I made a trip to Japan in late Jan/early Feb. I was only there a week and had to work pretty much the whole time but I managed to get out and do a little sightseeing. Overall I didn’t find Tokyo to be a very pretty city and didn’t get a chance to see outside of it but it was still quite an experience. Here are a few pictures with another 2 dozen on Flickr.
yes, it was that good of a week.
Duncan Stanley Boudreau, born on November 12th at 4pm…good chance that the only thing I post for a while will be pictures of him.
Been pretty slack on pictures lately, only taking things off my camera today that I took in June. Anyway here are a few black and whites that I took in New York in August and Austin, Texas in October
CBC News has learned the Harper government is considering buying nuclear submarines to replace its problem-plagued fleet of diesel-powered subs, all of which are currently awash in red ink and out of service for major repairs.
The four second-hand subs Jean Chrétien’s Liberal government bought from the British navy in 1998 for $750 million were portrayed at the time as the military bargain of the century.
Instead, they have spent almost all of their time in naval repair yards, submerging Canadian taxpayers in an ocean of bills now totalling more than $1 billion and counting.
via Canada may buy nuclear submarines – Politics – CBC News.
“When the California Christian group known as Family Radio predicted the beginning of the end of the world as we know it back in the spring (not for the first time), Harold Camping and his followers splashed dire warnings on billboards around the globe.
But then nothing happened on May 21. There was no rapture and true believers weren’t swept to heaven while everyone else was left waiting to be consumed in the total destruction of Earth by Oct. 21…”
via Friday is new doomsday, Christian radio network says – Canada – CBC News.
“…For quite some time now, Facebook’s user tracking hasn’t been limited to your time on the site: any third-party web site or service that’s connected to Facebook or that uses a Like button is sending over your information, without your explicit permission. However, Winer noticed something mostly overlooked in last week’s Facebook changes: Facebook’s new Open Graph-enabled social web apps all send information to Facebook and can post to your profile or share with your friends whether you want them to or not.
Essentially, by using these apps, just reading an article, listening to a song, or watching a video, you’re sending information to Facebook which can then be automatically shared with your friends or added to your profile, and Facebook doesn’t ask for your permission to do it. Winer’s solution is to simply log out of Facebook when you’re not using it, and avoid clicking Like buttons and tying other services on the web to your Facebook account if you can help it, and he urges Facebook to make its cookies expire, which they currently do not…”
Read the full article at Lifehacker.com.
Nasa and the US Department of Defense are tracking the 35ft spacecraft, the Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite, or (UARS), as it heads towards the planet at five miles per second.
Experts say there is a one-in-3,200 risk of the space junk, which weighs six tons, hitting someone.
Nasa satellite the size of bus ‘could land almost anywhere’ – Telegraph
Jason Koblovsky is a gamer, independent journalist and activist. He’s also the co-founder of the Canadian Gaming Organization, which at first glance seems to be little more than a Facebook page with a couple of hundred supporters.
In the last few weeks, however, Jason and his cohorts have been all over the news for their David-and-Goliath battle with Rogers Internet. Their complaint is that Rogers has been disrupting otherwise legitimate online gameplay, ostensibly in the course of managing traffic on its network – by throttling packets that might have any association with a peer-to-peer network.
Game throttled? Complain about Rogers, but blame the CRTC | Life on the Broadband Internet.
