Vote for your Federal Party/Leader/Candidate today. Get out of the house and VOTE! As I said before, if you don’t vote, you have no right to complain about your government. If you don’t know where you’re polling station is or what you need to bring, check here. Make a choice and influence the direction our country takes.
So…
Thank you to the 59.1% of voters who turned out to vote for your favorite candidate. Thank you for voting at all. Its too bad that most thought that the Conservatives should deserve to ream our country for another term. I hope that I’m wrong and that the majority knows best…
I’ve decided that some of the things that I listen to might be of interest to others. There are many services out there where you can suggest music choices to others, like Last.fm and (sort of) Amazon’s suggestions when you’re browsing their pages.
What if you want to listen to music somewhere besides the web site’s flash player? The answer is to listen at sites like Magnatune and Jamendo. I’ve been frequenting Jamendo more, so I will focus on it right now. The site allows you to listen to music that ha been licensed with the Creative Commons license, allowing the artist to share their art in any way that they wish. Read the license (it IS a bit legalese, but worth reading) and see why freedom might be a good thing for you.
The thing that I like about these sites is that they offer you an easy way to download the music that the artists want you to have and if you like it, you can send them some money. Unlike the model where the recording companies take all of the money for a very long time, and if the album does EXTREMELY well, the artist might see a small slice of it, most, if not all, of the money you “pay” goes to the artist. This is a much better model.
So, go listen. Create an account. Donate to the artists that you like, if you can. if you can’t donate,spread the word about what you found, so that others can.
My first recommendation is Josh Woodward - The Simple Life. This is an excellent album with good playing and excellent songwriting. It’s tagged:pop,rock,indie,accoustic,lyrical
In case the propaganda from the Conservative party (yes, I am declaring that I will definitely NOT be voting for them) has passed you by, and that you use my blog as a source of the best news, I want to let you know that Tuesday, October 14th is federal election day in Canada. Please go vote. i don’t care who you vote for, as long as you think about it first. If you are eligible to vote and you don’t, you really can’t be complaining about what the government does because you didn’t participate in the process.
Once again, please go and vote. If you can’t make it to your polling station, call the office of the candidate that you would want in power and they will get you a ride to the station, I am sure!
Don’t forget to turn out the lights when you leave the room. I’ll be “turning out the lights” on my communication for a day or two, likely. We’re moving house after tonight, so I’ll see ya on the flip side.
Updated: Looks like we’re going to have to park the truck really close to the house.
from http://www.theweathernetwork.com :
RAINFALL WARNING: Fredericton and Southern York County
Issued at 4:34 AM ADT SATURDAY 27 SEPTEMBER 2008
RAINFALL AMOUNTS OVER 50 MILLIMETRES ARE EXPECTED IN THESE REGIONS OVER THE NEXT 24-48 HOURS.
TROPICAL STORM KYLE IS CURRENTLY SOUTHWEST OF BERMUDA AND IS EXPECTED TO REACH HURRICANE STRENGTH THIS MORNING AS IT MOVES NORTHWARD. KYLE IS FORECAST TO MAKE LANDFALL AS A STRONG TROPICAL STORM NEAR YARMOUTH NOVA SCOTIA SUNDAY OVERNIGHT THEN TRACK JUST EAST OF SAINT JOHN NEW BRUNSWICK EARLY MONDAY MORNING TO REACH ANTICOSTI ISLAND MONDAY EVENING. RAIN ASSOCIATED WITH A NON RELATED FRONTAL SYSTEM OVER THE CAROLINAS WILL AFFECT MOST OF THE PROVINCE TODAY. RAINFALL AMOUNTS IN EXCESS OF 50 MILLIMETRES ARE EXPECTED BY TONIGHT OVER WESTERN NEW BRUNSWICK. ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AND WIND WARNINGS COULD POTENTIALLY BE ISSUED AS KYLE REACHES THE SOUTHEASTERN PART OF THE PROVINCE MONDAY MORNING.
That’s my traffic stat for the rss and atom feeds to this site. That’s significant. There are many sites who have ignored this and suffered because of it. Do you think about your feeds? Now, for anyone who does read this site via rss feed (or the 4.17% who use atom), let me know what you think of the presentation in your feed, if you feel like it. You can send me an email (see the link above in the menu bar), or comment on this post (which means that you’ll have to click out of your feed reader). I’ve disabled hotlinking for images, so some feed services won’t show them. Let me know if that bothers you, as well. I just don’t want to enable some bandwidth thief to bother with my images. I want to make them go to the work of saving my images and uploading them to their own hosting, as I have.
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