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Yep it’s that time again people! I have had a few new requests and decided to make some other new pictures, so here they are, enjoy! If you have a request, leave a comment or email me.

The newest pictures are: Emailing, Blogging This, Star Trek, Inking, Debugging, Finding Nemo, and the new official picture of Blogosphere.ca! You can, of course, see the entire gallery of my display pictures here:

UPDATE: To see my display pictures, click here.

So here’s how the mini series is going to work. Each time I will pick a topic and discuss the various party stands and comments regarding the topic. Based on how well they do, I will award them from 0 to 3 points, where 3 is the best. And occasionally, like tonight, I will pick a more fun topic. Note that I will stick to the five parties that hold the majority of support in public opinion polls – Liberals, Conservatives, NDP, Bloc Québécois, and Green Party. Tonight, we review party websites!

Liberal Party – http://www.liberal.ca
The Liberal website is quite clean looking and not too flashy. It has quite a few useful tools for voters like candidate profiles, election ads, and stories in the news. The best part of this site in my opinion is that it uses the latest technology! The main page features a Flash 7 animation, and the entire site is written in ASP.NET.
Awarded: 3 Points

Conservative Party – http://www.conservative.ca/
Similar to the Liberal site, the Conservative website uses Flash 7. Unfortunately, they only use ASP and not ASP.NET! At least its still Microsoft I suppose. The website is very sharp looking, with well designed pictures. The Conservative site also includes a number of useful tools, very similar to the Liberal site.
Awarded: 2 Points

NDP – http://www.ndp.ca/
Does anyone remember the old HotBot search engine? It worked pretty good for it’s day, but it was UGLY. And the NDP Party’s site is no different. This site looks like it is a tribute to HotBot with ugly orange, yellow and neon green colors. I think Jack Layton should fire his marketing people and get a real color scheme. And having to download a PDF to read the platform is stupid. Give me at least a list in HTML.
Awarded: 0 Points

Bloc Québécois – http://www.bloc.org/
So I fire up the Bloc’s site. French, okay no problem. Search page for English. Nothing. Search page for Anglais. Nothing. Oh yeah! I remember now! They are separatists. I hope they win so we can get rid of them. Oh and the guy in their banner looks like a contact lense commercial.
Awarded: 0 Points

Green Party – http://www.greenparty.ca/
My favorite color is green, so this site gets points right off the bat. Unfortunately, the site is written in php, but it more than makes up for that in design! The website is beautiful and extremely well laid out. They also have stuff like the latest news and event listings. Good job on this site!
Awarded: 3 Points

So there you have it! The first campaign issue has been explored (somewhat) and the first points have been awarded. Until the next episode, here are the current standings:

1. Liberal Party – 3 points
2. Green Party – 3 points
3. Conservatives – 2 points
4. NDP – 0 points
5. Bloc Québécois – 0 points

So here’s how the mini series is going to work. Each time I will pick a topic and discuss the various party stands and comments regarding the topic. Based on how well they do, I will award them from 0 to 3 points, where 3 is the best. And occasionally, like tonight, I will pick a more fun topic. Note that I will stick to the five parties that hold the majority of support in public opinion polls – Liberals, Conservatives, NDP, Bloc Québécois, and Green Party. Tonight, we review party websites!

Read Episode #1

Okay not sure how many of you use Windows Media Player, but the beta version for 10.0 was released today and I gave it a quick test drive. Overall, not bad!

Read my review at MasterMaq.NET.

Up until this point in time, I haven’t posted anything relating to politics on my blog. I didn’t consciously decide to avoid politics, it just worked out that way. However, with a federal election coming up in Canada on June 28th, and later in the year for the United States, there are some things on my mind that I am going to post about. Instead of one long uber-post, I have decided to make multiple posts and include them in my first ever “blog mini series”.

I am clearly not the first one to post about the elections; there are many blogs out there dedicated to covering the different political parties. As this is the introduction post to my mini series, I won’t bring up a topic, but I will share a couple links with you.

• Martin @ EclecticBlogs talks about the importance of casting your vote. Make sure you are there on election day!
• Another one from Martin – which party is the REAL Canadian party? Find out in his investigation.
• CalgaryGrit shares with us the latest support percentages. I think we can all agree another majority Liberal government is completely out the window.
• Paul Martin says that if Harper is elected, Canada will look a lot like the United States.
• Be sure to check out BlogsCanada’s list of Informative Links for Canada’s 2004 Election.

I hope you will read and share your comments on my thoughts in this mini series. Since there are no religious movies out right now for us to debate, I figure politics is the next best thing – everyone has an opinion 🙂

The latest Blogosphere Radio episode is now live, go check it out!