, but there are times when a thought is expressed so eloquently that all necessary argumentation is done in just a few simple words. If they don't convince you of their truth, they at least make you think deeply about the issues involved. On my google page, one of the modules pulls up 4 new quotes everyday, from The Quotations

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I've been holding off writing about this, waiting for more information to come out. About the only thing I am certain of at the moment is that we don't know a lot of details, and that more details will emerge in the weeks and months to come. For now, 12 adults and 5 youths are under arrest on a variety of security and terrorism related offences, though current indications are that there may

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03Jun2006-Trip 020 Originally uploaded by Elron6900. This is another shot I took at the Brooks reststop. Kind of an odd angle, but I was laying on my stomach reaching into a garden to try and get it, lol.

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Sometimes, we let musical genre's define how we look at the people who listen to that music. We look at heavy metal, and see long-haired druggie headbangers who can't string two coherent words together. We hear country music, and sometimes, we think right-wing redneck. The Dixie Chicks have always defied those lines. Never really a strict country act that played by the Nashville rules,

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03Jun2006-Trip 012 Originally uploaded by Elron6900. I took this picture yesterday, in the playground at the rest stop at Brooks. It was just kind of a whim when I saw the slide, but I kinda like how the refections turned out.

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King Kaufman's Sports Daily | Salon.com Its nice to see hockey getting a little bit more credit as the Stanley Cup finals are about to start. I'd like to add some comment on Kaufmann's discussion of Bufaloe's delay of game penalty for shooting the puck over the glass. Contrary to what Kaufman says, thats never an accidental thing, unless a richocete is involved. These are professional

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I had a comment posted to my other blog today that I think I want to share with everyone as a post. As far as I can tell, its spam as posted. It was posted as a comment to my blog post titled George Stroumboulopoulos on Stephen Harper … from the Hour - the Redux, but it really has nothing to do with the subject of that post. However, when I read through it, its actually an interesting message.

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20May2006-MedHat 029 Originally uploaded by Elron6900. I took this shot a week or so in downtown Medicine Hat. Can't recall exactly which building it is (one of the brick ones on 6th Ave SW), but I loved the rather obvious grafitti, lol. Pretty boring picture, perhaps … but for some reason it speaks to me.

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globeandmail.com : Iran cool to conditions on U.S. nuclear talks offer Any talks between Iran and the US should be seen as a positive step, but I fear this latest announcement of talks is little more than a smokescreen. If it actually results in Iranian and American officials sitting across a table from each other, then its a positive, but looking at the porposal, I find it hard to understand how

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Its a bit surprising as I look back over this blog that I've made nearly 130 posts over a couple of months, and I've yet to make a post about Star Trek. I suppose the fact that Enterprise went off the air last year has something to do with it … for the first time in more than 20 years, there's no active Star Trek TV series in production, so there's little new to talk about. But its still an

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Lagos-Street-02 ol Originally uploaded by Elron6900. This is the pregnant goat. I was in Lagos, worling on this street for 5 years, and this goat was pregnant essentially the entire time. I never really did work out who owned her, or where all the baby goats went ... not too sure I want to delve too deeply there, lol. When I took this, I had just arrived in Lagos, and was taking shots of

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Stephen Harper announced some fairly serious democratic reform today. Its unclear yet how much of this will actually be implemented on the ground, and its unclear whether Harper even has the right to do what he has done without some sort of Provincial assent, especially on Senate terms and elections, but he's put out some pretty heady ideas. Several provinces already have some form of fixed

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chomsky.info : The Noam Chomsky Website There are few living people I admire more, intellectually, than Noam Chomsky. If you are looking for a pair of eyes to cut through all the crap, all the window dressing, all the trappings of power and intrigue, Chomsky’s vision is about as sharp as they come. I was first exposed to Chomsky years ago through his documentary “Manufacturing Consent.” Its a

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TorontoSun.com - Eric Margolis - Final act in the death of Yugoslavia As people who know me personally know, I am a voracious newspaper reader. I read at least 2 newspapers on most days … The Globe and Mail, and the Calgary Sun. One of the reasons I love the Sun is its easy to read format … unlike the big broadsheet format papers, the tabloid Sun is easy to handle. That format spills over into

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Imagine going into a meeting with colleagues on Monday morning, where you work, and responding to a question about your work by ignoring the questioner and looking to someone else in the meeting, or worse yet, by getting up and walking out, declaring that your colleagues are out to get you. Imagine going into a meeting with clients on Monday morning, to discuss a new initiative your company is

