A group from the US Minerals Management Service was conducting marine surveys in the Beaufort and Chukchi Seas in advance of potential offshore oil development. They discovered at least 9 polar bears swimming 60 miles out at sea in search of food and habitat. The US Department of Interior listed polar bears as threatened under [...]
So I noticed that when I went to scroll the pearl on my blackberry in the “down” direction it either wouldn’t roll or it would but the device would not respond. After poking around on Howard Forums I found an excellent post about how to repair this. It involved carefully prying the silver ring off [...]
It was announced in the news this morning that The Tories are committed to cutting $44.8-million in spending on arts and culture by April of 2010. Music and Arts programs in schools have been disappearing at an alarming rate over the last 10 years and this will certainly deal a blow to even more people [...]
So this morning I decided to ride the city’s pathway system to find the route I would take to ride my bike to work. Being the environmentally conscious guy that I am – even though I take my car to the train station in the morning and mainly commute via rail – I can do [...]
I know that after three years of living in Calgary that I should be used to seeing the orange barrels, three lanes squished down to one and the occasional closure throughout the city…but today was just totally insane. I picked up my girlfriend and her niece and nephew way down in the SW and had [...]
So tonight I logged into facebook and realized there was a link at the very top of the page that read: “The New Facebook is Here – Try It Now.” After clicking on the link I realized that the new url shows that the Facebook Developers have been hard at work giving the Application a “face”-lift. I [...]
