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Canadian content regulations are probably the primary reason why I listen to online audio streams instead of radio - no such restrictions apply there (at least not yet).

Canadian content regulations are a good reason to advocate for NOT buying Canadian music:

1. Such regulations overexpose Canadians to Canadian artists. As a result, Canadians are more likely to get tired of the music of Canadian artists after hearing the same song way too many times.
2. Since they represent only a small fraction of the worldwide community of artists, the Canadian artists to which I'm exposed will be of lower average quality than international artists to which which I'm exposed.

According to the Calgary Herald, the CRTC (Canadian equivalent of the US FCC) will be holding consultations this year as to whether or not they should try to extend these content regulations to the internet.

I'd hope for sanity by the CRTC, but that may be too much to ask. This is the same government agency quicker to grant for approval for cable companies in Canada to carry Al Jazeera (known for, amongst other things, occasionally calling for the death of all Jews) than something like Fox News.

Somehow I spent $1000 on a digicam in Spring 2006 (a Nikon D50), and then, by and large, stopped using it.

A quick look at my photo galleries shows that I took half as many photos in 2007 as I did in 2006, and 2006 was a year in which I show about 30% fewer photos than 2005. Somehow I wound up shooting more photos on film (incremental cost per photo taken) than I did on digital (virtually no incremental cost per photo).

On my last few trips back home it often seems that my camera just sits in its case until I head to the airport for the flight back. Then someone comments something like "you never used your camera", and then a few silly photos wind up getting taken. This is one of those (more here).

A Polish teenager allegedly turned the tram system in the city of Lodz into his own personal train set, triggering chaos and derailing four vehicles in the process. Twelve people were injured in one of the incidents.

... "He studied the trams and the tracks for a long time and then built a device that looked like a TV remote control and used it to manoeuvre the trams and the tracks," said Miroslaw Micor, a spokesman for Lodz police.

"He had converted the television control into a device capable of controlling all the junctions on the line and wrote in the pages of a school exercise book where the best junctions were to move trams around and what signals to change.

(More details at The Register)

I made a day trip down to Lethbridge today to visit Mark, Jaclyn and Miriam. Of course, being me, I wound up with no people photos but a few bridge photos.

An arrival in Lethbridge at sunrise got me a good view of the rising sun (note to self: don't drive directly east at sunrise), and about an hour and a half standing around in the snow waiting for objects to pass across that bridge - none showed - before wandering off to church.