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PC Forum
04.07.2004
Last month I attended , a conference of IT movers and shakers that attempts to answer the question "when 400 CEOs, venture capitalists, and high-powered corporate executives use an open wireless network, does it occur to anyone to encrypt their email?" Answer correctly and yo...


Orthodox Easter
04.16.2004
This year the dates for Orthodox and non-Orthodox Easter actually coincided, an unusual circumstance given the fearsomely complex and dull ways Orthodox and Western churches disagree about how to . It turns out the full cycle of Easter dates only repeats every 5,700,000 years, so...


Poland Joins The European Union
05.03.2004
The announcer brought out Cold War relic Katarina Witt, who looked like she had just been removed from cryogenic storage deep in an East Berlin bunker. Witt confessed to an early crush on some Poli...


Attacked By Thugs
05.21.2004
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Quirky Canada Has Own Currency, Laws
06.27.2004
I must keep reminding myself that I am a guest and a stranger here, and that following Canadian political life requires lowering one's excitement threshold. The in the Globe and Mail just a week before the ...


I Cannot Speak Your Crazy Moon Language
08.12.2004
: pouai che m'fis dzi la baing, tsi tellaiment chabouin, et t'amousse qu'il aie fairemin bieuvé, tabernac! : ha ha ha ha ...


An Audioblogging Manifesto
08.31.2004
I demand four minutes and twenty seconds of your life [ ]. ...


The Few Things I Won't Miss About Montreal
10.31.2004
- Eh, Giles, ca commence! Y'a des tas de gens! - Merde! Qu'est-ce qin va faeire? - Tsi bouing de la faroule, non? ...


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