As radioactive water continues to leak from the nuclear reactor that produces more than half the world's medical isotopes, Canwest News Service has learned that technicians at the Chalk River, Ont., facility are privately wondering if the end has finally come for the world's oldest reactor.
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Who pays for this blog? I receive no fees, considerations, etc. etc. for the posts on this blog nor do I have any plans to accept any. My salary is paid by Canwest Global Communications Corp. I work for that company as the Ottawa-based National Affairs Correspondent for Canwest News Service. The blog publishing platform used here is called Blogware and it's developed by Tucows Inc. of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. My use of Blogware should not be taken as an endorsement of that company. Like all Blogware users, I do not pay any fees for the use of this service. I participate in program. Google pays me some money and, for that, I give Google some space on this site to display ads. Google sells those ads and Google, not me, decides what advertising content you are seeing. I do not filter these ads and take no responsibility for them. Readers should not assume I endorse any of the products or services advertised here. If you think other disclosures are appropriate in this space, I'd like to hear from you. All of my contact details are always at www.davidakin.com You can read more about this section |
Wednesday, May 20
Chalk River: End of the line for world's oldest reactor?
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DavidAkin
on Wed 20 May 2009 08:50 PM EDT
Tuesday, May 19
What's a Twibe? I'm a Twibe. You're a Twibe. We're a Twibe.
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DavidAkin
on Tue 19 May 2009 03:41 PM EDT
Just ran across another Web service that is a derivative of Twitter - Twibes. A Twibe seems to me be closely related to a Twitter hashtag but I'm still trying to figure out the concept. To start -- mostly to experiment with -- I've created two Twibes -- one for tweets, news, etc. by and about the House of Commons and one for the news by and about the Parliamentary Press Gallery. What is a Twibe? more »Thursday, May 14
Time to pare it back on Facebook: Goodbye to some FB friends
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DavidAkin
on Thu 14 May 2009 10:56 PM EDT
I've come to the conclusion that less is more on Facebook -- fewer friends means greater value. So, over the next little while, I'm going to be saying goodbye to Facebook friends and Facebook apps. more »Monday, May 4
Help: Need Google contextual menu for Mac OS X
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DavidAkin
on Mon 04 May 2009 12:58 PM EDT
I want a contextual menu plug-in for Mac OS X that will let me right click on any highlighted text in any application -- not just browsers or Apple apps -- and then search Google on the highlighted text, returning the results of that search in a Firefox window. more » |
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