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This will probably be my last 'old' poem, at least for now. I think this is the last one I wrote in my poetry period in the late 90's, and I believe I've already posted all the others. So any of you here for the poetry will just have to wait for new inspiration after this one, lol. Though, I suspect if you're here for the poetry, you're not here anyway . Regardless, enjoy … GenXby Lyle Bateman

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WWdN: In Exile Just wanted to give a shout out to something I stumbled across today. I must say, among other things, its thanx to Wil that I have a geek code. Go have a look at some of his stuff … he's an excellent actor, but he's also a pretty good writer and damn good geek in his own right. What's a Geek Code you say? Well, if you've received an email from me, then its the cryptic looking stuff

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CBC News - The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulous Just a quick shout out for the new web page. Its a cool design I think … lots more info. I gotta admit to being a tad disappointed that my link came down, but such is life, lol … was cool to get the traffic from there as long as I did. Besides, with any luck, they are just linking up to my new address soon, lol … anyway, its a nice new design,

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winnipegsun.com - Charles Adler - Code critics served up humble pie This column appeared in yesterday's Sun newspapers, and it highlights one of the arguments about the da Vinci Code, and Jesus in general from 'mainstream' Christians, that has always mystified me. Adler details very articulately the traditional Christian view of Jesus as pure and non-sinner … it is this purity that allows Jesus'

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http://www.cbc.ca/thehour/ Last night George closed off the show (and for the record George, I was one of your 2 viewers that wasn't watching Idol or hockey for the live broadcast, lol) with discussion of a new idea by Ticketmaster to auction off seats for concerts, regardless of the face value of the ticket. They say the extra proceeds will be split between the ands, the venues, and, of course,

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Religion: Who Was Mary Magdalene? - Newsweek Society - MSNBC.comAn Inconvenient WomanShe witnessed the resurrection, then vanished, leaving popes and painters and now 'The Da Vinci Code' to tell her story. In search of the real Mary Magdalene. A friend posted this to one of my groups this morning, and I wanted to share some comments. Mary has always been one of the most interesting characters to

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Satyagraha - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaSatyagrahaFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Over the weekend I caught a program I've seen many times before, on the Biography Channel, the biography of Mohandas K Gandhi. I've always admired Gandhi … the main reason for that is that he brought practical use to the philosophy of pacifism, or more precisely, of peaceful disobedience. "Christ gave me

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There's a columnist in the Calgary Sun that I read all the time, but rarely comment on. He tends to write on issues that don't fire me up with passion, but in some ways, its his calm, logical, matter-of-fact writing style that makes him easier to overlook. For me, I find I often read his stuff and go away thinking "Well, of course … that makes perfect sense." Bill Kaufmann also usually covers

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CBC.ca - Program Guide - The Story of GodSunday, May 21, 2006, 8:00 p.m. ETLife, the Universe and Everything I caught the first part of what looks to be an interesting new series on Newsworld tonight, The Story of God. Prof Robert Winston is exploring the history of religion in humans, over three parts, and part one tonight was an interesting look at 'polytheism.' Well, sort of anyway, lol. In

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There are many different things I look for when i listen to music. In some cases, songs or bands I like are for very specific reasons … ZZ Top is perhaps a good example here. If you're drinking beer with your on a sunny Sunday afternoon, and you need some high energy tunes to crank up on the stereo, you can do a lot worse than ZZ Top. Every song they recorded is hard fast-paced, tight, bluesy

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Every so often, one or another of my groups gets into the discussion of science vs religion. And while history shows a great deal of conflict between the two schools of thought, its important to remember that both schools seek to answer the same questions. They do so from different angles … they frame the questions differently … but the essential questions asked are largely the same. Take

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I am considering changing Blog hosts, from Blogger to WordPress. While I've enjoyed the Blogger platform a lot, and found it VERY easy to use in many ways, there have been some limitations that I've been using other tools to work around. One of the key tools that bloggers have are Technorati tags, or catagories, which associate your blog post with various searchable tags. For example, my default

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Tonight's episode was "The End of Print" ... last week he did "The End of TV" ... you get the idea. When I first heard about this idea, I thought "Great, another series predicting the end of stuff." As someone whose spent his life in IT, I've been hearing about the paperless office for 3 decades now and while computers are more integrated into office life than ever before, we are as far from

