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Archive for July, 2007
Tour de France, EXTREME EDITION!
28 Jul 2007A colleague of mine suggested that the Tour de France give up all pretense of being drug free, and embrace the performance-enhancing image it has developed so carefully over the last quarter century.
His idea was to have the racing teams sponsored by the major pharmaceutical firms, pitting one performance-enhancing approach against another, in a competition [...]
GREEN CARD: Run in circles, scream and shout
In: Canada| Immigration| Life
18 Jul 2007Well, now that I’m certified, the slope gets slippery very quickly.
We have until early August to get all of our docs to the lawyers before the August 17 deadline.
Many calls, pictures, doctors appointments, and huge expense.
Going to be a fun month.
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Green Card: I’m Certified
In: Canada| Immigration| Life
17 Jul 2007Well folks, I got the good news last night: I am Department of Labor Certified.
This means that I can now actually apply for a Green Card.
Oh yeah, and based on some of the other happenings in the world of US Immigration (here and here), I am part of the group that is either going to [...]
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USCIS, Green Cards, and Greed: Your (United States Federal) Government at Work
In: Canada| Immigration| Life| RANTING
14 Jul 2007It seems that more than the usual immigration backlog reduction process has been at work in the USCIS. There are two likely scenarios that appear to be running around immigration circles these days, regarding the Green Card slot tease that has turned into such a furore.
The first is that the Department of State, which issues [...]
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GREEN CARD: USCIS is apparently in deep trouble
In: Canada| Immigration| Life| RANTING
13 Jul 2007I have been reading Greg Siskind’s blog, and he has many articles on the growing hue and cry over the USCIS Visa debacle. [here and here, as examples]
Based on everything I have read, I might benefit from this scam. However, it makes me ill to think that a group of bureaucrats broke their own rules [...]
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GREEN CARD: “It’s no fun, being a legal alien”
In: Canada| Immigration| Life| RANTING
13 Jul 2007As many readers know, I am going through the process — if you call filing a bunch of paperwork and not hearing anything for 2 years a process — of obtaining Permanent Residency in the United States, often referred to as the Green Card.
This morning, on NPR, there was a story about a foul-up in [...]
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And poof! In a puff of smoke, it was gone.
In: Life| Technology
12 Jul 2007When I got home today, Samantha pointed to her computer and said it wouldn’t go. And it won’t
Dead. Deceased. Demised.
Likely a dead motherboard, and on a Dell, it’s not worth repairing. Now good for spare parts.
New refurb from Dell on the way.
Ugh.
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GrabPERF: Yahoo issues today
In: GrabPERF| Web Performance
6 Jul 2007Netcraft noted that Yahoo encountered a bit of a headache today. So I fired up my handy-dandy little performance system and had a look.
Although for an organization and infrastructure the size of Yahoo’s this may have been a big event, in my experience, this was a "stuff happens on the Internet" sort of thing.
Move along [...]
Happy Canada Day, 2007
1 Jul 2007It’s July 1, meaning that it’s time for Canadians around the world have launched into their recently re-invigorated day of jingoistic pride. Living next door to the definition of jingoistic pride has set the bar pretty high, but based on the last couple of trips north, great strides have been made since we left our [...]
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