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Archive for April, 2008
U.S. Puts India And Thailand On Piracy Watch List For Offering Cheaper Aids Drugs
Sunday, April 27th, 2008
So The U.S. government considers the selfish greed of it’s drug companies to be more important that the health of the world’s citizens. What other conclusion can one draw when you see India and Thailand included on a Piracy watch list, and threatened with possible economic sanctions for their policies of providing generic versions of [...]
Incense, the Olympics and the Dalai Lama
Sunday, April 27th, 2008
Twenty-three days ago I took a flying leap and made a snap decision to pack as much as a could into a big suitcase and move seven hundred kilometres away from my hometown to live in the little mountain town. The reason for my move are many, but it can all be boiled down to [...]
VIP Privileges At the Avril Lavigne Concert Kelowna: Photos
Saturday, April 26th, 2008
I admit it, I am not really an Avril Lavigne fan. I don’t dislike her, but I am not exactly in her demographic. So you may wonder how it was that I ended up at the VIP meet and greet session in Kelowna. And the answer is simple. My girlfriend bought the tickets for [...]
A Microsoft Yahoo! Merger? Let It Happen Already!
Saturday, April 26th, 2008
Often the prospect of two giant companies merging causes me heart to beat rapidly with a sort of quiet rage. Generally this is because I either know I will be directly harmed by the reduced competition (as in the case of the Rogers takeover of Fido, I actually felt pain as my beloved Fido ceased [...]
Why I think Windows Live Should Die
Thursday, April 24th, 2008
I am writing this using Windows Live Writer, a program which I consider to be a bit of an anomaly. It’s an anomaly because unlike most of the other programs in the Windows Live "suite", it’s self contained and behaves itself, and doesn’t try to replace a built in component of Windows Vista. (The other [...]