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Archive for November, 2004
Gagliano a mobster?
November 18th, 2004Canada in the world
November 17th, 2004What should Canada's role in the world be? I just left a lecture on this topic by Jennifer Welsh, author of At Home In The World. Her lecture was good but brief. The discussion, mostly led by professors, centered on Welsh's suggestion that Canada should pursue model citizenship (I'm not entirely sure what she means by model citizenship; reading the book would likely help). We discussed CIDA, defence policy, the myths of multilateralism and middle powermanship, and trade policy. The basic thrust of Welsh's talk was that Canada should re-think its international vocation. Any ideas?
I sent her an e-mail, asking about how demographic trends may affect the policy window (the opportunity to change).
iBook problems
November 16th, 2004I'm posting this entry with my new 1.2Ghz G4 iBook. I have this new computer because my old one crapped out on me (likely a hard disk failure). My old iBook had three significant problems: bad battery, bad logic board and bad hard disk. Thankfully, Scott from Apple Canada sent me a replacement computer.
During the diagnosis/replacement time period, I was without a functioning laptop. Regrettably, this period lasted from 19 October till 16 November (btw, if you sent an e-mail to me during that time, I probably just received it today). Not having a laptop was a big change (for the worse!). I'm glad to have this one. It's faster and cooler than my old computer.
Amazingly, when I launched Mail.app and downloaded my mail, I had 7949 new messages. Holy shit! 6,500 of these were MT comment spam notification e-mails (thank goodness for MT-Blacklist!). A few hundred were uncaught spam e-mail. Another few hundred or so were list e-mails. Two hundred or so were legitimate e-mails.
Anyway, I'm back in action now. No more using Windows computers! And thanks, Apple, for doing the right thing. Seriously.
