I got a panicky e-mail from a friend the other day it said in part: Please pass this on! Important police warning. Very scary, now moving east....started in Manitoba, now in Saskatchewan, and moving west.... If you are driving after dark and you see a car without its head-lights on, do not flash your lights, do not blow your horn or make any signals to the driver of the other car. So of course, my BS detector kicked in so I googled the name in the e-mail that was supposed to be from the RCMP and of course - it's a hoax - here's the full story http://www.snopes.com/horrors/madmen/lightsout.asp and specific to this particular e-mail http://www.canoe.ca/mb2/messages/cnewsf/11377.html The RCMP does not generally circulate e-mail alerts on the Internet to the public - if you check their home page at http://www.rcmp-grc.gc.ca they offer all of their current bulletins and statements in their news area at http://www.rcmp.ca/news/news_e.htm and there's nothing there about it. There ...
I was reading this article on the iPad and Windows at Paul Thurott's site. Understanding iPad http://ping.fm/Qjsym And watching all the hype around the arrival of the "magical" device in Canada and around the world. As Paul mentioned it is promoted as "a revolutionary device" aimed at key computing scenarios only--"browsing the web, reading and sending email , enjoying photos, watching videos, listening to music, playing games, reading e-books and much more." Sort of what I'm doing now - with my tablet PC's and smartphones. I've been keeping a low profile on the mac vs PC fan boys firefights and staying neutral on this. I've always been neutral on the Mac vs PC stuff. When I was DiT at Stentor - we had to support both platforms - so I was always a platform agnostic. (other than those Linux geeks hiding in the server farm who didn't want any support from the IT guys and thought they could run the network better than the engin...
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