Monthly Archives: January 2006

Voting for a winner

For the first time in my life, I’ve voted for the winning candidate in an election, namely Paul Dewar of the NDP! In fact, he ended up winning by a fairly large margin, which surprised me. Another surprising thing is … Continue reading

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The predictions are in!

Well, the Election Stock Market closed last night, and final prices would put the parties as follows: Liberal: 93 Conservative: 127 NDP: 33 Bloc Quebecois: 54 Others: 1 The Election Prediction Project, which does a riding-by-riding analysis based on user-submitted … Continue reading

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Election Stock Market

Here’s a cool idea: a stock market where you can trade in shares of the political parties. The final values of the shares will be determined by the election results, so if you can accurately predict the results, you can … Continue reading

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World record prime number

Since 1998, I’ve been a participant in the Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search, a project which aims to find huge prime numbers. Just a couple weeks ago, the project broke the world record for the ninth straight time. The record-setting … Continue reading

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A new year, a new site

Well, it’s the start of a new year, and I thought I’d start things off by finally getting off my butt and putting together a new web site. I’ve had an Esperanto site for a few years now, but a … Continue reading

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