What problem is Google attempting to solve with the Chrome OS? A lot of talk about 7 sec boot up time -- is that all? I don't really see a lot of other advantage? It seems to me they are taking a lot away for not much gain. Am I just thick?
"Growing tired of your spouse, but worried about an expensive divorce settlement? Act now, while the economy is still in the dumps, local divorce lawyers advise."
- Brian Sullivan
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"The website said in a Friday posting that although "many praise that glass structure, just as many are troubled by the incongruity to the original, more traditional museum that still sits directly beside it." - surprised it wasn't higher.
- Brian Sullivan
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I used to go to the ROM as a kid. I'm a big fan of this kind of architecture, and I really like this building. The list is somewhat questionable, with this and the Pompidou in Paris on the list as well. But one building I really do agree with is Melbourne's Federation Square. Damn that place is ugly.
- Will Higgins™
I like the ROM as well -- on the inside it seems the changes are quite nice but to me this thing looks like a wart on the building from the outside. The Gehry AGO mods I find quite pleasing though inside and out. Maybe it is just a matter of taste.
- Brian Sullivan
Hmm this only seems to happen if you try to log in immediately after reboot -- wait a little while and the network connections are restored. What can I say -- I am impatient.
- Brian Sullivan
""We have captured it! First circulating beam of 2009!" And with that tweet, researchers at CERN announced that they did in fact activate the Large Hadron Collider, after quite a long delay and despite warnings of a looming, nefarious Higgs boson. Whether or not we will have had total destruction as an unfortunate result of the device remains to be seen, but should the future find a way to either cease to exist or travel to the past in some time-bending paradox, we only hope linguists and physicists can work together and figure out the proper verb conjugations for this brave new world."
- Brian Sullivan
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@jungledisk 3.01 appears to lose all network mappings on every reboot making it almost useless for normal use
"Newspapers should become "radically open" if they want to make money in the online world, the co-founder of social networking site Twitter has said." - a tinge of irony there?
- Brian Sullivan
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Think Progress » Fox News displays old campaign footage to claim Palin is getting ‘huge crowds’ at her book signings. (Updated) - http://thinkprogress.org/2009...
"Fox News has acknowledged they made a “production error” and may take “serious disciplinary action” against those who in the control room who were responsible."
- Brian Sullivan
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Just copied pictures from my camera to computer of the photo shoot from yesterday. Visited two chemotherapy treatment centres. Chemotherapy is nasty stuff.
"The Kindle is finally coming to Canada, just in time for the Holiday shopping season. Amazon.com announced yesterday its popular electronic reading device is available for shipment immediately. "We know that Canadians are passionate about books and reading, and we're excited to make Kindle available to our customers there," said Ian Freed, vice-president of Kindle. Canada is all but last to jump on the Kindle bandwagon."
- Brian Sullivan
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So I guess all Canadians are going to rush out and buy one?
- Brian Sullivan
"Former McCain campaign senior adviser Nicolle Wallace says Sarah Palin's book "Going Rogue" is "based on fabrications," and that the basis for Palin’s depictions of her and former McCain campaign director Steve Schmidt as villains "took place entirely in her imagination.""
- Brian Sullivan
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"The study found between 50 and 80 per cent of the athletes competing in Rome had sores on their fingers from pulling on suits such as the Jaked, Athena X-Glide or Speedo LZR Racer. More than half of the swimmers had bruises on their legs."
- Brian Sullivan
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