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Archive for February, 2005

26 Feb

We’re Back

After a week off due to birthdays (mine and Kimmi’s 19th), anniversary (26 great years), homework ( 3 tests and 3 assignments with an average of over 97%), GPC meetings (I am a council member of the Green Party of Canada), meetings for the Inuvik education plan and server upgrades (thanks to Mastermaq and Dickson) [...]

16 Feb

February 16th, 2005. The Start of the Kyoto Accord?

February 16th is a great day. Many noteworthy things have happened on this day.
In 1804 U.S. frigate Philadelphia, captured and held by Barbary pirates at Tripoli during the Tripolitan War, was set fire to and destroyed by a small group of men led by Stephen Decatur. 1838 saw the birth of American writer and historian [...]

15 Feb

And Now the Federal Government

First it was the GNWT and the fiasco with their computer systems, Now Auditor General Sheila Fraser has come out with her 2005 report that says the information systems of the Government of Canada are vulnerable to attack.
I really can’t understand in this day and age how the Government of Canada has allowed its information [...]

15 Feb

Yo Dude, This is Copyrighted!!!

I was checking some of my statistics today and I noticed a site that had sent a small number of hits my way. Interested in who this is I decided to check it out. Guess what I found? Take a look at my site. Got it? Good, now go to this guy’s site.
Notice anything the [...]

13 Feb

Whose Job is That?

Sometime during the weekend of February 5th and 6th the computer systems of the Government of the Northwest Territories (GNWT) crashed. On Friday February 11th the systems were still not fully restored. What gives?
Why has it taken a week to have their systems back up and running? Friday the 11th was payday for the government [...]

11 Feb

We Must Be Less Liberal

It appears that Canada needs to be less Liberal on 2 fronts. The first is obvious. After the adscam scandal and the fact that both of the main Liberals, Jean Chretien and Paul Martin, have testified in court that they don’t remember signing the cheques or approving the expenditures of a quarter billion dollars to [...]

06 Feb

To Build, or not To Build: That is the Question

There was an article posted by CBC North on Friday, February 4, 2005 that talks about the daycare and how it is going to have no place to go in 1½ years time. The daycare estimates they will need to raise $1,000,000 to build an addition to the new school. How the heck are they [...]

06 Feb

To Build, or not To Build: That is the Question

There was an article posted by CBC North on Friday, February 4, 2005 that talks about the daycare and how it is going to have no place to go in 1½ years time. The daycare estimates they will need to raise $1,000,000 to build an addition to the new school. How the heck are they [...]

02 Feb

That’s Just Nasty

Have you ever sat back and wondered what it was that you were putting in your mouth when you eat? No, neither did I. That is until last Saturday when I bought one of those George Foreman’s Lean Mean Grilling Machines.
I bought it because I had heard about how easy the machine was to make [...]

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