Archive for 'June,2007'
Save Time: Manage Your Profile on Multiple Internet Social Networks
So, you have a Facebook account to stay in touch with your friends, a LinkedIn account for your business, a Flickr account for photos, and a MySpace account for feedback on your ‘SoundForge/AcidLoops’ amateur electronic music creations posted under [...]
Famous Christian Composer Under Heat for Islamic Theophany
John Tavener is the composer of the famous ‘Song for Athene’; the song people around the world heard on television while watching the procession of the funeral of Princess Diana. Tavener’s latest work is raising some controversy, [...]
Canada: A Land of Mediocrity
“Canadians are complacent and generally unwilling to take risks. Our culture is unwilling to accept the failures that are built into an environment that genuinely supports risk taking. Nor are we wholly comfortable with differentiation, success [...]
Atlantica
The two-day 2007 Atlantica Conference began yesterday at the Halifax World Trade and Convention Center. For those of you who don’t know, ‘Atlantica’ is an effort at better economic integration for the Atlantic region of North [...]
Flip-animation Subway Ads in Asia
No surprise here. More inventive advertising coming out of Asia in a ‘flipbook’ animation format. The combination of subway tunnels and motion produced a new medium for advertisers in China and Japan, as seen in the [...]
Impress Your Friends – Doomsday Algorithm
Would you like to raise some eyebrows as you confidently guess the day of any date your friends throw at you? "November 17, 2030" they challenge. "Sunday" you respond correctly. [...]
A Touching Plea for Help
I often receive emails at work from international citizens of less-fortunate countries asking for scholarships or bursaries to attend studies in Canada for free. Normally, I would kindly decline and point them to international resources for [...]
Fashionable Helmets – For Summer Bikers
Summer is bike season in Halifax, and, well, if you’re going to ride the death machine you might as well do it in style! The 2007 Collection by Nexx Helmets is out. If you do end [...]
Money Talks on Capitol Hill
On the topic of acquisitions, it appears that at least four US lobby groups are succeeding in brokering a deal that would see Dubai Aviation Enterprise (DAE) purchase the aviation arm of the Carlyle Group for [...]
Conservatives To Regulate Foreign Takeovers
As if on que to my May 31 post on foreign acquisitions (Eh-Rabs Buying Out Canada), Federal Finance Minister Jim Flaherty announced Ottawa’s intention to “draw up principles that more carefully spell out the grounds on [...]
Is the Canadian Maple Leaf A Recognizable International Symbol?
Well am sorry to say that, the Lebanese Flag does look more like the A
If Halifax Was Palestine.
Haha way to humanize the Vulcans. You magically left out the part wher
Confirmed: Islamic Banking in Canada
Brother I am not familiar with canadian environment.But as a student o
Muslim Prayer in Toronto Schools: Social Engineering vs School Board Policy
With regards to Farak's comments: 1st, Hitler and the others you ment
Muslim Prayer in Toronto Schools: Social Engineering vs School Board Policy
Stumbled upon this accidentally and didn't finish reading, but I'm won