Foreign policy will be one of the main issues in the next election. Embassy, Canada’s Foreign Policy Newsweekly, is one of the sources we use to stay informed.
Archive for September, 2006
This database contains only a small fraction of the ships worldwide, those that participate in the World Meteorological Organization’s program of voluntary at-sea weather reporting. The database also contains vessels with US radio licenses. For the most part military vessels are excluded, but occasionally a Coast Guard ship will make a report.
The US Coast Guard maintains another database of ship names, callsigns, and inspection reports. The French Marine Meteorological Center maintains a database of VOS reporting vessels.
Ship reporting for the large North European seaports of Antwerp, Bremen, Hamburg, Rotterdam and Amsterdam may be found at Europort.
Smart Crook finds operator’s manual for an ATM machine on the Internet. Crook gets prepaid & untraceable debit card.
The Smart Crook finds an ATM still using the manufacturer’s default password. He then reprograms it to think it is handing out $5 bills not $20 bills. The Smart Crook takes his extra money and leaves. Nine days later, some honest person reports that she got too much money from the machine.
CNN reports the crime, now a lot of Not-So-Smart Crooks know how to do this.
BBC NEWS | Country Profiles Offers an instant guide to history, politics and economic background of countries and territories, and background on key institutions.
They also include audio or video clips from BBC archives.
The Eyewitness Identification Research Laboratory, at the University of Texas, is the place to go if you need information on issues surrounding eyewitness identification.
Flightview lets you track the progress of a flight, with a 3 minute delay, if you provide the airlines and flight number. At the FlightAware site you can track non-commercial planes by tail number, or search by airport to view all air traffic.
For more of the same google “flight tracking”
Living and practicising lawyers are not too difficult to find. Each province and territory has a Law Society, most offer a search for a member lawyer, for example, The Law Society of Upper Canada, or you can search the Marindale & Hubbel directory. But what does one do if the lawyer you are seeking is dead, disbarred, or retired?
WordWeb 4.5a can be used to look up words from almost any program. It installs as an icon in the Taskbar and takes-up very little system resources. It is small, fast, works with any program, and best of all FREE.
A frivolous email campaign during 2001 to have people record their religion as “Jedi” on the national censuses of Australia, Canada, New Zealand, England, and Whales was surprisingly effective in distorting the census results.
This campaign succeeded in having 70,000 people in Australia record their religion as Jedi, 20,000 in Canada, and 53,000 in New Zealand. In England and Whales 390,000 stated their religion as Jedi, surpassing Sikhism, Judaism, and Buddhism, and making it the fourth largest reported religion.
If you have ever wondered how to find the US Government documents mentioned in the news, then check-out this excellent article by Peggy Garvin at http://www.llrx.com/columns/govdomain19.htm
