"PICKERING -- Cathy Bitondo lives in Pickering but believes she's being affected by the Toronto garbage strike. The 61-year-old said the land she and her husband own in north Pickering, which is up for sale and not currently attractive due to the increasing garbage, is being used as a dump."
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"The brainchild of budding entrepreneurs and research labs, these tech failures were intended to become commonplace in our fast-changing world. Unfortunately, they turned into Frankensteins that no one wanted – mostly for scientific reasons, technical dependencies, or a poorly conceived business model."
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"Computerworld - The meet-up in San Francisco last month had a whiff of revolution about it, like a latter-day techie version of the American Patriots planning the Boston Tea Party. The inaugural get-together of the burgeoning NoSQL community crammed 150 attendees into a meeting room at CBS Interactive. Like the Patriots, who rebelled against Britain's heavy taxes, NoSQLers came to share how they had overthrown the tyranny of slow, expensive relational databases in favor of more efficient and cheaper ways of managing data."
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"The US Patent and Trademark office today released a flurry of 22 Apple patent applications, the most earth-shaking of which may rid the world of one of nightlife's most maddening menaces: off-key karaoke singers."
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One thing: I'm fairly sure that Rock Band does what's covered in the patent. Prior art, Apple.
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SPOILERS: St Olga is a Potemkin village. Also, while the monastery has ceilings, it's missing quite a bit of roof. (All that, or I'm just no-clipping into places I'm not allowed. Your call. ;)
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Just figured out this evening some things about how Taskerrific should work. Well, the back of my brain knew, but now the front does too.