First Looks: Apple iPad (16GB/32GB/64GB) - With Full Interface Videos iLounge
Okay, at first I was pretty skeptical, but now the idea of being able to read the web like a book is really intriguing me!!
Click on the above link for great pics ad a review.
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Thursday, January 28, 2010
First Looks: Apple iPad Keyboard Dock | iLounge
First Looks: Apple iPad Keyboard Dock iLounge
I want this! This ability makes an iPad a whole lot more appealing to me!!!
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I want this! This ability makes an iPad a whole lot more appealing to me!!!
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Friday, January 22, 2010
History I Remember....
Thirty-two years ago today, the remians of a Soviet satellitle, including its nuclear fuel source carshed into the Canadian Arctic. Yes, I was just a kid but I remember this for a couple of reasons. First, my dad was still in the Air Force and it made an impression that these were his people cleaning up this mess. Second, it was just the neatest thing in the world that toxic space junk was falling on OUR country. Well, I was very young... Keep that in mind.
Here's an intersting link to the story in the CBC Archives- Soviet nuclear satellite crashes in Canada.
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Friday, January 15, 2010
CBC News - World - A pariah history, some promising starts and now this
Haiti's modern history is one of the unfulfilled hope and dashed dreams of a vibrant people. This article taught me some things about Haitian history that make me even sadder. Here's an excerpt:
Haiti's on-going background level of poverty has been persistent. But understanding why one country stays poor while others grow rich is a surprisingly difficult task, even for development experts.
Fixing the problem is even more difficult.
It is not as if foreign donors haven't tried to set the country on the right track, says Yasmine Shamsie, a Wilfrid Laurier professor who specializes in international development and security efforts in Haiti.
"Yes, there have been true attempts," says Shamsie. "Countries like Canada and the United States really want to solve these problems."
Many development experts blame Haiti's problems on its long history as a pariah state, going back as far as the debt Napoleon forced onto the former French colony as the price of independence in 1803.
People had to pay for the land and the slaves they had "stolen." The stolen slaves, of course, were Haiti's own citizens. They had to buy themselves...
Read the rest here:
CBC News - World - A pariah history, some promising starts and now this
Haiti's on-going background level of poverty has been persistent. But understanding why one country stays poor while others grow rich is a surprisingly difficult task, even for development experts.
Fixing the problem is even more difficult.
It is not as if foreign donors haven't tried to set the country on the right track, says Yasmine Shamsie, a Wilfrid Laurier professor who specializes in international development and security efforts in Haiti.
"Yes, there have been true attempts," says Shamsie. "Countries like Canada and the United States really want to solve these problems."
Many development experts blame Haiti's problems on its long history as a pariah state, going back as far as the debt Napoleon forced onto the former French colony as the price of independence in 1803.
People had to pay for the land and the slaves they had "stolen." The stolen slaves, of course, were Haiti's own citizens. They had to buy themselves...
Read the rest here:
CBC News - World - A pariah history, some promising starts and now this
Wednesday, January 13, 2010
Tuesday, January 12, 2010
CBC News - Canada - Why our schools are failing boys
RE: the below link/article. I'll write some more about this later...
Its accurate to say that I have some strong thoughts about some of these issues as a male in a non-traditional role.
CBC News - Canada - Why our schools are failing boys
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Its accurate to say that I have some strong thoughts about some of these issues as a male in a non-traditional role.
CBC News - Canada - Why our schools are failing boys
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Monday, January 11, 2010
Sunday, January 10, 2010
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