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  1. Andem

    Have you ever had such an incompetent ISP that...

    Assigns you an ip address ending in 255 (reserved for broadcast)... .... causing you to be blocked out of networks by firewalls across the world ... ? *sigh*
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    Friends system is on the fritz

    I noticed that the friend system is acting weird now that we've upgraded and I've identified the issue. Members are not being notified at the moment of new friend requests. This will be fixed in the next update and you will finally be able to approve, decline or defer!
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    Political Affiliation & Your Profile

    Hello! I'd like to announce that I've added 4 new options to the political affiliation section of your profile. The first two are for those who do not consider themselves very political or who think in terms not represented by the mainstream parties and the next two are for our American...
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    8 Classic Movies That Got Away With Gaping Plot Holes

    #8. Back to the Future The Plot: Marty McFly goes back in time, helps his parents get together, invents rock and roll... The Hole: ...and everyone promptly forgets he was ever there the minute he leaves. Nobody notices that a famous clothing brand is later named after him, nobody...
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    Possibly the oldest ant species discovered in the Amazon

    New ant species discovered in the Amazon likely represents oldest living lineage of ants This new species of blind, subterranean, predatory ant, Martialis heureka, was discovered in the Amazon by Christian Rabeling at the University of Texas at Austin. It belongs to the first new subfamily of...
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    Alanis Morissette Acoustic

    Alanis Morissette's Jagged Little Pill [acoustic] I've always been a fan of Alanis and yet it completely slipped by that she had an acoustic version of her break-in 12x platinum album. I always thought she had a good voice and a quirky style with her Ottawa valley accent coming through in...
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    Student Auctioning Virginity

    LOS ANGELES (Sept. 11) - A 22-year-old woman in the United States is publicly auctioning her virginity to pay for her college education, sparking a heated online debate about sex and morality. The student from San Diego, California, who is using the pseudonym Natalie Dylan for "safety...
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    Canadians voting from abroad

    Voting abroad has never been easier for Canadians who have been gone from the country for less than 5 consecutive years. If you're wanting to have your say in the Canadian election, but live outside of Canadian and have Canadian citizenship, take this chance to have your voice heard! Visit...
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    Downtime

    Unfortunately, we've experienced much downtime over the weekend. Some problems have arisen with our main web server and now that it's back online, we're doing some investigating to find our where the issue lay. Our apologies for this!
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    The recovery of the US dollar

    Oil Prices Slide on Slowing US Demand Oil prices continued their decline Friday as flagging US demand and the stronger dollar made the crude lose 8 percent this week. Light sweet crude for October delivery is down USD 1.39 at USD 106.50. As oil prices have been falling, the dollar has been...
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    Fixed search bug

    I came across it myself today and noticed clicking links from forum keywords searches redirects you automatically to the homepage. It's fixed now incase anybody else noticed.
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    Mercedes & Smart to go electric by 2010

    Over the last few months, several big car makers, including Nissan, Subaru and Mitsubishi, have announced plans to produce all-electric cars before the end of the decade, or soon after. Now Daimler has announced that it to plans to jump on the growing EV bandwagon, with plans to roll-out a...
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    Reorganising the forum structure

    Reinventing the board topics. This is a very important step we should be making to improve the layout and ease of use of CC forums. The staff threads have mentioned it several times in the last months so let's put this also up for talk. Currently: Canadian Café `-> In The News `--> CBC News...
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    Important: Help shape your Canadian Content

    Based on feedback from the past months, I've decided we should all reshape CC into what YOU want it to be. It seems the social networking features have been a real hit, so I want to grow on that. Unfortunately, CC hasn't been that easy to navigate, so I'm posting this as an open discussion where...
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    Caring for houseplants

    I've recently decided to give it another go at trying to have some plants in my flat. My problem for the past couple of years is that they constantly die after a few months so I'm seeking tips on how to keep these guys for atleast a little bit longer if not much longer. I've asked the florist...
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    Youtube Embedding!

    All you have to do is paste the URL of Youtube or Google videos and it automatically turns into a video embedded.
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    Weird time stamps

    The weird time stamps have been caused by the fact that some of you are currently using the backup server and some of you are using the old server (which has a questionable stability at the moment). I've fixed the backup servers time to be correct.
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    Network & Power Outage

    Dear Member, As you have probably realised, Canadian Content has suffered a serious outage of over 30 hours which has been linked to an explosion in the data centre where our Domain Name Services server is hosted. Along with that, we also have a legacy server in the same building on the same...
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    Oops! Server back up

    Oops! Looks like the server the forums resides on crashed today, I've been out so apologies for not getting it back up pronto.. we're back anyways now!
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    Travel to Canada reaches record low

    OTTAWA — Travel to Canada hit a record low for the fifth straight month in March, following big declines in both same-day car trips from the United States and the number of visitors from overseas nations. Statistics Canada reports foreign visitors made 2.3 million trips to Canada in March, the...