Kelly Hu

I think that it would be a lot of fun to be the guy who has to brush the water on her. I wonder how you get that job. I doubt that the guy gets paid that much though, why would you have to :)

Spring?

I may be jinxing this just by saying it, but I think that Spring is finally here. We had a very strange winter, lots of snow which was usually followed by lots of rain. This meant that you still had to shovel, but the pile you made was usually gone in a week or 2. Of course I don’t shovel, I live in an apartment :)

So instead of the huge piles of dirty snow that usually grace the parking lots, we have none. And it is nice.

I walked out the door this morning and could smell the fresh salty air. It is not warm enough for the raw sewage smell yet, but that should be less now that we are doing primary treatment….

So now that it is spring and the NHL Play-offs have started, I don’t think that I will be spending a lot of time online. My plan is to again put some of my sites in auto-mode, and during the first nasty evening where I don’t want to leave the house, update all of my software, and scripts.

My only “new” projects that I am going to be working on is modifying one of my sites to be a blog that I can modify easier, and the other is to start a new blog for some of the things that I do at work. Maybe I will even update my personal site that has my resume on it….

Net Neutrality in Canada

It has finally come to a head. The main stream media has realized that there is something to this Net Neutrality thing. Recently it was brought up in the House of Commons and the Minister of Industry had a less than confident response.

Instead of my writing here what the story is all about I will let Amber MacArthur do the talking. She does a decent job of describing what Net Neutrality is, however I don’t think that she gets across the implications of “traffic shaping”. The fear is that the large ISPs will start to slow down services that may compete with options that they offer. Basically shutting down the start-ups and not allowing competition. This will lead to more monoplistic tendancies and overall will hurt the internet economy.

For some really good articles on Net Neutrailty and theimplications if the net is not neutral read this and this

The first is from the guy that developed the Internet and the second invented the WWW.