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October 23, 2008

That government is best which governs least

Filed under: Uncategorized — Tags: , , — anothergene @ 11:04 am

“That government is best which governs least.”
- Thomas Paine

I personally believe this is true. At least in the in the idea that I think the government should not be in the business of protecting people from themselves. i.e. Helmet and seat belt laws. If you don’t want to wear one go a head, get yourself killed. Of course I also think that if you show up at the hospital after getting into an accident with a helmet or weren’t wearing a seat belt, you should be denied service, or at least billed for it rather then be a burden to the tax payers because you were stupid.

Thoughts? Comments?

October 16, 2008

Moving to a new Web Hosting

Filed under: Uncategorized — Tags: , , — anothergene @ 6:38 pm

I’m moving to a new web hosting service. There might be some down time and I’m turing off comments for a bit.

Should be back soon.

September 17, 2008

Gas and Price Regulation

Filed under: Uncategorized — Tags: , , , — anothergene @ 2:52 pm

Here in Manitoba (and I’m sure other places), when our local provider of natural gas wants to raise or lower prices it has to seek approval from the public utilities board.

Why shouldn’t petroleum companies have to do the same with gasoline? Do you seriously think that gasoline is not an essential utility? Try and get to work, do your grocery shopping or anything else for that matter with out burning some gas. Pretty much anything use consume has used up some gas in getting where it’s going.

Time to regulate I think.

September 16, 2008

Free WiFi at McDonald’s for all Zune Owners

Filed under: Uncategorized — Tags: , , , — anothergene @ 5:03 pm

Why does this not surprise me? I guess this makes Zune the Happy Meal of the media player market.

Free WiFi at McDonald’s for all Zune Owners

(Via The Boy Genius Report.)

September 5, 2008

Concept: LED light bulb from frog design

Filed under: Uncategorized — Tags: , , , , — anothergene @ 2:31 pm

Concept: LED light bulb from frog design

Great idea. I remember just after we bought the house in 2005 and I was replacing all the bulbs in the house with CFLs I thought this was great, but I can’t dim them and they suck outside when it’s -30C. I went looking around the web for LED light bulbs, but there was nothing that was really of any practical use yet.

There are a few problems though. One is that a lot of energy companies have invested a lot of money is advertising, etc for CFL bulbs. I hope they don’t burry it. Another is that I will be replacing 4 year old light bulbs that were supposed to last 20 years. What is going to happen to all those mercury laden CFL bulbs that will get replaced? How many of them will just end up in land fill?

(Via TED | TEDBlog.)

December 15, 2007

Sophie

Filed under: Uncategorized — Tags: , , , , — anothergene @ 11:34 pm

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It’s been a week, but I’d like to introduce everyone to the newest member of our family. Sophie. She’s a West Highland White Terrier. She was born on Oct 1 2007. We picked her up on Sat Dec 8th from the breeder out in Oak River Manitoba.

It’s been quite the whirl wind week since we picked her up. You think you’ve “puppy safed” the house, but she certainly has other ideas about that. She sleeps well at night which is good. She’s made it through the last two night with out whimpering to go outside.

She’s had her first bark too! I think she suprised herself as much as she surprised us. She was looking around with this confused “Where did that come from” look on her face.

Now, if we can just get this peeing and pooing outside thing down pat we’ll be golden.

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If you’d like to see more pics of her you can get to them here.

November 16, 2007

Coming into work sick

Filed under: Uncategorized — Tags: , , , , — anothergene @ 11:13 am

Killer Cold Virus Hits US  

Nothing annoys me more then people who are so sick they can barely stand up, but still insist on dragging themselves into work.  This is how pandemics start.

October 15, 2007

City of Winnipeg to seize dozens of derelict buildings

Filed under: Uncategorized — Tags: , , , — anothergene @ 12:32 pm

City of Winnipeg to seize dozens of derelict buildings

A lawyer who specializes in municipal issues, called the move “draconian.”

All I can say is  that it’s about f$^king time.  It’s an unusual move for such a non-progressive city as Winnipeg.  I really hope the owners don’t mire them down in court for years trying to get it appealed, even though they’ve been given many chances already to fix the properties.I love this quote:

“If you start taking away something that’s so fundamental in somebody’s life, you better have a really good policy reason for doing that, as opposed to choosing other methods to dealing with the problem.”

Give me a break.  The fact that these houses are boarded up and derelict makes it obvious that they are not fundamental in any one’s life.  This is the kind of guy that probably lives is Wosley and repsonsible for the lack of mosquito fogging that area.Now, if we could just get MPI to stop insuring the old gas guzzling, oil burning rust buckets on the streets we be a bit closer to being a nice place to live.g

September 7, 2007

WestJet flight’s sharp drop injures 9

Filed under: aviation, duh, news — anothergene @ 9:13 am

WestJet flight’s sharp drop injures 9

“Passengers say the pilot warned about the turbulence on the intercom, but many didn’t have time to secure their seatbelts when, seconds later, the plane dropped straight down.”

I believe this is why they warn you on every flight you have your seat belt fastened at all times while in your seat.  Even if the “fasten seat belt” sign is not lit.

August 21, 2007

Feed Addresses Changing

Filed under: administration, blog — anothergene @ 1:25 pm

Change is inevitable.  Don’t fear it, embrace it.  I’m piping all my feeds through Feed Burner now.  That includes the main feed for this blog and the comment feed as well.

The new feeds are

GeneMoreau.com/blog - http://feeds.feedburner.com/genemoreaudotcom

Comments - http://feeds.feedburner.com/commentsforgenemoreaudotcom

The old feeds will automatically redirect you through to the feedburner ones, so if you don’t understand any of this you don’t really have to do anything at all.  Great isn’t it?  you could always go find a 15 year old and have them do it too.

Of course, if you are a geek you will want to change these kind of things.  One reason to is to cut some of the lag provided free by my hosting company.  I won’t mention any names.  I guess that’s what you get when you cheap out and pay $10/month.

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