MSNBC reporta that Donald Trump dislikes the proposed New York World Trade Center redevelopment. Before I read this article, I wasn’t even aware of the counter proposal to update the original design by Minoru Yamasaki, but now that I have I’m very impressed. To me the design fits better with what I would expect in […]
Monthly Archives: May 2005
Much Ado About The Queen
14 May 2005 – 1:15 pm
I’m very happy to see that the Queen has not altered her plans to visit Canada for the Saskatchewan and Alberta centennial celebrations. I don’t see any valid reason for the visit to be cancelled. In fact, I’m convinced that cancelling would be a bad thing. The whole point of Canada being a democracy while […]
Starting Over With Ubuntu
8 May 2005 – 3:35 pm
Due to the difficulties I was having with Ubuntu I finally decided to just try reinstalling everything. (Fortunately, I have my home folder on a separate partition so I didn’t need to reconfigure too many things.) The reinstall turned out to be a really good idea: all the major issues I described are gone. It […]
BC-STV Falls Short
It would appear that the Single Transferable Vote didn’t quite have enough support to pass in yesterday’s referendum in BC. As a fan of political theatre and oddball candidates, I must admit that I’m a little disappointed. However, it’s good to see that both the premier and opposition leader acknowledge that a lot of people […]