Robert J Turner

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Islandnet.com allows you to define your own temp location in your gosting account for any PHP file movement and manipulation and I was having issues getting Wordpress to work but turns out I had a permissions issue with the wp-content folder and when I fixed that I can upgrade plugins and wordpress without manual FTP to the account.

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BY DON MARTIN, CANWEST NEWS SERVICE

MAY 28, 2009

Boring governors general of the past, eat your hearts out. Michaelle Jean is heading into history as the monarchy’s most memorable Canadian representative.

When Her Excellency swallowed raw seal heart she’d sliced out of the fresh corpse using a traditional Inuit evisceration device, an apparently unscripted move Monday that captured global attention, it became her most captivating or controversial act.

About the only competition prompting more water cooler conversation was her December move to grant Stephen Harper’s government a death-defying prorogation of Parliament to fend off a tri-party coalition lusting after power. Had the prime minister known then what he knows now, he might’ve taken the fall and let the Liberals wear the recession’s $50-billion-plus deficit. Maybe he did have second thoughts and that’s why their pre-prorogation chat dragged on for two hours, but I digress.

Jean’s culinary salute to northern culture has redefined her as a royal representative of all Canadians and proved she’s no squeamish squealer at the sight of blood. It was the perfect symbolic act as she approaches what could be her final year in the royal role, an appointment approaching its fourth anniversary this summer.

With a quick gulp of bloody meat she alleges tastes like sushi, she showcased a little-known culture and boldly defended a traditional way of hunting with some subtle diplomatic messaging aimed at giving European trade-banished seal hunters a morale boost.

The negative global bleeding hearts’ reaction and bizarre People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals call for a retaliatory global boycott of Canadian maple syrup–who could’ve believed tapping trees would ever be considered inhumane–will only boost her domestic popularity.

An Ottawa talk radio station whose listeners are heavily tilted toward the right, an audience that would place any former artsy CBC journalist like Jean one degree of separation away from Lucifer himself, gave her action an 83 per cent nod of approval on Wednesday.

Love her, loath her or think she’s just plain weird, there’s no arguing Michaelle Jean has raised the royal standard into a colourful art form that paints her predecessors in many shades of grey.

With the possible exception of Adrienne Clarkson, the parade of governors general spanning the past three decades has been publicly perceived as staid and stone-faced, partisan appointments going through ceremonial obligations with no apparent enthusiasm before retreating behind closed doors to down lavish state dinners.

The most dramatic move under Romeo LeBlanc’s reign was removing the lion’s tongue from the viceregal flag while producing a son, Dominic, who is a Liberal MP and my early odds-on favourite to replace leader Michael Ignatieff.

Jeanne Sauve’s defining act was to close the grounds of Rideau Hall to public strolling. Ray Hnatyshyn and Ed Schreyer left a stately legacy of . . . zzzzzz.

But while Jean went through an apathetic one-year period some speculate was health-related, she’s picked up the pace in the past couple of years. There have been returning-hero trips to her native Haiti, an extensive tour of Africa and multiple visits to most provinces and the Arctic.

Even in the national capital, she’s got a quirky side that defies stuffy convention. Jean recently took the stage of a performing arts gala to sing–and if there’s been a singing governor general before, we’ve been spared the listening pleasure.

Now that she’s proven herself to have an iron gut for creepy cuisine, perhaps it’s time to taste Canada’s other unique culinary creations.

Might I suggest prairie oysters (bull testicles) from Alberta, seal flipper pie (self-explanatory) from Newfoundland or sampling a cut of that pale white meat that a slaughterhouse manager told me was the most valuable part of the cow on a price-per-kilogram basis. Apparently, he insists, bovine rectum is a valuable delicacy somewhere in Asia. You couldn’t pay me enough to eat that stuff.

Far from being heartless to animal suffering, her Arctic snack has sealed Jean’s status as a worthy torchbearer for a Queen who, and this is just a hunch, would probably demand her seal organs seasoned, sauteed and served on silver.

dmartin@canwest.com

© Copyright (c) Canwest News Service

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Yes,  its true,  working for Islandnet.com can be so exciting at times when things like this are announced,  We ate BETA testing ASP and PHP, Python, Ruby etc all in the same hosting space.  I don’t know anyone else that does this.

Here is announcement that we made recently:

We’ve successfully tested ASP and ASP.NET support through our cluster and can now open it up to customers as a beta feature.

Unlike other sites where you would have to choose between a UNIX or Windows based server, and place your files on one or the other, our solution works with our existing servers and control panel, etc. No need to relocate files or change DNS or anything like that. It also means you can have a mix of PHP, ASP, Perl, etc. all under one domain.

Before ASP scripts will work you must request that we enable it for your site. This is on a per domain basis. Once it’s enabled you simply upload your ASP files and access them like any other pages. It supports Access databases too. I’ve been testing it by running ASP based guestbooks, galleries, and forums in my own account.

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Larry was a unique individual, when I first met him he gave me rather a frightening impression,  I would use the word WildMan to describe his overall outward appearance but inside he had a good heart especially when it came to kids.

Lawrence W A Jackson on

the left. Passed at the Age of 52

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I read the article at http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=3157 and I  thought of a new Mac & PC commercial:

Mac: Hi, I'm a Mac
PC: And I'm a PC
PC: Mac you don't look well,  your skin looks pale
    and your behaving erratically.
Mac: *Slurred Speech* I'm sick?
PC: But I didn't think MAC's could get Virus'es
Mac: Apple apparently is deceived everyone with good marketing.
PC: I have experience with Virus's,  perhaps this Panda will
    make you feel better. (Pulls out a soft toy panda!)

* Mac takes the Panda who's eyes begin to glow and a light
     beam scans Mac up and down. *

Panda: 6012 detected malware files, system
       unrecoverable, install a better OS!

This is a tongue in cheek joke but Mac users need to wise up

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SAO PAULO – Inmates have devised an innovative way to smuggle cell phones into a prison farm in Brazil: carrier pigeons.

Guards at the Danilio Pinheiro prison near the southeastern city of Sorocaba last week noticed a pigeon resting on an electric wire with a small cloth bag tied to one of its legs.

“The guards nabbed the bird after luring it down with some food and discovered components of a small cell phone inside the bag,” police investigator Celso Soramiglio said Tuesday.

One day later, another pigeon was spotted dragging a similar bag inside the prison’s exercise yard. Inside the bag was the cell phone’s charger, Soramiglio said.

The birds were apparently bred and raised inside the prison, smuggled out, outfitted with the cell phone parts and then released to fly back.

“Pigeons instinctively fly back home, always,” the investigator said.

Soramiglio said that police have not discovered who raised the pigeons or the name of the inmate who was going to receive the cell phone, but that he hoped the telephone carrier would provide the information.

“Some of them are members of organized crime groups that use cell phones to talk to family and friends and to give and receive orders for criminal actions outside and inside prisons,” Soramiglio said.

In 2006, Sao Paulo’s notorious First Capital Command used cell phones to coordinate a wave of assaults on police, banks and buses that left more than 200 people dead in South America’s largest city.

The gang’s leaders are based in prisons, and use smuggled cell phones to plan and execute drug deals, kidnappings and bank robberies.

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Man in a Cage - Halloween costume, this ones for Michelle!

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