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• Blogging’s Eventual Convergence with Instant Messaging

  November 27th, 2004 at 5:37pm | 1 Comment

  When I finished setting-up this blog, one of the first things I did was change my IM nickname to “brad.touesnard.com” hoping that my friends, family, colleagues, and acquaintainces would visit this site when they saw me in their IM contact list. And it worked. But what happens when I don’t post anything for a while? ... read more »

• Thesis Topic Chosen

  November 27th, 2004 at 3:13am | No Comments

  I met with Professor Andrew McAllister a couple of weeks ago and confirmed my honors thesis topic with him. Although unofficial, the title will be something like “Design and Implementation of a Universal Web Application Installer.” The idea for this application came to me as I was adding yet another web application to the Zenutech ... read more »

• Update: Parliament Forms Trans Fats Task Force

  November 27th, 2004 at 2:04am | No Comments

  Update to my previous post “Trans Fats May be Banned in Canada“. Well, the NDP got the ball rolling as they said they would by introducing a motion in the House of Commons on November 18th to outlaw trans fats. After only a day of debating, parliament announced the formation of a task force that ... read more »

  Tags: Politics

• Trans Fats May be Banned in Canada

  November 12th, 2004 at 11:04pm | 3 Comments

  As a follow up to my previous post “Super Size Me and China’s Superiority“, Canoe.ca is reporting that the NDP of Canada “…will introduce a motion in the House of Commons on Nov. 18 to outlaw the unhealthy fats found in everything from fast food to peanut butter. Canadians eat an average of 10 grams ... read more »

  Tags: Politics

• Super Size Me and China’s Superiority

  November 10th, 2004 at 12:22pm | No Comments

  I watched the documentary film Super Size Me a couple of days ago and it really opened my eyes to the fast food epidemic currently plaguing the United States. I am not using the term “epidemic” loosely here either, obesity has been declared a national epidemic in the US. According to statistics from the NCHS, ... read more »

  Tags: Movies

• Ignorance is Bliss…well, at least for 59,054,087 Americans

  November 8th, 2004 at 2:07am | No Comments

  They ignored that he lied to them, they ignored that he is not looking after them, and they re-elected him. “They” are just over half of Americans and “he” is George Walker Bush. I wonder how many American citizens actually know what the “W” in George W. Bush means. Maybe just under half? It is ... read more »

  Tags: Politics