A survey in Canada has found that Canadian Muslims are glad and proud to be Canadian.No wonder, since this comes on the heal of a worldwide survey that found that Canadians are the least prejudiced against Muslims in Western countries. The survey also found that Canadian Muslims:
Although a survey in Summer of 2006 found that Muslims are viewed negatively by Canadians, Canada is at the forefront of nations when it comes to its people's view on Muslims.A recent survey of Canada, the United States, Australia, New Zealand and 19 European countries found that Canada has the least prejudice towards Muslims.
In November 2006, the conservative led government in Canada has proposed income splitting for retired couples, but say would not do it for others.Now, the Finance minister is leaving the door open for income splitting for others.It should be noted that a couple earning $40,000 a year each would pay $3,500 less than if one of them is the sole earner and makes $80,000 a year.
Earlier, I wrote about how to use a USB 2.0 hard disk drive enclosure for backup.
In this article, I explain how to use that hard disk using the dump utility.
The dump utility is one of the oldest commands for backup on UNIX system, but not one that is widely used in home and small business Linux systems.
A while ago, the BBC reported on a poll conducted in Egypt by a government agency. The poll of 1,000 Egyptians was surprising in its findings. Israel was perceived as the most hostile to to Egypt, which is in itself no surprise. However, it is followed by Denmark, Britain and the United States, in that order!
Do you know someone who graduated from the E.G.C. that turned out to be a famous personality?If so, please add a comment below with the name and year they graduated, and a brief introduction on why this person is famous.
From yet another case of life imitating humor, there is this article on how Caucho's Quercas PHP implementation in Java was used to run Drupal.Another post by Dave Herron on Resin's PHP support, and using Drupal as a test for that. What is scary is that this is indeed a case of life imitating humor.
After an extremely mild second half of December, and first half of January, cold weather finally arrived.The January cold snap has set in, causing outdoor hockey rinks to fill up with people exercising with their sticks.Temperatures as low as -21C have been recorded during the last week.An elderly woman of 91 years went out of the retirement home she lived in at 5 am, in -22C temperature, and was found frozen to death 200 metres by a passer by at 9 am.A
Over the last 8 months or so, there has been a noticeable rise in spam that touts certain penny stocks.
The scheme works like this:
After the worldwide scare of bird flu, Egypt saw several cases. Not surprising since Egypt is on one of the main migratory routes for birds from Europe and Asia south to Africa. The flu is caused by a strain of avian influenza virus called H5N1. Governments have been stockpiling Tamiflu, an oral medication for flu, in anticipation of a worldwide pandemic.
Various little bits of information ...
Most Comments
Most commented on articles ...