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This is to inform my non-exsistant readership that I will be moving to Vox for the time being. I have been having some issues with Blogger and I just want to try out something new. I might return to Blogger sooner rather than later, but for now, I'm going to try out Vox. It's an awsome blogging engine and once I get more invites, feel free to email me for one.Visit http://

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With the growth of the open source movement in recent years, the number of open source solutions has expanded in recent years with the large scale apotion of Linux, the founding of the Mozilla Foundation, and the development of OpenOffice.org in the late nineties. The number of Non-Microsoft solutions is quite astonishing. And it's a wonder why the majority of the geek community has not jumped

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Spaces Spaced Out If any of my old MSN Spaces blogging audience is reading this, you know that I switched over from the MSN Spaces blogging service back in July for various reasons. Just to explain a few, I found the lack of costumization, as well as the chessy looking interface, did not have the proper image I wanted to project to the Blogoshere. The fact is, with MSN Spaces, you could not

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Inclings of WWDC With WWDC only days away, the Apple Rumor mill has gone into overdrive, with the latest rumors comming from Engadget. Engadget speculates that Apple will release the must speculated and anticipated iPhone. They present several compelling argurments including the fact that when Apple released it's Q3 results, CFO Peter Openhiemer, when asked about the iPhone, Openhimer said "

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Dell Quality Suffering? Not a day goes by that you don't hear about Laptop's exploding, battery swelling or discoloration. It seems everyone is suffering from defects in product these days. Most recently Apple has been the Victim. But the new Victim these days is Dell. Just in the past week two laptops have exploded, for unknown reasons. And the fact that Dell has outsourced it's IT support

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Over the last few days I've discovered a lovely site called BoingBoing. If you will recall in the last post I rerferenced it for a story about the Core 2 Duo Chips. Anyways, it's an interesting site about odd stuff. They have interesting things on everything from writing on water to a giant fish. But I digriss. It's now added to the link's sidebar and feel free to visit it. Moving onto today's

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Core 2 Duo Finally Arrives Well they're finally here. The new Core 2 chips made my Intel have made they're way into the mainstream. The Core Two Duo chips codenamed Conroe(Desktop) and Merom(Mobile) respectivly, are set to replace the year and a half old Yonah first gen Core Duo chips. This puts the silicon crown back on Intel's head as these chips just shoot way ahead of anything that AMD has

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ATI + AMD= AMT?Not this is new news but guess what? ATI and AMD have merged with is a fancy way of saying, ATI has been swallowed up by AMD. Now I love AMD, don't get me wrong. However I don't aprove of major US companies thinking that they can swallow up Canadian companies cheaply. Now in AMD's case it will cost them $5 bilion and about 70 shares of there stock to buy ATI. So what does the

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Trying to get back on my feet from a bout of Bloggers Block. Well here goes:Zune zap flop If I have any Engadget readers out there or anyone who hasn't been ignoring the tech world for the past 2-3 weeks then you probably know that Microsoft is intent on taking on arch rival Apple in the Portable mp3 player market with a new product. Codenamed Zune, people both inside and outside the tech

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Well, due to the scarcity of good news these days I've decided that tonight I will go on an Editorial rant of sorts. Tonight's topic will be Ameican Influence: The Death of Nationalism.Over the past century America has developed from a small group of states bound together in a union to an influnece on the world stage. Over the past several years American Influense has grown-and grown and

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Forces finally get Rolling; French Offer help in Evacuation; Ships Arrive in Turkey According to CBC News, the Department of National Defence has ordered that HMCS Halifax (Frigate) and HMCS Preserver (Supply Ship) have been placed on 48 hours notice to be ready to deploy. As well 70 soldiers have been deployed from CFB Trenton to Cyprus and Beirut to provide security, crowd control and

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PM to use Jet to evacuate Canadians from Lebanon Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced that we would use his own personal jet to evacuate Canadian nationals arriving on Cyprus from Lebanon. Harper has directed that the jet's staff being stripped down to those who are absolutely required (Pilot, Copilot and Security) Harper has directed that Foreign Affairs to charter planes to take the

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Comerant Airmen Honoured For any Canadians who read this blog, you're probably aware that a Coast Guard CH-149 Comerant crashed in Canso last week, killing three coast guardsmen. Sgt. Duane Brazil of Newfoundland, Master Sgt. Kirk Noel, and Cp. Trevor McDavid where all killed Thursday morning when there Coast Guard CH-149 Comerant Search and Rescue Helicopter crashed in Canso, Nova

