Abandoned Stuff by Saskboy

And this is why you don’t want your computer to get a virus.

And it’s another reason why using Linux or Mac, can really save you some trouble down the road.

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Hat tip (oddly enough) goes partly to SmallDeadAnimals.com
Kate’s politics may be out of the last century, but she’s ahead of most people on technology.
Slashdot has been talking about Storm virus for a while, and I’ve been expecting something like this since at least 2001. It never made sense to me that most viruses at that point did so little to conceal themselves as they spread, and usually disabled the computer without doing anything aside from causing their software to malfunction.

The mayor of Saskatoon needs a better perspective of what kind of recycling systems Canadians expect from their government. Drop him a line after reading Sean S.’s blog post regarding curb-side recycling in the best city north of Regina.

I sent:

I’d like the Mayor to know that many people in the province think it’s completely irresponsible of him to not expect to implement a curb-side recycling program in Saskatoon.

More thoughts on the issue can be read at Sean’s blog
http://seaninsaskatchewan.blogspot.com/2007/10/its-year-2007-and-our-mayor-doesnt-back.html

Thank you for your time, and consideration on this important modernization of a city I once lived in.

I had to remove the slashes in the URL because the email form wouldn’t accept it with a link.

I think it would be cool to own a plotter and print out this baby. I waited a few days after the launch, because I figured the server would be slow when it first went online.

UPDATE: OK, it’s kinda lame so far. And I can’t find a link to download, it just wants to stream it. Can you find a link to download?

This is funnier than Rick Mercer’s Talking to Americans.

I like how the answers are framed against each other. I think I’d want bionic skin, eyes, or ears before something worthless like a bionic penis.

Do any of my computer savvy readers know of an online tool that can scan links on a website to see if they still work? Even better, something that scans to see if links have changed into a splog or spam blog?

I got the idea for this tool when I noticed that in my archives I had a link to iamnotafraid.ca from Warren Kinsella’s past, and it has been co-opted by a spammer looking to benefit from the Google Page Rank that comes from many blogs linking to it.

I’m contemplating what I’ll do for next year’s garden. Since I live in an apartment building, I don’t have easy access to land that I can call my own. I think over my compost bin on the balcony, I’ll have a flower box with some flowers and spices or onions.

For the Winter I can see if I can keep some of my petunias alive indoors, in front of my north side windows. I found a nice wooden shelving unit that I think I’ll put in front of the patio door to get the most light.

I came across some trash in the National Post blog Full Comment.

‘Since 2003, she’d been thinking of a change in careers. After heading the Sierra Club for 14 years, she had no pension, no savings and needed “something that I loved doing and that was appropriate for an aging single woman,” she said.’

It says a lot about Ms. May and perhaps the Anglican Church that the call to God and passionately doing His work is not what motivated Ms. May to pursue the priesthood. Instead, she needed a job with a pension.

This begs the question — why lead the Green party if you want to be a Anglican minister? Ms. May says its because Stephan Harper has a right wing agenda that will destroy the environment. Perhaps Ms. May has ventured into federal politics in much the same way as she has ventured into the priesthood. Rather than conviction, perhaps she is hoping for an MP’s job. It does come with a nice pension afterall.

Perhaps all this explains why her leadership of the Greens has been so disappointing. Afterall, she has endorsed Stéphane Dion and the Liberals

Do you see what John Turley-Ewart did? He took a May quote, integrated with a National Post-affiliate reporter’s take on May’s life summary, and turned it into May getting into politics simply to get a pension! Then he claims that May has endorsed the Liberal platform by supporting Dion in his riding, in exchange for him doing the same for her candidacy.

I left the following comment for John to swallow:
What a load of rubbish your argument is. I don’t always dump on someone’s blog the first time I come across it, but if you’re willing to engage in such blatant character assassination, I doubt I could win you over with logic anyhow.

Would you agree if I said that Stephen Harper is interested in politics because he wants a pension? You’d laugh me out of the room. May said right in the interview that she’s running for office because she doesn’t want Harper tearing down her life’s work in protecting the environment. You picked out something you viewed as negative (an aging woman without a pension looking for a job serving Canada), and spun it in a bad light. I know, how about you claim that people entering the military to serve our country are in it for the pension? See how that goes over with your readers.

And great job citing the NDP as a source about the agreement between May and Dion. The NDP is the party most scared by the rise in Green popularity because they know it signals the end of many of their seats. May hasn’t endorsed the Liberals, she’s endorsed Dion for MP in his riding. There’s a huge difference.

This originally appeared on SaskVotes.com

CalvertCares.com is a Sask Party attack ad that features some interesting facts about the province Lorne Calvert has run for 6 years.

From SaskVotes.com:

According to the NDP, a new Sask Party website is based on misinformation.

Frank Quennell [is] responding for the NDP. […]

When asked what exactly is wrong, Quennell points to the Sask Party’s claim that the NDP have the worst job record in Canada. He says month after month, for the last two years, they’ve had more people working in the province, who were not working before.

…That’s a fancy little bit of misdirection by Quennell. He isn’t exactly lying, but he creates enough doubt about the Sask Party provided statistic, that some people might get confused about who is right. He’s spinning back some of the Sask Party’s evaluation of the facts.

Let me clear it up for those who think Quennell has controverted the Sask Party’s point :
The Sask Party provides documentation that the job creation record is the worst in the country since 2001. It’s indisputable. What Quennell is suggesting though is that the Sask Party is wrong (when they aren’t). The Minister is pointing to only the last two years, and not even in the same sense, because he’s not comparing the growth to that of other provinces. So the Minister’s spin fails on two points!

“Quennell also laughs at the notion they have lost 35 thousand people to out - migration. He says it seems everyone but Mr Wall seems to know our population is growing, with many people coming from Alberta.”

I’m not laughing. Our Justice Minister doesn’t know the difference between population growth rate, and net growth. The Sask Party is measuring the net loss, and Quennell is looking at growth intensity. It’s the same misdirection/half-truth that oil companies like Suncor are using when they suggest that they are reducing their pollution levels, because the rate at which they are polluting has decreased or reversed.

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It’s interesting to me that the site’s name was registered back in August by the Sask Party, well before the election call. Were they tipped off to the NDP’s campaign slogan, or was it widely known?