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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, 2008So 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, 2008Twenty-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, 2008I 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, 2008Often 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, 2008I 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 [...]
Mr. Nimoy, I Find This Video Highly Illogical
Saturday, April 19th, 2008Sometimes you just come across something so insane, so perverse, so incomprehensible that you cannot help but marvel at it. This is one of those times. So why is Leonard Nimoy signing this extremely strange song about the Hobbit Bilbo Baggins? And why does he have Spock hair? What’s with the dance those girls are [...]