Archive for November, 2004

Take back the web: Firefox has gone 1.0

Tuesday, November 9th, 2004

Firefox, the finest, most secure Web browser ever created for average-user applications, went 1.0 today. You can download it below, toss out Internet Explorer, and be relatively assured that you computer won’t be compromised due to Microsoft’s bad design decisions and lax security maintenance. Download it here

Model United Nations: General Assembly

Tuesday, November 9th, 2004

The TRU Model UN club held its first General Assembly over the weekend. The two topics we faced were the weaponization of space and stem-cell research. Each of the ~20 participants were assigned a country to represent. The real challenge for our delegates was to research, not just the topic itself, but the official position [...]

Kamloops FireFox Release Party

Friday, November 5th, 2004

I am organizing a FireFox release party for Kamloops that will be held Friday November 19th. Here are the details:

We’re not in Vancouver anymore Toto

Monday, November 1st, 2004

Anyone familiar with Vancouver winters will tell you the two words ‘Vancouver’ and ‘winter’ hardly go together. It’s been a week or so since Kamloops received a very light dusting of snow in the higher elevations of the region, and despite being pretty high up from the city, we escaped those few flakes. After dropping [...]