Archive for July, 2006
Monday, July 31st, 2006
I had been waiting, hoping to read that Stephen Harper had come to his senses, denounced the violence between Israel and Lebanon and called for an immediate cease-fire - but no such announcment has come.
It has been almost 24-hours since the bombing in Qana that took the lives of 54 ...
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Saturday, July 29th, 2006
I love it when stupid people get in the news for doing stupid things. For some reason, this landscaper felt that it was a good idea to drive across Toronto with a First World War bomb in the back of his truck. Not only did he drive across down, ...
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Wednesday, July 26th, 2006
Hasbro Inc. of Britain announced that it will release a version of the everyone-owns-it classic, Monopoly, in a very new and updated form: cashless. The company noted that more and more people are carrying cash less and less.
In the words of a company spokesman, "we started looking at what ...
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Wednesday, July 26th, 2006
I wanted to write about equalization payments but I haven't learned enough about the process yet to form a coherent thought. I like to be able to not only express my opinion but also to relate some information and insight in to the topics that I write about. ...
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Monday, July 24th, 2006
AMD announces $5.4B bid for Canada's ATI
AMD (Advanced Micro Devices) announced today that it would purchase ATI Technologies Inc. (Array Technologies Incorporated Technologies Inc. - go figure that one) in a cash-and-share friendly buyout. From the sounds of the reports coming from both sides it sounds very much like a ...
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