This Christmas season I’ve noticed a greater than usual interest in the wording of festive greetings. Some Christians are outraged when they hear Happy Holidays and some non-Christians are offended when they hear Merry Christmas!
People are lamenting the commercialization of Christmas and are complaining that things aren’t like they used to be. They […]
Check out this awesome photo taken during last Friday’s snowstorm by one of the members of the “OC Transpo BUS FAN CLUB” group on Yahoo (click for a larger image).
The photo shows 5 buses stranded around the intersection in Gatineau. It turns out that the low-floor articulated (long accordion-style) buses don’t work too […]
In North America software is a patentable entity. This means that software companies are forced to waste countless resources and legal fees in the pursuit and protection of patents. I don’t blame the companies for this — I blame the policy makers! The idea of patenting software is absurd at best and […]
It is election time in Canada. Until a few days ago, the federal government was run by the Liberal party and the seats in the House of Commons were populated as follows:
Liberal Party
133
Conservative Party
98
Bloc Quebecois
53
New Democratic Party
18
Independent
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