Wednesday, 14 May 2008

Google abandons its FeedBurner Users

It used to be if you had a problem with FeedBurner you could go to the forum that was monitored by technical support and receive help within a few hours.

The email subscribers to FeedBurner feeds have been lost for two days for many many bloggers. The so called Google Feedburner Help Group (un-monitored), meant to replace the Feedburner forum, is littered with 50 or more posts asking for help. But no help is comming. No information on the status of the problem has arrived. We are just left to wonder in limbo if our email subscribers will ever be able to receive another update.

Blogger, that is owned by Google as well. Blogger's slogan is "No subscriber left behind" Where are you now Google?

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Friday, 9 May 2008

Does Our Prime Minister Know Recent Canadian History???

Prime Minister Harper either through his own ignorance or banking on the Canadian public's ignorance said in Parliament:



Hon. Stéphane Dion (Leader of the Opposition, Lib.):
Mr. Speaker, on the eve of World Press Freedom Day, the government took another step to limit transparency and accountability. It quietly killed the CAIRS, which allowed
everyone to know what information Canadians had requested
about their government through access to information.
Why did the government shut down the registry? What does it have to hide?


Right Hon. Stephen Harper (Prime Minister,
CPC):
In fact, Mr. Speaker, this is a government that has actually widened access to information. The database in question was created by the previous Liberal government. It was called the product of a political system in which centralized control was an obsession. That is why the government got rid of it.

Survey says..... WRONG As it turns out CAIRS came into existence under the Mulroney administration... OPPS... Maybe Mr Harper thought that since he had cut access to CAIRS no one would able to check on his claim so quickly.



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Tuesday, 6 May 2008

The Torie Hokey Pokey

You put the funds in,
You take the funds out,
You put the funds in and you move them all about
You shred some documents and you stall and stall and stall
And that’s what it’s all about.

You put the info in
You take the access out
You put the info in and lock the media out
You call yourself transparent and you spin and spin and spin
And that’s what it’s all about

You put the budget in
You take the services out
You put the budget in and the poor are down and out
You call you call yourself righteous and you gloat an gloat an gloat
And that’s what it’s all about

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