SunRise, SunSet; Before

BEFORE SUNRISE and BEFORE SUNSET,staring Julie Delpy and Ethan Hawke, are playing at Festival Cinemas in Toronto

BEFORE SUNRISE ( Director : RICHARD LINKLATER Year :1995)
The Paradise - Sept. 29,
The Royal - Oct. 04

BEFORE SUNSET (Director : RICHARD LINKLATER Year :2004)
The Fox - Oct. 01, Oct. 03, Oct. 03, Oct. 04, Oct. 06,
The Kingsway - Oct. 06, Oct. 24, Oct. 25, Oct. 26, Oct. 26,
The Paradise - Sept. 26, Sept. 26, Sept. 27, Sept. 29, Oct. 15,
The Revue - Oct. 08, Oct. 10,
The Royal - Oct. 01, Oct. 03, Oct. 04,

The End of Sushi or Sayonara Sashimi

The G&M reports on Freezing out sushi, seems someone at Queens Park doesn't like Sushi and sliped into a Food Safty Bill a requirement that any fish to be served raw must have been frozen! Which chances the taste, texture of the fish in question. This came into effect Sept 1 ('04) in Ontario.

Chefs and sushi lovers say the Japanese specialty will cease to be a delicacy after a new health regulation demands that raw fish be frozen before serving...the government ban on fresh fish, which went into effect on September 1 and which extends to sashimi, fish tartare, ceviche and cold-smoked fish.. "There's no way you can freeze sea urchin," he says. "When you defrost it, it just melts away."..may be an overreaction to a problem that hasn't been proved to exist here....Although public-health officials say they consulted the association in the development of new amendments to the Health Protection and Promotion Act, Mr. Mundell says the ban on fresh fish for raw consumption was not included in the final draft presented to his group. "It came as a surprise to us," he says.

Here's the Act, see Section 33 part 9

(9) Fish that is intended to be consumed raw, including raw-marinated and partially cooked fish, shall be frozen before preparation and serving to a temperature of minus 20 degrees Celsius or below for seven days or to a temperature of minus 35 degrees or below for 15 hours. O. Reg. 74/04, s. 1.

Time to take to the Streets with our Tuna Belly!! Pehaps we can get a letter writing campaign to our MPP's?

Update: Globe and Mail columnist (that's what they call a paid blogger!) MARGARET WENTE has written aboutthe sushi ban in "Toro, toro, toro! Stop the sushi ban!" (Tuesday, September 28, 2004, Page A21) beyond the Insider Edition subscribers only link:

Are you a sushi fan like me? Do you like chowing down on tender tuna morsels with a little wasabi on the side? Raw fish may not be for everyone, but don't knock it if you haven't tried it. It's delicious, nutritious, low-cal, full of omega fatty acids and probably good for your sex life, too.

Another update: The Battle for Toro


Update 2:There is Now to the Petition to the Hon George Smitherman (" sushi aficionado as well as Ontario's Health Minister").

Update 3 :Sushi Wars

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SOX Compliance plain and simple for Canadain Firms

ITBusiness.ca wirtes about how SOX effects Canadian Firms list on U.S exchanges....

While U.S. companies must comply with Sarbanes-Oxley requirements this year, non-U.S. companies with stocks listed there have until 2005 and the newer Canadian Securities Commission regulations will not require publicly-traded companies to document their internal controls until either 2005 or 2006, said Doug Wilkinson, enterprise risk services partner at Deloitte Consulting in Toronto. Details of the Canadian rules will likely be clarified this fall, he said.....

Asterisk Open Source PBX 1.0 Release

Via SlashDot the release of version 1.0.0 of Asterisk was announced at Astricon (the first Asterisk conference).

(what's a PBX? Private Branch Exchange. A telephone exchange used within an organization and located on the premises; an example would be the main switchboard in a hospital. see here for more)

Also mentioned is the VoIP Wiki.

Use the Search bar (right) for more on PBX, Asterisk, or VoIP

SOX's : Unready for Sarbanes-Oxley?

December '04 marks the next big deadline to comply with strictures of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, which often require wholesale changes to a company's financial reporting procedures.

BaseLine Mag has 2 checklist tools to help:
From 'Can't' to Compliant and
Paying for Sarbanes-Oxley, and makes a interesting point:

Companies that use compliance projects to streamline their processes a la the business process re-engineering efforts of the 1980s could well come out ahead by making their financial procedures more efficient...Shaking out the inefficiencies will save time and money...

Search for "Sarbanes" ( Search bar at right) to find more here.