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With the release of the Da Vinci Code movie last night, we've been talking about the Da Vinci Code 'controversy' for what seems like forever, lol. It seems a pretty logical bet that this current movie, based on the book by Dan Brown, will do well at the box office ... given the sales of the book, movie ticket sales seem to be little more than a formality. I suppose time will tell the real story

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enchufe Originally uploaded by Jonathan Molea. I was a bit taken aback with these at first, lol. They worked pretty well with a grounded plug, but I quickly realized that many things came with non-grounded plugs. When you tried to plug in a non-grounded plug, the two horizontal sockets were blocked ... with a grounded plug, the ground pillar pushes a mechanism that slides back

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Bloomberg.com: Europe:Airbus A380 to Land at London's Heathrow Airport for First TimeThe picture to the right isn't from today, but from an earlier landing in France. Today was the first time I have seen live video of a landing, and take off, and I have to say it looks horribly bulky and off balance. It looks like an amazing plane though ... I still think I like the new airship designs a bit

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CBC.ca - The Hourhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PolygamyI'm usually pretty fond of The Hour, and I usually have praise for the way George handles sides on the stories they run. But tonight, the story on Warren Jeffs and 'polygamy' kinda got under my skin, lol.In general, Warren Jeffs gets under my skin, and especially so when he, or his ilk in Bountiful, start a discussion on the legality of '

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globeandmail.com : Tories black out details of Dingwall resignationThere's a friend of mine in Ontario who's been saying "I told you so" ever since I started whining about Stephen Harper's appointments of unelected Senators, and his acceptance of floor crossers in the name of political expediency. Since that time, she's had occasion to say it a few times, not least over the recent Tory

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War Room - Salon.comFor people who don't understand why the NSA database is such an issue, this presents a classic example. Its now suggested that the government is tracking the calls of reporters in order to identify confidential sources in leak investigations. No matter how you define the terms, that use does NOT fall under 'detecting patterns of behaviour among terrorists' nor does it meet

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I scanned in some pictures form one of my favorite places while I was in Lagos a few days ago, posted on my flickr account. To the right is a scan of my original ticket, from my first visit to the club. Jazz 38 became a regular and common refuge from the insanity of trying to run a 24/7 computer room in Lagos, Nigeria. The N50 price was less than $1US, and once inside the club, local beer

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PBS | I, Cringely . May 4, 2006 - Killer Apps"Google, Intel, Microsoft, and Yahoo" are his four companies to define the future of the computer. Unfortunately, he forgot the big one, although most people do. There is a software company out there that supplies code for practically every single mission-critical application on earth. Go to any continent, and find a huge business whose function

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TorontoSun.com - Commentary - EDITORIAL: The right to judge judges:For the love of God, can we please end this hysterical over-reaction to innocuous remarks by a Conservative MP about judges seeing themselves as gods?There certainly is a lot of frothing over the resignation of Maurice Vellacott from his duties as chair of aboriginal affairs. This editorial from the Toronto Sun says he shouldn't

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pia08118-320-cc.mov (video/quicktime Object)Well, I am gonna geek out on everyone this morning, lol. I've just seen some new images from the Cassini probe in the Saturn system. The link above is a movie of the descent of the Huygens probe when it landed on Titan last year, and it blew me away.Maybe this is just the space geek in me talking, but watching the descent over an alien planet was truly

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Lagos-street-01-ol Originally uploaded by Elron6900. This is a fairly typical street scene from Victoria Island in Lagos In part, I took the shot to show the kind of traffic we dealt with on a regular basis, but the "Battle of the Gods" sign in the background was the secondary reason, lol.That was one of those things that was uniquely Lagos. It advertised an evangelical revival, a

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War Room - Salon.com: "The separation of powers, R.I.P."While this issue doesn't affect me directly, as I am not an American citizen, its still worth making note of, IMO. And as the global IT infrastructure becomes more and more homogeneous, we have to remember that its not just American calls going through those massive switching rooms in US Telcos.I first wrote about this issue a couple of

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Bush says Jeb would make a great president -- Newsday.com: "Bush says Jeb would make a great president"Well, this is hardly surprising ... i was wondering how long it would take, lol. What worries me about this (and about Hillary for that matter) is the recent moce toward imperial dynasties.Of course, W is the second Bush to hold the job in recent years, and much is being made of Hillary's

