This week, Industry minister Jim Prentice introduced Bill C-61 which contains amendments to Canada’s Copyright Act with the intention of updating the current law to take into account the widespread adoption and use of new digital media such as iPods and and other portable digital media devices.
Format shifting to be made legal
One of the major [...]
The leader maker of hybrid vehicles with its Prius, Toyota made a surprise announcement and revealed that they will offer a Plug-In Hybrid by 2010. Toyota is claiming that the vehicle will use Lithium-Ion batteries instead of the less efficient nickel-metal hydride batteries currently being used in the Prius.
Current prototypes
The current plug-in hybrid prototype [...]
Although no longer classified as a hurricane but a post-tropical storm, Noel is headed for the Maritimes and headed my way.
It has been raining since 5 o’clock and the wind has really picked since 7 o’clock. The forecast is calling for up to 100 mm of rain and winds up to 120 km/h which [...]
Instantiations have released version 6.5.0 of WindowBuilder Pro their Eclipse based Java GUI builder. The new & noteworthy page describes some of the improvements available in this new version.
WindowBuilder Pro supports not only standard Swing GUIs but Eclipse’s Standard Widget Toolkit (SWT) and Google’s Web Toolkit (GWT).
One of my favourite features of WindowBuilder’s [...]
In Atlantic Canada, there is only one federally inspected beef plant Atlantic Beef Products which is located in Albany, PEI. Unfortunately, the processing plant has lost over $10 million over the last three years since it was opened and is in danger of closing after the PEI government announced that it will no longer cover [...]
After holding the title of the tallest free standing structure for over 30 years, the CN Tower in Toronto has lost its moniker to the Burj Dubai tower which now stand 2 metres taller than the CN Tower which stands at 553 metres. When completed the Burj Dubai will top a whopping 800 metres high [...]
Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) which is Canada’s health research granting agency, has released a new policy which mandates that the research that it funds must be made open to the public. The policy states that as soon as possible after publication, peer-reviewed research papers must be made publicly available. There [...]
How much can you trust articles on wikipedia? For that matter, how much can you trust other sources of information?
This article (Wikipedia and the Intelligence Services - OhmyNews International) describes signs that suggest intelligence agencies may be placing mis-information on Wikipedia and it also has a bit of a historical perspective on previous mis-information [...]
According to the US department of energy, Canada is listed as the worlds 15th largest net exporter of oil.
You would think that since we are such a large exporter of oil that we wouldn’t need imports to satisfy our oil needs. Unfortunately that isn’t the case. A large portion of the eastern half [...]
Over the past couple of days, I have experienced a couple of incidents of downtime.
First on Friday, my DNS resolution stopped working. Very strange, I thought. It turns out that my secondary DNS had gone down and a change on my firewall was blocking UDP DNS traffic so no resolution could occur.
Then Friday [...]
