I am a proud sponsor of Arif Hawlader through the World Vision program. He’s a three year old boy from Bangladesh. I didn’t watch any program on TV or the sort, I was simply doing laundry when a canvasser knocked on my door. A young man of nineteen started giving his pitch on the program. I interrupted him with my spiel about how the economy hasn’t been lending me much of a helping hand lately. Well, you can guess who won that pitch-off.

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I received a Pearl White PSP go as an early Christmas gift. This hand-held game is just slightly wider than a point-and-shoot digital camera. It is attractive and operates similar to the PS3 console. The “go” comes with 16GB of Flash Memory with expandable memory space through the Sony M2 media stick (sold separately).

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Tags: game,mac,music,PC,pictures,PlayStation,PS3,PSP go,Sony,Soul Calibur,UMD,videos
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It’s official! BC’s Information and Privacy Commissioner, David Loukidelis, has ruled against Vancouver’s Barwatch Program and to cease the scanning of patron’s IDs as a condition for entering the establishments. The Commissioner Office, however, is leaving the door open for consultations with Barwatch.

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Facebook Private Policy page

The issue of Facebook and its users’ privacy agreements has surfaced in the news once again. Not surprisingly the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada has found that Facebook’s practices, such as sharing users’ information with third party developers and maintaining users’ information indefinitely, breach Canadian privacy laws. (This is why I don’t add on those silly Facebook applications.)

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Tags: Canadian privacy laws,facebook,friendster,myspace,PIPEDA,Privcy Commissioner of Canada,third-party developers,university life
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12B Hallway

A girlfriend of mine recently celebrated her birthday at some person’s place. Turns out, this person runs a unique dining concept of running a home restaurant. Actually, this concept is not very new… In fact, it’s very old! This is probably the oldest  form of a restaurant.

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Tags: 12b,artworks,chef,dining,restaurant,vancouver
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