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I'm not going to be able to blog for a while. I'm leaving the site up so people can see my archives, but I won't be posting regularly any more.

Finished moving and whatnot, and the internet is now working. I should be able to update more regularly now.I am struck at the inanity of moving day in Quebec. Many people have leases stuck in a July 1st cycle- this is due to the fact that in 1973, the government decided to set all leases to end on Canada day. For the children... not politics, the children.It kind of makes sense for the time. It meant that instead of anglos celebrating on Canada day, they would move.

Hi all, I'm moving and have not had much time to keep my loyal reader(s?) occupied- I promise I'll be back soon :)

Have you ever been partied at? You know, when your roommate decides to have a kegger with precisely the subset of his friends that you have nothing in common with? You sit there, unable to do anything except weather the party?I live and work downtown, and my life has turned into one big, involuntary party. I can't walk to lunch without being offered some sort of Grand Prix marketing giveaway, having my eardrums assaulted by some sort of DJ, or tripping over the ridiculous ...

Partnerup is a website advertising that they are "the best way to network with other entrepreneurs and businesspeople, get involved in businesses, find the people and resources that you need for your company or idea, and seek advice on starting and building a company"It's an amazing idea, but it still needs some work. My experience so far has been that I had to fudge the signup page to allow me to continue because Montreal is apparently not a real city. When I was trying t...

The Penumbra Institute is an environmental think tank. They looked over the Conservative party's "made in Canada" environmental plan, and according to CTV news, found it to be "riddled with loopholes, especially ones favouring the oil industry".You know when you witness a terrible accident, sometimes it's like time slows down and you see the carnage in horrific slow motion? I'm getting that feeling right now about the Conservatives. They are going to march themselves right...

http://www.neutrality.ca/ is back up. It's a good site to read about net neutrality from Canada's perspective. From the site:By protecting Net Neutrality, we guarantee that pro-union sites do not get blocked, that ISPs do not charge anti-competitive 'preference' fees and that independent media can compete based on content, not pocketbook, with the largest of publishers.That's a good overview of what we will lose if the government lets ISPs decide whose traffic is more impo...

According to Stephen Harper, Canada needs to be held to a different standard than the rest of the G8 when it comes to the environment. Why? Because of our "growing economy, population, and oil industry".Huh? we need special consideration in terms of reducing greenhouse gases because we produce lots of them for money?I have come to grudgingly respect the Conservative government since they took over. I would say that they generally know what they have to do to properly repre...

$950 million in tax cuts for the "middle class"? Come on. Charest should take a close look at the polls some day... the reason they are a minority government is that people are tired of seeing our tax money mismanaged. We have a great opportunity here with the federal government's transfer payment. It's a waste to use it to lower taxes: the bottom dollar for your average person does not change enough to justify the health and education problems we've had to go through whil...

It's called Open XML. Microsoft created it and Canada's considering adopting it. The problem is that "Microsoft is attempting to achieve ISO standardization of a proprietary format in order to prevent the widespread adoption of the OpenDocument format, which could threaten the dominance of Microsoft's own Office suite" (Wikipedia link)Why is this important? OpenDocument format is simpler and better, and it's non-proprietary. It would allow you to edit and view documents wi...