TV over Internet protocol (TVIP)

Via Reuters.com PluggedIn: Next-generation TV streams over phone lines


Here's the 3rd part of the grand slam of the new world of Broadband Telecom : Internet, Voice (VoIP), and TV (TvIP).

I have yet to see if they can get the lossless compression they need (its all in the algorithms), for regular signals let alone HD, but there is alot of money at stake. the article says "-- TVIP requires an Internet connection of at least 2 megabits per second --"

CoMers: The Web Series

Via Bureau 42 is CoMers: The Web Series, a flash based Original Science Fiction Series, 2 episodes posted and 1 nearly done, set in 2351, ~160 after the end of the First Solar War. Not bad.

How to restart your Lotus/Domino server on a schedule

From Phigment Said What? via New4Notes, for your friendly niegborhood Admin (that's you A L!)

The straight goods on DRM, now print-centric and polished

As a followup to The straight goods on DRM, and Via boingboing.net :

ChangeThis has re/published Cory's DRM Manifesto as a print-centric and polished PDF, under it's Create Commons License.

(and a another nice testament to the power of that license, the speech is now in (at least) 6 formats (html/pdf/mp3) and 9 languages)

The Voice over IP Insurrection

Om Malik on Broadband: The Voice over IP Insurrection

"in the battle between Bellheads and Netheads, we're all Netheads now"

plus : from the Association for Computing Machinery: You Don't Know Jack About VoIP and The ABCs of VoIP from Business Week, and the VoIP Wiki.

David Brent's "Office" Rules

Via HC and the BBC TV show THE OFFICE:

1. Eagles may soar high, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines.
2. Lack of planning on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part.
3. There may be no 'I' in team, but there's a 'ME' if you look hard enough.
4. Process and Procedure are the last hiding place of people without the wit and wisdom to do their job properly.
5. Remember that age and treachery will always triumph over youth and ability.
6. Never do today that which will become someone else's responsibility tomorrow.
7. Every time you open your mouth you have this wonderful ability to continually confirm what I think.
8. Show me a good loser and I'll show you a LOSER!
9. Put the key of despair into the lock of apathy. Turn the knob of mediocrity slowly and open the gates of despondency - welcome to a day in the average office.
10. It's the team that matters. Where would The Beatles be without Ringo? If John got Yoko to play drums the history of music would be completely different.
11. What does a squirrel do in the summer? It buries nuts. Why? Cos then in winter time he's got something to eat and he won't die. So, collecting nuts in the summer is worthwhile work. Every task you do at work think, would a squirrel do that? Think squirrels. Think nuts.
12. When confronted by a difficult problem, you can solve it more easily by reducing it to the question, "How would the Lone Ranger handle this?"
13. Accept that some days you are the pigeon, and some days you are the statue.
14. If your boss is getting you down, look at him through the prongs of a fork and imagine him in jail.
15. If you can keep your head when all around you have lost theirs, then you probably haven't understood the seriousness of the situation.
16. You don't have to be mad to work here! In fact we ask you to complete a medical questionnaire to ensure that you are not.
17. If you treat the people around you with love and respect, they will never guess that you're trying to get them sacked.
18. If at first you don't succeed, remove all evidence you ever tried.
19. You have to be 100% behind someone, before you can stab them in the back.
20. If work was so good, the rich would have kept more of it for themselves.
21. Those of you who think you know everything are annoying to those of us who do.
22. There's no 'I' in 'team'. But then there's no 'I' in 'useless smug colleague', either. And there's four in 'platitude-quoting idiot'. Go figure.
23. Know your limitations and be content with them. Too much ambition results in promotion to a job you can't do.
24. Make good use of your cylindrical filing unit, the one you mainly keep under your desk.
25. Quitters never win, winners never quit. But those who never win and never quit are idiots.
26. If you're gonna be late, then be late and not just 2 minutes - make it an hour and enjoy your breakfast.
27. Remember the 3 golden rules: 1. It was like that when I got here. 2. I didn't do it. 3. (To your Boss) I like your style.
28. The office is like an army, and I'm the field general. You're my footsoldiers and customer quality is the WAR!!!
29. Set out to leave the first vapour trail in the blue-sky scenario.
30. Statistics are like a lamp-post to a drunken man - more for leaning on than illumination.
31. A problem shared is a problem halved, so is your problem really yours or just half of someone else's?
32. Is your work done? Are all pigs fed, watered and ready to fly?....
33. You don't have to be mad to work here, but you do have to be on time, well presented, a team player, customer service focused and sober!!
34. I thought I could see the light at the end of the tunnel, but it was just some b*stard with a torch, bringing me more work.
35. Avoid employing unlucky people - throw half of the pile of CVs in the bin without reading them.