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These photos were taken in 1993, a few miles outside of the Victoria Island subdivision I lived and worked in, at a market/townsite called Illusan. I've got some examples of the masks that I brought back with, but its really hard to convey what it was like to go to the market. I recently dug out a journal I was keeping at the time, and I actually made an entry about going to the market that day

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Its an unusual news show that can do a week of highlights from old shows, and not only get away with it, but turn it into interesting new shows that offer different insight on stories told under different light, with different angles. Of course, The Hour is not your average news show, as I've mentioned in the past, lol.This week really is a week of repeats for George and the Hour, but its really

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kutv.com - Polyamory: A Twist On Polygamy: "Polyamory: A Twist On Polygamy"This was a pretty good, if short, article about the other side of Polygamy. Usually, when we hear about multiple relationships on the news, or anywhere in our normal lives, its to do with communities where women are forced into multiple marriages, communities like Colorado City and Bountiful, BC. Such arrangements are

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Flickr: Photos from Elron6900Just wanted to make a quick post to say my flickr account just cracked 200 views. I'm trying to add photos as I take them, as well as catch up on my old stuff as I find them. As well, I plan to use it as a repository of photos when I travel ... between flickr and here, the two will form a sort of travel-blog for me.And speaking of travel, I have some ideas for this

Elronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16553303922522339754noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24785946.post-1147193492006936542006-05-09T09:32:00.000-07:002006-05-09T10:42:01.446-07:00

http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=1939522&page=1http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?click_id=3&amp;art_id=qw1147122724786B265&set_id=http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/1184143F-7D33-4562-89F4-BCC2B18D6117.htmI'll be interested to see the contents of this letter, assuming its ever released. There's an angle I haven't heard yet that I think should be pointed out, dealing with Islam.

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This is something I wrote today, in my head while driving. I was listening to one of my favorite ecclectic bands, the Crash Test Dummies. The title song from Ghosts that Haunt Me has always been a personal favorite of mine ... but I suddenly asked myself, what if we never did "shake their bony hands and so dispell the gloom ..."?Hence, the poem below, lol ...Identity Theftby Lyle BatemanWhat

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FBI detains, releases foreign passengers on US airliner - Yahoo! News: "FBI detains, releases foreign passengers on US airliner"Well, at least these guys weren't shot for suspicious activity. At least they were still alive to be released later when it was discovered that they were legitimate. I suppose, that's a plus for security operations after the London tube shooting and the guy on the

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George led off the Hour last night with a segment on net neutrality. This is a buzz-phrase of late, but I wonder if its as important as people are making it out to be. If you want to do some independent reading, ZDNet has a pro and con blog posted, and Wikipedia has a good article posted about some of the basic concepts involved. But there's some basic architecture and history issues that I

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This week has been somewhat remarkable for the concept of speaking truth to power, though its a bit difficult to tell from watching media outlets like CNN or US network news. Last night on the Hour, George did a bit on a fellow named Ray McGovern, a former CIA analyst who challenged Rummsfeld publicly on specific statements he's made in the past at a press conference recently. There's been some

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There are times when words are simply insufficient to truly describe something. The title "Puppets Who Kill" is such literal truth in advertising that its hard to visualize it without actually watching an episode or two. It seems too absurd for words, and, in fact, it is ... yet its one of the most original and funniest shows around.Imagine a half-way house for criminal puppets. The Bill

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Performancing Metrics:Technorati tags: metrics performance blog hits postsI've been using a metrics service for this blog recently, and its been interesting to see what posts get read, and when. Last week, I posted a poem called "The Other Day," something that I wrote several years ago. Up until today, it got very few page views, and suddenly, today, its the most popular page on thing on the

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The Fool and the Knave | Salon.com:The Fool and the KnaveStatus-obsessed D.C. journalists tut-tutted at Stephen Colbert's irreverent performance -- ignoring Bush's war against their profession.By Sidney BlumenthalTechnorati tags: colbert salonBlumenthal adds fuel to the people telling critics of Colbert to wake up. This article is mostly discussing the icy reception the Colbert skit is getting

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This an excellent and fairly exhaustive litany of offences committed by the Mainstream Media (MSM from here on out) after 9/11 and in the run up to the war in Iraq. Laid out in this detail, it seems to me a pretty damning indictment of how the media handled intelligence claims before the war, and the very reporting of dissenting voices.Perhaps the telling moment for me is the Oct 2004 peace

