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Twitter Updates for 2009-02-25

Lifestream Daily Digest for February 24th http://shortna.me/dec1d # @ethank Cypress is better than Grouse. See you on Sky Chair! in reply to ethank # What’s this obsession Vigneault has for putting #Pyatt out for the last two minutes when the #Canucks are down...

The Yellow Pages: Adapt or die?

While there is much kvetching and hand-wringing of late regarding impending demise of the dead-tree business (sic) that is the newspaper industry, there is another dead-tree business that is descending quickly toward irrelevance:  The Yellow Pages. Every year,...

More photos, little information from C-17 crash at Bagram

This a follow up on this incident… My earlier article regarding a string of C-17 mishaps and runway overshoots at Bagram has drawn quite a bit of traffic lately, and no small number of comments criticizing my attempt at analysis.  While looking around for a...

Another C-17 incident at Bagram

Last week a US Air Force C-17 transport plane (tail #96-0002) made a dazzling nighttime “wheels up” belly landing at Bagram Air Base in Aghanistan sending sparks and flames higher than the tailplane (which on the C-17 is five stories high).  The crash led...

Should Canada bail out Nortel?

Om has a piece today written by Venture Capitalist Allan Leinwand asking whether Canada should bail out Nortel.  He asks:  “But is preserving the country’s technological heritage reason enough to spend millions in taxpayers dollars?” I think that...