Cole's Notes - The Sunday Journalist

Now I'm no Jefferson - but I've been following Ezra Levant and Mark Steyn's troubles with the HRC. And for what it's worth - I think the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms is about due for it's First Amendment. Sort of along the lines of this: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances. Which is of course, the First Amendment to the American Consitution. Now as I said, I'm not a Jefferson, but when it comes to amending the Charter of Rights and Freedoms my humble suggestion would be as follows: We the People of Canada, require and direct the Government of Canada, Parliament, Legislatures, and government agencies to make no law or regulation, or use any regulatory body of Canada to abridge the right of Freedom of expression. They sh...

Well, for the beginning of 2008, I've shut down my Facebook account. Orginally I got the account to help me manage my personal e-mail contacts, my social network as they say, and I have LinkedIn for my business contacts, hotmail for my instant messaging, and this Blog for posting stuff. Like a lot of folks who are online a lot, I have a couple of e-mail addresses on Gmail and other systems all of which have e-mail adress books and the number of addresses in all the books has reached over 300, so it's becoming unmanageable. So in the beginning of December, I signed up for Plaxo - the Beta of which calls itself "Your address book for Life" which is what I needed to sync all the addresses from all the accounts, clean up the duplicates and update the addresses I have. Heck it even helped me send out Christmas cards this year, and update addresses from folks I talk to regularly. Now if you use Plaxo - you're probably saying "Wait a minute - you can bridge your F...