Chromebooks

I got to setup a Chromebook yesterday. What a breeze. I can sure see why it is the #1 seller on Amazon. One of the Chromebook's key feature is its ability to change users. 
I also got to fix a Windows laptop yesterday. I got rid of most of the pop ups, but the missing dll file forced me to reinstall some software. Even IE crashed on me twice. I did install Chrome just incase IE keeps on crashing. 
I can sure see why Chrome has replace IE as the #1 browser. Even though Microsoft has begun an aggressive anti-Chromebook marketing campaign in an attempt to undermine the Chrombebook's potential as a computing device, I don't see the Chromebook losing ground. I do promote this software because is Open just like Ubuntu. Enjoy.

500 people like me.

G+ followers graph

Wow! I am loved! There are 500 people who are somewhat interested in what I have to say. Everyday I get from 0 to 6 new followers (see chart). I know a lot of my post are technical so if some people could figure out how to uncircle me I wouldn't have such a following. :) I am starting to do more helpouts so hopefully we can help people learn how to manage they circles.
 Now that Google plus has over 2.5 billion accounts (every 3rd person) it is quite easy to find the people you want to hear from. Now getting those people to post some pictures or text on the internet is a little harder. It seems like Facebook has that trickery figured out better than G+. I added the images of some of the people who like me on the right of this blog. Enjoy! I know I am not that important. I only have 0.00002% of G+ers following me.

Municipal Elections - Where should Health and Education spending come from?

Municipal Elections are tomorrow, time to think about taxes.
I noticed on my last Gas bill that I was getting charged $8 per GJ Carbon Tax. I added my other sources of carbon use and came up with 28 tons of carbon per year. Should I be paying $224 per year in a Carbon Tax? Should I be charged $224 for releasing the heat trapping "greenhouse" gas? Does society benefit from this Pigouvian tax (sin tax)?
Alberta's carbon tax rate is set at $15 per ton, but they are only taxing the big oil companies. B.C. rate is $10 per ton (2.41 cents per gas litre) which gives B.C. over 1 billion in revenue per year. They are adding this carbon tax to the everyone's bill.  NASA climate guy James Hanson thinks this is a good thing. As water starts to freeze and cattle start to need hay a 3 to 5 degree increase might be a good thing, at least up north.
I think I agree with the tax even if it hurts me. What do you think?