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260K for Kids 30

On the weekend of August 26th and 27th I’ll be doing a fundraiser where I’ll be riding my bicycle 260 kilometers in two days from Toronto to Welland and back. I’ve set a lofty goal to raise $1000 for my Aunt who runs a foster home in the Philippines for kids without parents. She has ...

Stephen Harper sealing his fate 6

Stephen Harper is sealing the fate of his future as Prime Minister of Canada. As the leader of a minority government, he is already walking on a tight rope. With his support for the Israeli response to the Hezbollah kidnapping as a proportionate response, he is losing the support of many Canadians who are against ...

Civilian losses okay, not soldiers 5

Browsing through an Israeli newspaper today, I found an article where Dr. Udi Lebel of Ben-Gurion University points out that Israel is ready to accept civilian losses, but the support for the Israel aggression will deteriorate as more soldiers fall. This logic is different than most conventional wars where it’s the soldier’s duty to fall ...

Israeli attack carefully planned?

The US recently expedited a shipment of precision bombs to Israel as a result of the attacks on Lebanon. The shipment is a result of a multi-million dollar deal that the US made with Israel last year where Israel can “draw on as needed”. In an attempt to show that the US doesn’t favour Israel ...

Inconsiderate ignorance

I have been reading through CNN anchor Anderson Cooper’s blog, and he asked his viewers to share their comments. I couldn’t believe the inconsiderate ignorance of most Americans who responded to his article. In general, most of the respondants seem to think that Israel is “doing the right thing” and all terrorists in the world ...

The Straight Dope

A while back my buddy Tim introduced me to “The Straight Dope“. It’s a newspaper column by Cecil Adams where he answers factual question asked by his readers on ANY topic. Cecil himself is a mysterious person. His website claims he’s the world’s most intelligent human being and he also claims that he’s never had ...

Justified response?

Israel’s death toll: 24 people killed (including 12 civilians) Lebanon’s death toll: ~150 people killed (Mostly civilians, including 7 Canadians vacationing) Entire apartment buildings have been reduced to rubble. Is the IDF trying to use scare tactics to intimidate militant groups? I don’t think it will deter the enemy, it will grow the enemy. Update: ...

Household wind turbines and Sin City 2

In my Internet surfing tonight I came across a Texas-based company called Mag-Wind that has invented a vertical axis wind turbine intended to generate enough power to power a single household, thus creating green energy and eliminating the need for people to rely on supplied electricity. Although I think the principle of this is a ...

Israel attacks Lebanon 6

Israel is going down the path of starting a major war in the Middle East by invading Lebanon in a response to an attack/abduction on Israeli soldiers by the militant group Hezbollah. Israel was already busy on the Palestinian front with invasions as a response to an another soldier abduction last week by a Palistinian ...

Microsoft censures PHP

I was in MSN Messenger today and I attempted to send a link to a coworker with “download.php” in the URL. The MSN message didn’t go through, no error was received, it just didn’t send. So just for fun I changed it to “download.asp” and the message went through properly. So to take it one ...