As for Trudeau, perhaps you missed his performance during the October Crisis of 1970 or the fact that he alone amoung Canadan PM's in my lifetime stood up to the bullying of the Quebec separatists.

Its ironic that you claim to defend Western values, but can't get beyond personal insults.

Let me tell you...I'm well aware of the warts on my country. Given your sanctimonious tone early on, I just thought it prudent to remind you what the rest of the world sees. Your country claims to be the leader of the free world; all the rest of the world wants is for you to walk the talk. Perhaps the election this fall will move you in that direction. Posted 23/02/08 at 2:59 AM EST | Alert an Editor | Link to Comment .

I'm putting the claws away this year, L-bear

Ah, Winterfest. The city of Lowell's knock-off of Germany's Oktoberfest.

Hold the phone Mr. City Manager. I am not one to bash anything that has to do with consuming mass amounts of beer in public. We all need a little happiness here in New England after the incident that happened this past Sunday. I won't mention any names ... Tom, Randy and Tedy. It's going to take more than a six-pack to cure this girl's depression.

Winterfest could just be the remedy that I am looking for. What better way to spend a weekend than watching semi-plastered people pull a human dog sled?

You want a pot hole filled on Chelmsford Street, the Rourke Bridge replaced, the homeless people left alone or your tax rate to go down? Then act like a paparazzi when and if Britney Spears takes a ride in a hearse.

Most Super Bowl Commercials Forgot Closed Captioning

This could be on their production side (the spot isn't ready till the absolute last second, and there's no time to caption and master it), or on the broadcast side (they aren't easy to interface with to broadcast the captions for the commercials), or lack of interest (they don't feel 'obligated' to caption the commercial).

Category: MySpace

But the expectations for Amazon's infrastructure service for uptime may be unrealistic. Amazon is not enterprise-ready–99.99 (52.6 minutes of downtime annually) or 99.999 (5.26 minutes of downtime annually). At least Amazon has a service level agreement. The SLA states that Amazon will "use commercially reasonable efforts to make Amazon S3 available with a Monthly Uptime Percentage (defined below) of at least 99.9% [8.76 hours of downtime per year] during any monthly billing cycle (the 'Service Commitment'). In the event Amazon S3 does not meet the Service Commitment, you will be eligible to receive a Service Credit as described below."

We also discuss the major management shuffle at Microsoft (Mary Jo Foley has the line up, complete with photos), the latest twist and turns in Microsoft's pursuit of Yahoo and the adoption of Enterprise 2.0 technologies in corporations.

Chinese manufacturer Penchan has done it! A 5.5 terapixel camera!

Who woulda thunk it? The Chinese company Penchan has developed a camera with a whopping 5.5 Terapixel resolution, or in layman's terms, 5,500,000 megapixels. Yes, really. We just got off the phone to Canon and Nikon and it's safe to say, they're petrified.