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Dispatches from 2005
Posted in August
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Getting dry DSL hassle-free
The seconnd in a series of rants about VoIP and dry DSL explains how easy it can be to get both — if you look at it the right way. -
August 26, 2005
Hid the subscribe box and showed the search box in the menu Changed the spotlit items on the homepage. -
Blogging the CBC lockout
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Why doesn’t Internet Explorer add a table using appendChild?
Adding a table using the DOM is relatively easy — all you need to do is dynamically create the needed TD (and/or TH), TR, TBODY (and/or TFOOT and/or THEAD), and TABLE nodes using createElement. The you add each child to its parent using appendChild. -
CBC locks out employees
This morning, I woke up and flipped on CBC Radio One as I normally do. Today, though, I did it primarily to see if the inevitable didn’t happen. But it did. The voice on the radio told me the CBC management had locked-out its 5,500 or so members of the Canadian Media Guild. The Mother Corp. wants more flexibility in its hiring practices by hiring more contract workers. Already, almost a third of the employees now are currently working on a contract basis. -
Going dry with DSL
The first in a what I hope will be a series detailing my experience trying to set-up VoIP on with a Sympatico DSL service tied to my phone number. -
They come in threes
What happens when the inevitable happens not once, but three times in four days?