CBC
"The federal [ Longitudinal Labour Force File ] database that some MPs have called "Big Brother" is being dismantled, according to Human Resources Minister Jane Stewart."
Jazz fans take note
Boston's WGBH, has complimented their unbearably flaky QuickTime streaming audio with a more reliable
Media Player audio feed. WGBH is the home of
Eric in the Evening, which is five hours of good solid (well, mostly good -- Eric has a flavour for terrible terrible crooners) jazz, live performances and interviews. Monday - Thursday, 19h00 - 0h00 EST.
Noah Richler bemoans the loss of innocence
"So even in our imaginations, we are no longer cutting Savard-like loops behind the blue lines of our ids, or rushing like Paul Coffey or Larry Robinson, the end to end of our egos. The inveterate emblems of Canadian hockey -- the Prairie defenceman as tough as oak, the French-Canadian speeding down the wing -- have given way to boring and unremarkable, all-purpose American athlete types. Impeccably attired, these media-savvy millionaires (hockey, basketball, baseball -- can you tell the difference?) have even fashionable haircuts." Speaking of which,
where do you go to watch hockey in Rome?Jean-Louis Leroy : Tangram.pm
"is an object-relational mapper. It makes objects persist in relational databases, and provides powerful facilities for retrieving and filtering them. Tangram fully supports object-oriented programming, including polymorphism, multiple inheritance and collections. It does so in an orthogonal fashion, that is, it doesn't require your classes to implement support functions nor inherit from a utility class." Neat, but why is it called Tangram?
I generally like my bank
but it is perpetually staffed by trainees. I've begun to develop elaborate conspiracy theories that this, coupled with the banks network terminals that are slower than a 14.4 Internet connection, is a deliberate strategy on the part of The Suits to drive me to do all my banking online. Once that happens, [they] can simply fire all the tellers and use the money to build more trophy houses on Martha's Vineyard. I'm hardly above using an Instabroke machine, but I think human interaction in our day to day lives is important and, ultimately, enriches us. I remeber Kurt Vonnegut, speaking after the infamous commencement speech brou-haha, saying he preferred going to the post office over sending email. "I met a cop today," he said.
Congratulations go to Macromedia
for making Shockwave 8 the most annoying plug-in install/upgrade to date. That's quite an accomplishment after years of Real * installs. What is especially annoying is that this comes from the same company that pulled off the elegant and invisible Flash plug-in upgrade. What gives? Later that same day, our hero was heard to mutter "I think I hate Lingo almost as much as I hate JavaScript..."