Month: November 2006

Liberals blasted on Kyoto: “‘It’s inappropriate in an international meeting to slam another political party,’ Liberal MP John Godfrey said in an interview with CTV Newsnet. But Mr. Godfrey insisted he was not guilty of the same charge when he called Ms. Ambrose’s actions ‘idiotic’ during a news conference Monday at the same UN meeting.

‘It was the opposite of disloyal,’ he said of his earlier comments. ‘It was simply supporting Kyoto.'”

Uh, right….

These opposition members flew half way around the world with the single purpose of heckling Rona Ambrose at the UN meeting on Kyoto.

Stephen Taylor – Conservative Party of Canada Pundit: Media bias on climate change

So Rona Ambrose gets the dubious “Fossil of the Day Award” at the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change and the press in Canada is falling all over themselves to report on it. But a year ago Stephane Dion of the Liberal Party received the same “award” at the UNFCCC conference in Montreal, and not drop of ink was spilled.

The Liberals sign us on to the Kyoto Accord and spend the next 13 years doing nothing and running up a 30% increase in Greenhouse Gasses. But it’s the Conservatives that take flak for actually implementing a plan with attainable targets, recognizing the fact that due to Liberal inaction original Canadian targets are now unreachable (a fact even Liberals acknowledge).

Of course, it’s just the same old story…

links for 2006-11-15

• FCKGW
  Entry on wikipedia on FCKGW – ahhhhhh, FCKGW…

links for 2006-11-14

• Mr Mozzarella
  He’s the big cheese
  (tags: pizza delivery ottawa)
• On a Desert Island…
  Desert Island comedies of funny people.
  (tags: movies comedians)

links for 2006-11-13

• From Del.icio.us to WordPress: How to automatically post daily links
  Post daily links from del.icio.us to WordPress (and Blogger – see comments section!)
  (tags: blog links)
• ADOdb Active Record
  ADOdb Active Record implementation for PHP
  (tags: adodb database activeRecord php)
• The Wii Experience
  A bunch of videos of people using the Nintendo Wii controller for the first time.
  (tags: Nintendo Games Wii)
• Nintendo’s Wii Is A Revolution
  “By giving players the ability to physically interact with a virtual world, Nintendo has significantly changed the experience of videogaming. It’s suddenly more immersive, more compelling and potentially more appealing to consumers who have never consider
  (tags: Nintendo Wii Games)
• Chicken Cacciatore (Chicken, Hunter’s Style)
  (tags: recipe chicken)

So the Zune, ostensibly Microsoft’s “iPod Killer”, comes out today. And the reviews are bad bad bad. From the pricing structure of the Zune Marketplace to the crippling DRM to the terrible user experience. This thing is a dud and anyone who drops actual cash on this thing is a fool.

Installing the Zune… sucked – Engadget

Zune Marketplaces Absurd Pricing Scheme