Richard Woolley, UK Astronomer Royal, 1956

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To view chm files in Ubuntu… one option is to install this gnome-flavoured reader:

sudo aptitude install gnochm

It works!

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Description: CHM file viewer for GNOME
Gnochm is a Compiled HTML Help (CHM) file viewer for GNOME systems.

Features are:
* Support for external ms-its links
* Full text search support
* Bookmarks
* Configurable support for HTTP links
* Integrated with GNOME2
* Support for multiple languages
* Support to open multiple files at once

Homepage: http://gnochm.sourceforge.net/

MP Garth Turner has the lowdown on the lowly performance on our prime minister these past few days:

Over the weekend, our country emerged as the major stumbling block to a group of more than 50 nations deciding to do something serious about climate change. With PMSH leading the charge, we prevented the Commonwealth from showing leadership, by declining leadership. We insisted on a watering-down of integrity, a retreat down from the moral high ground, and have opted once again to follow the tepid and discredited environmental lead of the faltering United States.

How much Canada has wavered, in a mere twenty-two months. Mr. Harper broke the Kelowna Accord with First Nations, the Atlantic Accord with Maritimers, the Income Trust promise with investors, the vow to control spending with his own supporters and the Kyoto Accord with the civilized world. He’s sown more seeds of division with his Quebecois Nation resolution and his electoral bill favouring Alberta over Ontario. He apparently tried to cover up key information in the Schreiber-Mulroney affair and he has made a mockery of promises to make government more accountable and democratic. He’s thrown MPs overboard who disagreed with his control-freak style and muzzled even cabinet ministers while seeking to manipulate the free press.

More here…

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