Posts Tagged ‘cross-border’

Peter Watts on Daily Kos, and Just Worlds

Thursday, December 24th, 2009

Nice to see the Watts story get some coverage on one of the larger political blogs.
I quite like this bit:
It’s ironic, though, that the same day I was arrested one Mary Callahan, chief privacy officer for Homeland Security, was up here in Canada reassuring us that the border isn’t so bad a place after all, [...]

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When The Black Wind Blows

Monday, December 14th, 2009

I’ve been very busy the last few days, with a combination of post-moving stuff (hey, look, we’re close to family now, and it’s the holidays), and with some important changes at work (on which I shall write a very journal-y entry shortly). Which explains why I haven’t already written about an utterly unacceptable, and miserably [...]

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Friday Night Links

Friday, October 9th, 2009

Collected from here and there about the networks, for your amusement or edification,

I would really like to believe the story of Denny & Peach is a vignette that accurately captures a bit of the wonder of the world. But even if it’s a fiction, it’s a lovely little one. Also, SWORD CANE!
Same thing with this [...]

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A Monday Night Gallimaufry

Monday, June 22nd, 2009

Let’s see if we can close some of the myriad tabs I’ve opened in the process of trying to catch up with everything that happened in the non-work world while I was off spending time at the Melbourne office:

I’m quite impressed at the 16-year old (from the city where I did my university days) who [...]

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Possibly Meaningless Anecdotal Observations

Sunday, March 22nd, 2009

I once again had the opportunity today to spend some time with the Department of Homeland Security’s border people at the American border. Since I’ve spent a not insignificant amount of time with them–mostly in the same office, at the same border-crossing–over the years, I have some idea of how these things will go, and [...]

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Nerding It Up Tinfoil Hat Style

Wednesday, November 26th, 2008

So, a few months back I was thinking about an upcoming trip to Boston. A trip not unlike the one I’m on right now, albeit shorter and without the 9 day, all-day meeting marathon.
Anyway, I was thinking about this trip with particular reference to the USA’s apparent new policy of having border guards copy data [...]

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ELITE plan for Americans

Monday, November 10th, 2008

Well, I guess that program turned out to be a waste of tax dollars. Hard to get all broken up about it, though, considering.

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September 9, 2008 12:10 am

I thought the whole Bing thing was a joke, until I saw the announcement of McCain’s plan to invade Canada.

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On cross-border shopping and smuggling

Tuesday, November 13th, 2007

So, during a particularly boring meeting today, I ran the numbers on the recent smuggling effort.
I ordered 32 items from Amazon.com and had them shipped to a friend in Boston. Of those, one item is one that for some reason isn’t available from Amazon.ca (and indeed, can’t be ordered from Amazon.com to a Canadian address!), [...]

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Amazon.ca, British Books, What The Hell?

Monday, May 14th, 2007

Ever since Amazon.ca opened, I’ve been in a kind of book-buyer’s bliss. The Canadian variant of Amazon has a broader selection than native Chapters, and typically has lower prices–all good stuff.
Even better, though, Amazon.ca put me in a position to leverage my special status as a Canadian lover of books: we can get both American [...]

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