Now, the background story to the following picture is perfect. Just so you know it’s the conservative party, and it is from the May 23rd 2005 issue of Maclean’s. Now, I have to say this much about it, if there was ever a picture which personified exactly what I think every member of the conservative party acts like and behaves, and why even with this scandal there should be no possible chance of them ever running our government as they are, it is this picture. Without further ado, ladies and gentlemen… here is your conservative party of Canada:

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see: http://www.iqc.ca/people/kjrose/

I have theoretically been working there for a while, but there is something nice and reassuring seeing my name up there on the people at the IQC site.

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I almost always have this running now, it’s great, and generally quite useful to see what is actually going on in government at any one time. It’s available at: http://cpac.ca/forms/index.asp?dsp=template&act=view3&template_id=22〈=e For example, I just saw that the C-45 bill got passed by senate finally, which is really good news for our veterans.

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Read: http://www.wkyc.com/news/news_fullstory.asp?id=34727

Well, at least I agree on one thing with this new pope. Long story short, he’s a german pope, who enjoys his beer, and endorses it.

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With their scheming and plotting the demise of Canada:

For someone who does not support seperatists, he looks awfully cuddly with them.

Picture from: http://www.cbc.ca/story/canada/national/2005/05/10/confidence-government050510.html

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See: http://kittenbreak.com

Everyone needs a kitten break at one time or another

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Well, for those of you I have not told about it yet, here is my project that’s been absorbing lots of my time and giving me the opportunity to learn how to use the graphics functionalities in PHP: http://pollingreport.ca . Basically, it is a live up to date site that will track the current political and social issue opinions in Canada by conglomerating all of the polls that I can find in a hopefully easy to read manner.

It’s still under heavy construction, but I seem to add a new feature or two every day or so. So, keep your eyes out on it. And yes, the National Situation poll and my favourite part so far (http://www.pollingreport.ca/nationsituationline.php) the live polling line graph do get updated on a daily basis.

If you have any suggestions for features that you’d like to see there that would be fun to implement, let me know. No suggestion is too difficult or crazy. For example, I’m currently working on a live map for the country that will show (By coloring it) what the current seat distribution is by party.

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read: http://www.ic.gc.ca/cmb/welcomeic.nsf/261ce500dfcd7259852564820068dc6d/85256a5d006b972085256fcd0078718c!OpenDocument and http://p2pnet.net/story/4707

The American government apparently has finally "brought its big guns to bear in a further effort to force the tottering Canadian government to change its copyright laws to better suit US interests" Apparently the fact that we pay a surcharge on every form of writable media is not enough for them. Now they want the same copyright laws as have been shown to be horribly ineffective and generally make victims of thousands of people in the States.

An interesting point in the first one is under ISP liability: "A "notice and notice" regime in relation to the hosting and file-sharing activities of an ISP’s subscribers would be provided for. When an ISP receives notice from a rights holder that one of its subscribers is allegedly hosting or sharing infringing material, the ISP would be required to forward the notice to the subscriber, and to keep a record of relevant information for a specified time."

Apparently privacy is not a consideration when there is a $15 CD that could be sold.

Other proposed amendments: "the alteration or removal of rights management information (RMI) embedded in copyright material, when done to further or conceal infringement, would constitute an infringement of copyright;"

Apparently paying these companies for writable media is not enough, now they want to start an assault on dvd burning software makers, and so on.

Now, what am I going to do about this, well I am planning on letting my MP know by emailing them, calling their constituency office, and if necessary writing them again. Especially since this is likely going to be an election season, if the government feels there is significant public outrage against these amendments, they will likely not go through.

As well, try to get the word out. I am fairly certain that if most Canadians know about these amendments and what they imply they will write and call as well.

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Well, I finally have decided to crack up and state it once and for all. Dreamhost (http://www.dreamhost.com/rewards.cgi?kjrose) is, in my opinion, the best hosting service for almost any personal or small business hosting needs. They just offered triple disk space and bandwidth forever, and are constantly upgrading my purchased plan so even when I get worried about disk space, etc. They seem to already have resolved the problem. Their plans (http://www.dreamhost.com/shared/comparison.html) are cheap enough for a personal website, or small company, and yet powerful enough to handle any hosting needs anyone would need.

As well, they have great dedicated hosting prices as well if that is your cup of tea. They’ve always responded promptly and politely to any of my support requests, and overall they are just amazing. (And I should know a good hosting service when I see one, considering I’ve been buying hosting all the way back to 1997.)

So yeah, I do not mean to give an advert for Dreamhost or anything, it’s just they have blown me away recently with some add-ons and features, and well… yeah. I think they deserve a little bit of praise.

Go to http://dreamhost.com and check it out, if you purchase anything and you want to be nice, tell them 1337hax0r.com sent you.

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See: http://www.secway.fr/products/simplite_msn/home.php?PARAM=us,ie

I’ve now officially been using this for a week, and have encountered no problems with it. After looking at how the protocol works (I have not reverse engineered the code itself though), it seems that everything is in order, and this is a fantastic way to encrypt your MSN traffic from point to point.

I think everyone who uses MSN or Trillian’s MSN should use this client. That is, of course, until I hear of any significant problems that anyone has with it. I have had no problems whatsoever, and it works like a charm.

Just a note,

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