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Israeli Troops entered South Lebanon to hunt down and destory Hezbollah. Evacuation have also begun in Beruit and other parts of the country. This was inevetable, as Air and artierlly can only do so much. This is a deciseve movement: Either Hezbollah will be hunted down and destroyed forever or Israel will return home, humilliated and facing future attacks from Hezbollah, Islamic Jihad and

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Ready Aye, Not ReadyIn regard to last night's post, the conflict in Lebanon has escalated again today with Israel launching limited ground operations over the southern Lebanese border. Air attacks by the IDF continue to pound Bierut and other Hezbollah targets. Evacuations have began in Bierut with the United States, Greece, Italy, France, Sweden & Spain, amoung others to transport nationals and

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Firefox 2 Beta 1 ReviewFirefox 2 Beta 1 was released about 5 days ago and I downloaded it to try out almost right away. There is no noticeable difference in the user interface when you load up Firefox 2. However, there are a number of new features. First, there is a new inline spellcheck for people who don't know how to spell (like yours truely) as well there is an anti-phishing feature. Also,

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Man Trades Paperclip for House in 14 TradesA Montreal man who decided he wanted a house but didn't have the pocketbook do buy it has made his dream come true. Kyle Macdonald of Montreal, has been offered a two storey farm house for a paid role in Corbin Bernsen's Dona on Demand. McDonald who started out with a large red paper clip traded it for these items Paper Clip, Fish Pen, Handmade Doorknob

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This Post is fair warning that I will not posting on this Blog from July 10-July 15. I will be participating in the Tidal Impact Youth Conference here in Halifax. It will consume most of my time over the next 5-7 days so I will not have time to check my Email, Blog, IM etc. I have posted The Late Night Report post tonight earlier tonight at around 11 p.m. local time, other than that, don't

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Dell Releases New Concept Case for Next Generation PC Dell has released a concept sketch of it's next generation PC. And to say the least....it will be interesting. For a fair comparison, I will use my (current, soon to be replaced) Dell Demension 4400. It's your regular "tower" conncept with optical drives in in the sides most likely either facing vertical or horizontal. At this

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A concept sketch of the next generation of Dell's PC's has been unvield. While Hardware specs have yet to release speculation points to an Intel Core Duo 2/ATI Processor chipset. I'm finished the Late Night Report Post and It'll be out in a few hours.Nateread more | digg story

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Microsoft to Support Open Office Files Microsoft has bowed to pressure from numerous goverments and will support the .odt or Open Office format used by the open source productivity suite of the same name. The decesion is an about face for the Redmond based sotware giant who initally stated that it would not support Open XML file format's. However under considerable pressure from numerous

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This is the start of a late night report serious that will run hopefully each night throughout the summer. I will select on headline from International, Technology and Canadian News each. Sometomes I will not be able to make the deadline, so my apologies in advance. Here are tonight's headlines.Israeli tank squadron rolls into nothern GazaA small tank squadron of the Israeli amry has rolled into

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According to Engadget, someone has modded the Ipod for wireless internet as well as well as tablet-like capabilities. Is this the Ultra Portable that has been rumored by Think Secret and Apple Insider? Or is it the new version of the Ipod interface? We'll find out soon enough. If it doesn't appear at Apple's WWDC tradeshow this August, it will later in the fall where Apple usually announces

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Neowin reports that Japanese scientests are working on a device (called an "odour recorder") that records smells for later playback.read more | digg story

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Ever gone to a movie that you had a vauge idea what it was about but you whern't exactlly sure what it was about? I've gone to a few of those and that's what I went to tonight. I went to see the crittically acclaimed Superman Returns directed by Bryan Singer. I went into the movie thinking that "Oh this is going to be really good, I'm going to love this". However I came out of the Theatre

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They say that the first job is the hardest. Well I'm finding that getting the first my first job is the hardest. I've been to all the major employers around my home (Blockbuster, Rogers Video, Sobey's, Superstore, Dairy Queen, Wal-Mart A&W) and I havn't got a job yet! Well that could change tomorrow. I went a job fair last week that Staples was running. I went through 3 interviews with 3

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Well I'm switching over from MSN spaces to Blogger, for reasons that are numerous but I perfer not to go into detail here. I hope that Blogger will acomodate all my needs and, knowing Google it will.Anyway, I'll post something of intrest later,Nate

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