Monthly Archives: August 2005

From Pierre Bourque – Katrina

Pierre Bourque runs a top notch news site in Canada. I’ve had the opportunity to email him on occasion, and I have great respect for his dedication and courtesy. His words below hold earned merit and urgency: A personal message … Continue reading

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Spam blogs

Spam blogs (Splots) are blogs mostly hosted on Googles popular platform Blogspot that exist to generate links and promote a product. This post took a look at 50 blogs and found 30 were spam blogs. That’s 60%. Redoing the test … Continue reading

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Softwood Lumber

Canada is heading into a winter election. There are all kinds of issues on the table. This remains one. Two generations have worked to settle this softwood lumber dispute. So when I see the rhetoric being turned up, my hope … Continue reading

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Katrina moves inland

Four days after Hurricane Katrina hit South Florida, people are coping without electricity and many of the basics of life. Katrina was downgraded to a category four as it hit the gulf coast of the US last night. The eye … Continue reading

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Meeting the local MP

Today was a walk-away-from-it-all-day, and I wound up walking up to the local MP. It didn’t start out that way, it started out as a golf day. Not hard core 18 hole golf, the kind my siblings consistently clobber me … Continue reading

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Holidays and Hurricane Katrina

I haven’t been near the computer or the TV at all today, haven’t been following the news, simply because there are times I need to walk away from my information addiction, and my family and I are trying to take … Continue reading

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Remorselessly less energy

JHK: Yeah, and people generally misunderstand what the implications are. A lot of people think it’s about running out of oil. It isn’t particularly about running out of oil. It’s about living in an industrial society that can no longer … Continue reading

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Sweden targeted by hate group

You can’t make this stuff up. A US hate group run by Fred Phelps is heading to Sweden. Phelps and his Westboro Baptist Church having nothing good to say about the country or it’s monarchy. It started in 2003 when … Continue reading

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