Apr 25th, 2007 by Christopher Mercer in Politics, Science, Environment
It is not being covered on the news today, especially in the local media, but the federal government announced today that the sale of “inefficient” bulbs will be banned by 2012. That is a 4 year and 8 months period before you will be unable to buy incandescent bulbs or other forms of energy-inefficient […]
Apr 18th, 2007 by Christopher Mercer in Academics, Policy, Security
Originally, I was going to write a piece on intellectual property in my university but during a chat over coffee with my good friend Dennis Rice I have something else one my mind.
With the tragic events that have unfolded this week at Virginia Tech a lot of schools will be looking at their emergency readiness […]
As many of you may have noticed I have switched from using Nucleus to Word press on the advice and constant coaxing from Mike Grouchy. I will be playing with the look, and organization of the site soon enough, but for now content is king. Enjoy!
Apr 11th, 2007 by Christopher Mercer in Digital Life
Facebook has introduced its new look and what a pleasant update! I just happened to be online last night around the time the change went down and ended up spending a few hours online checking out the new Networks pages (one for each network you belong), the revamped navigation, and the updated Inbox which […]
Apr 10th, 2007 by Christopher Mercer in General
For those of you interested in stats here are a few about this site.
According to my site tracking software (no I can’t identity you personally!) 61% of my site visitors are new, 39% are returning. Of that
36% are from google
26% are direct visitors
16% are “others”
10% are directed from Mike Grouchy.com
6% are from […]
Apr 8th, 2007 by Christopher Mercer in Copyright
It is a fairly obvious and logical train of thought. Governments are funded by taxpayers to operate on behalf of those same taxpayers. So any programs, property, or information, developed in course by said government should be openly accessible by the citizens.
Most people won’t really see this particular issue as being of any […]