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Who's buying cell records online? Cops - Security - MSNBC.comWho's buying cell phone records online? Cops Net sellers tell Congress they supply law enforcement officials with call lists This was a fascinating article. Recently, it came out that various companies were selling call records from US cell phones (I am unsure if this applies in Canada, but so far, I've heard nothing to suggest that

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A lot has been made of the fact that Steven Colbert wasn't funny in his Press Corps speech from this past Saturday. Check out the video here ... http://www.salon.com/ent/video_dog/politics/2006/04/30/colbert_press/ ... he played the show 'in character' and frankly, in case people haven't noticed over his time on The Daily Show, and now the Colbert Report, a lot of his characters are

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On any given hit, you get 8 of the most amazing photos you've ever seen, and more links to others. I'll warn in advance ... I've found this page to be highly addictive. Whether I am looking at the calendar mode, checking out interesting sets, exploring the photo groups, or even seeing interesting photos from the last 7 days I've often spent more time than I should going through these

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Poll Shows Many Can‘t Find La. on Map Poll Shows Many Can‘t Find La. on MapStaff and agencies02 May, 2006By RANDOLPH E. SCHMID, Associated Press Writer 25 minutes agoThis is an article that I've been discussing on New Continuum recently.  There's been some very good comment, IMO, and I'd liek to share it here I think ...My Friend EdB responded with ...The biggest problem in Education in USA

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As I said yesterday, the Astro pic of the day has some mind-blowing shots. This is another example of the kind of photo I am talking about ... maybe its just cause I am a space geek, but stuff like this takes my breath away when I see. Amazing ...Astronomy Picture of the DaySee Explanation. Clicking on the picture will download the highest resolution version available.

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When my Firefox starts up, and when I click the "Home Page" button, the page it goes to is Astronomy Picture of the Day. This website shows a different picture every day, somehow related to astronomy. Today's image is of the giant nuclear plant that powers all life on earth. In the debate over alternative vs fossil fuels on earth, its important to remember that with the Sun's fusion, without

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This is perhaps the ultimate geek shirt/image for me.  If ever I need perspective, need to be reminded of the true place in the universe we offer, I find this image gives me the starkest reminder. ThinkGeek :: Tshirts :: Science You Are Here You Are HereIn case the vastness of the expanding universe gets you going in the wrong direction...

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Here are some shirts I can definately relate to.  This PEBKAC one is one of my faves, and there are a few other I love as well.  Check these folks out ... if you have a geek in your life, these guys have a shirt they will they LOVE, lol.  This one is my pick ... For the record, PEBKAC is a technical term that stands for ... "Problem Exists Between Keyboard and Chair" ThinkGeek :

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Stonehenge at Dusk Originally uploaded by Elron6900. This is another shot I took on my trip to UK in 2003. I did love the way the colours played in the background of the stones. I think a slightly longer exposure might have been better here, but I didn't actually have a tripod on this one ... if memory serves, I was manually stabalizing the camera using a chain-link fence. However, I do

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Steel Blue Sky Originally uploaded by Elron6900. This is one of the communications towers I work with. I lay on my back for this one, looking straught up, and I'll have you know that new prairie grass this time of year is VERY sharp. By the time I actually took this shot, my back was killing me. It was a beautiful day, though. For the record, the tower is 100m tall.

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This is another poem I pulled out of my files.  As always, I am interested in comments ... hope you enjoy :)The Cyclotronby Lyle Bateman When the light fades from the day, I wander through the gothic arches and steel-glass hallways of my mind to find whatever is there. A butterfly flutters on cellophane wings through a joust of opposing ideas on a white horse, Death comes riding to meet Pan's

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CBC.ca - The Hour Elron, on the Closer about ID cardsI was pretty stoked to see this last week, lol.  I've been writing a fair bit about The Hour, and I was thrilled to see that George linked to one of my blog posts.  Not too much more to say about it, except another recomendation for everyone to watch The Hour.  I've apparently been watching it on repeat too ... I guess its on Newsworld at 8PM

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Performancing.com | Helping Bloggers SucceedI am testing some new software to track metrics on my blog, and they also have an interesting posting Firefox extension that I am making this post in.  So far, it seems like a really slick system ... the metrics have quite a few useful, blogger specific bits of data, and the Firefox extension seems to add some nice functionality.  Dunno if I'll always

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