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Ted Menzies Responds to my Letter About Bill C-30

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Ted,

I am very concerned about the fact that a bill allowing the Government / Police to monitor the Internet activities of law abiding citizens is even being considered by the House of Commons. The statement that people that believe this bill is an error “support child pornography” is a horrible, misinformed thing for any government representative to state in the public forum. I know it wasn’t you that said it, but as my local government representative I don’t know where ...

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Saying Goodbye to Onsite Windows?

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Why your enterprise might not need windows servers on site.

Many small and medium enterprises spend 1000’s of dollars a year on licensing of Microsoft server products. With the advent of large-scale hosted Microsoft applications it is now possible to spread the licensing costs out over many years, rather than buying them in one large lump sum. This allows companies to only license the software they use, rather than buying the whole package of software and only using small parts of ...

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The Importance of Creativity

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When I was growing up I suffered through school days. Rare were moments of inspiration, fewer still were flashes of understanding; instead my hours in the classroom were spent daydreaming, drawing, writing short stories, songs and designing the river-trebuchet (for use in the hide & seek games we’d play in the forest after school).

My report cards were average at best and always punctuated with remarks like “Michael is not living up to his potential”. When I saw this video it ...

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