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This is the conclusion of the three part series about Windows Vista, for parts 1 and 2, click here and here.
In 2001, Windows XP was released to the world. At the time, it was Microsoft’s best operating system release. Windows Vista improved on it in nearly every way. Let me say that again. Windows Vista [...]

This is part 2 of my article about Windows Vista, and why it failed, and why it shouldn’t have.  For part one, click Here.
Author’s note:  Part 2 had originally been intended to be an article about what makes Windows Vista a good operating system. That will now be featured in part 3.
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As Microsoft prepares Windows 7 for release this October, I wanted to take a look back at Windows Vista. Windows Vista is the most stable, most secure, and has the most innovations of any operating system Microsoft has ever made. It is also their second biggest failure(the ill conceived Windows ME holds that distinction). The [...]

For those of you living in Alberta, Bill 44 has become a very large issue.  It has the ability to limit classroom discussion about religion, sexuality, and homosexuality by requiring parents be notified before these topics are discussed in school as well as giving parents the ability to remove their children from the classroom if [...]

For those of you who don’t know, I’m pretty much a Star Trek nut.  My dad was the one who got me into Star Trek when I was young, during the hey day of The Next Generation(TNG).  For years TNG was Star Trek to me.  I kind of watched Deep Space 9(DS9) but for many [...]

So the city, faced with a 35 million dollar shortfall needs to try to come closer to breaking even.  The City Administration came up with a plan.  One that horrifies me.  The highlights are:

Retire the trolley bus fleet immediately, instead of April 2010
Charging people to park at LRT stations
charging more for parking at city facilities
cutting [...]

A couple of days ago, the public was made aware that the City of Edmonton was planning on having a unisex, or communal, change room at the new Queen Elizabeth outdoor pool.  This was something I had heard about almost a year ago.  The city believes that this is the way of the future, and [...]