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Martin Brundle hit the nail on the head during his commentary of the Japanese Grand Prix when he said that F1 is now a “nanny state”. The penalties that were handed out during and after the race can be justified by pointing at video of the incidents and saying “look, he did a bad thing” [...]

Most UFO cults don’t stay around for very long; they either self destruct, like Heaven’s Gate or fade away, like the Aetherius Society. Even the Raelians have slowly faded into obscurity.
Scientology though refuses to die. Despite being declared a criminal organisation in Canada and other countries. Despite the huge amount of negative press they’ve had [...]

The Quebec Human Rights Commission has quite rightly ruled that city councils, including Saguenay, should stop praying before or during council meetings because it violates religious freedom.
Sadly, the mayor of Saguenay, Jean Tremblay, doesn’t care about human rights because apparently he’s a religious bigot:
“I know they prefer me to stop, but I won’t do that,” [...]

I have a new job!
No, I’m not leaving McGill… Today I accepted a new position at McGill as a web developer in the Web Services Group, the team who look after the content of mcgill.ca and are involved in other web initiatives around campus.
It’s a step in a new direction for me. The WSG use [...]

For most schools around here, this is the last week of summer. For the past few weeks I’ve had peaceful journeys to work, sitting reading my book in a quiet carriage, sometimes with empty seats around me. All that is about to change.
It started today with the Dawson students who thankfully are old enough to [...]

I was browsing plugins on wordpress.org when suddenly it all looked different. For a second I thought I’d ended up on a different site, but no, it looks like the new look and feel has been implemented to match the upcoming WordPress 2.5 release, which is now showing up on the download page.
It looks great, [...]

In moments of boredom over the past few days I’ve been going through all the blogs on yulblog.org to see what blogging platforms people are using. The result is the graph below.
Notes:
I didn’t visit every single site. For example most of the blogger/blogspot sites I determined just by looking at the URI, so some of [...]

Recently a UK court decided that Al Gore’s documentary, An Inconvenient Truth, could be shown in British schools, despite an attempt by a school governor to suppress it on the grounds that it is biased. The movie now has to be preceded by a disclaimer, but I’m guessing the film itself will have [...]

I’ve haven’t been a fan of Al Gore ever since he claimed to have invented the internet, but I have new-found respect for the man after watching An Inconvenient Truth at the weekend. He’s obviously passionate about the cause and he’s been trying to tackle it for a long time. He’s done his research and [...]

Montreal has a vibrant tech community, most notably in the gaming and multimedia arenas, but also in the world of internet startups. There is also a heavy open-source influence, probably fuelled by the desire of many Montrealers for intellectual freedom and freedom of expression. I’d like to showcase a few of the Montreal based projects [...]

Over the years I’ve tried many different ways to remember stuff. I’ve tried paper calendars and diaries, which just got forgotten and gathered dust. I’ve tried post-it notes, which just get lost. I’ve tried keeping stuff in my head, which works some of the time, but the amount of time it works decreases with age.
Of [...]