Posted by Mathieu Jobin
Tue, 31 Jan 2006 07:51:00 GMT | 1 comment
Last week I caught an article in the daily paper 24hours which was warning marijuana users because they found pot in Surrey and Delta (BC) that had crystal meth mixed with it. This is getting very dangerous.
Those guys really want to get people addicted. This is crazy. Actually, I can't understand how 9-13 years old kids can try this very hard stuff? Who the hell is squatting around our schools to offer this to kids?
Although fighting dealers and searching for labs is very important, I still consider our government and police force does not attack the problem on the right front. Looks like people are not learning really fast about problem solving techniques. I feel we are still in the 50ies.
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Posted in Drugs, English
Posted by Mathieu Jobin
Thu, 26 Jan 2006 09:13:00 GMT | no comments
I run ran into this website and thought I should be sharing it with you guys. I was searching for various information about timezones and found this tool.
calling overseas can be so confusing sometimes, international dialing code + country code + very unusualy phone number. sometimes you got to remove few digits from the original phone number. anyway, If you are like me and don't call overseas often, I'm sure you are confused as well.
Well, the pain is behind, just select where you calling from, where you calling to, entering the phone number and this webtool will correct it for you and actually explain you clearly everything. Quite Neat I found.
Posted in Tech / Computers / Programming, English
Posted by Mathieu Jobin
Thu, 26 Jan 2006 08:49:00 GMT | no comments
Hail to Mr Harper. Well, they finally got in, eh ? Not a big surprise since almost nobody wanted the liberal to stay in place. I find it so sad that people are only voting against the Liberal and going simply for the second biggest without really much more thinking.
Its quite interresting to see how close the Conservative and the Liberals are. It took lots of efforts from the Conservative to win (16 more seats in Ontario and 10 new one in Quebec) and still the Liberal are showing the close presence. It definitely shows how easy it is for the liberal the win in normal terms. Every province are splitting the vote.
I wish it would be possible to have a minority governement to last. Where all the parties are working together toward fixing all issues. Is it possible ? I don't know but it feels like it's how it should be in the future. no more parties, no more elections, just bunch of concerned people and experts working toward a common goal. what do you guys think ?
Anyway, I think the next year or so will be interresting. I just hope we won't get $300 millions worth elections every two years. because I don't think its the way canadians wants their money to be spent. Even though I'm sure politians have hell of a time travelling accross canada for two full months.
any inputs ?
Posted in Canadian Politics, English
Posted by Mathieu Jobin
Fri, 20 Jan 2006 06:08:00 GMT | no comments
La campagne électoral tire a sa fin, le vote est lundi. Les dernières semaines ont été très émouvantes. Malheureusement, j'ai peur que les gens ne voterons pas en se basant vraiment sur leur valeur personnel.
N: ouin ya comme une vague conservateur ici
Voici un example de ce que je pense. C'est exactement ce qui ne va pas avec les elections canadienne. Les gens suivent la vague, alors qu'il faudrait plutôt l'ignorer.
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Posted in Canadian Politics, Français
Posted by Mathieu Jobin
Fri, 20 Jan 2006 04:22:00 GMT | 1 comment
Wow ! Finally got my Blog Up. Been thinking about it for so long. I'm sure there is a very good existencial reason why I did not do it before.
Here is a preview of what I may talk in the future here.
- Tech news / discoveries
- Just Budget news and improvements
- Political, Sociology, Philosophy, Evolutions thoughts.
- Travel log of my trip in Japan coming up in March.
- probably some other things I can't think of right now.
Additionnaly I'm gonna have post in both english and french, trying to satisfy all my readers.
I hope you'll have a good time reading me.
Posted in Random Thoughts, Intro, English
