Election Summary

If you watched the election converage, it was like a horse race. The Liberals were out of the gate first (taking most of the Atlantic seats), the Bloc caught up quickly around the first bend through Quebec, but then the Liberals jumped out to a big lead going through the back stretch. Around […]

Election Day — Go Vote

Today is the Canadian Federal election, all Canadian citizens over the age of 18 are eligible to vote. If you are eligible, go and do you civic duty. For the first time in 25 years it will not be an elected dictatorship (all majority governments are in effect an elected dictatorship for 4 […]

I just got spammed by the New Conservatives!

Yet another reason not to vote for a party that will let government’s role be marginalised by corporate interests that use the same tactics and want less regulations so they can do whatever it takes to make a profit.
See the full text here.
Going by the header it appears as though the spam is from a […]

Opa! Final 4 for Greece

Each of Greece’s games in the Euro Cup has gone to the underdog (win over Portugal, tie with favourite Spain, then a loss to the Russians who were already out of contention), so why would today’s quarter-final game against the top seeded team in the tournament, France, be any different. A great header from […]

Orioles win 2

In front of a tough crowd at Thompson Park, the Orioles handlely took care of the Wolverines 18-9 in game 1 , and held on to take game 2, 18-13. The 2 wins moves us to 4-2 on the season. Pressure from the crowd was on those of us from the Pavlidis family, […]

Euro 2004 - Cinderella stroy?

With what can only be called the second biggest upset of the tourney, (the first being the Greek defeat of Portugal) Greece came back to tie Spain in the 68th minute 1-1. For a team that rarely makes it to the championship tournaments, and failed to score in their last major appearance; Greece is […]

Debate — Round 2

Now for my recap of round 2, the english debate of the Canadian federal leaders.

Anna Maria Tremonte did a horrible job as moderator. There were many cases when the debaters were talking over each other, and this should not have been allowed to continue. The french moderator did an excellent job last […]

Debate — Round 1

The first debate of this election took place this evening, this round in french. Round 2 tomorrow is in english.
The party leaders responces to the “tough” questions were well scripted and rehersed, but helped to expose the holes in some of the party policies, and recall some of the leaders positions (or lack there […]

LJ Tech Tip

I receive the weekly Linux Journal News Letter. This week’s had a good tip about better use of hard drive space by using swap for /tmp:
When you’re planning the partitioning scheme for your next Linux system, keep in mind that you may want to put /tmp on tmpfs instead of directly on disk and […]

Euro 2004

The Euro Cup began today in Portugal. Game one pitted the host Portugal against Greece. This is Greece’s first appearance in a championship tournament in 10 years. The last event was the 1994 World Cup in the US, where the Greek’s fail to score a goal. But Georgios Karagounis […]

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