World Water Day & BRTC

Wars have been faught over gold and coal, they are currently being faught over oil, soon it will be over water. In North America and Europe we are sheltered from the fact that clean water is becoming an ever scarce resource. When that fact is realised by the masses the […]

Hydrogen Age Missing Piece Discovered

Hydrogen Storage: UNBF Researchers Achieve Technology Breakthrough — March 7, 2007 - News@UNB
Hydrogen in solid state, the missing link to the dawn of the Hydrogen Age… now if only we could get the energy companies to pour all the profits from the non-renewable tar sands into hydrogen Canada could lead the World in energy […]

Twitter gets us one step closer

From page 27 of Naked Conversations: How Blogs are Changing the Way Businesses Talk with Customers,

Phones, faxes, e-mails, SMS, and IM all extend the conversation, as do online forums, bulletin boards, and chatrooms. But none fo them lets one person converse with many people in multiple locations until blogging… [blogs] give compelling evidence […]

Enviro perspective

Toronto Star Podcasts: Linwood Barclay - Mar. 9
There has been much ado about Al Gore and David Suzuki who have been on missions to spread the word of the impact of climate change have been hypocritical. Go and have a listen to Linwood put things into perspective.

Friday Fun Videos

watch, laugh, enjoy

This is not Software Engineering, why not?

Slashdot | Computer Foul-up Breaks Canadian Tax Filing System
Apparently on Monday they discovered tax fillings submitted electronically where the social insurance number, and the date of birth were swapped
This is why the world needs more well trained software engineers doing more than just safety-critical work. Critical systems include those where an individual can be […]

Business Rules of Thumb

Business Rules of Thumb - A wiki to add business rules of thumb…
Welcome to the Business Rules of Thumb wiki. This public wiki is designed to track useful rules of thumb in business. 
Go read, learn, and contribute.

The shades of grey

Freakonomics Blog » On Good Guys and Bad Guys
That’s when Anya asked her excellent question: “Do ‘bad guys’ call ‘good guys’ ‘bad guys?’”
Why you should avoid those that see the world in two tone from the perspective of a 5 year old… and those sunglasses are too cute.

Social voyeurism

Voyeurism: is a deviant manifestation of sexuality that involves looking without being seen in order to obtain sexual pleasure.
I have been unlike many my age, those that grew up in the age of the Internet. I have had a tube to the webs and the googles since the web was 3 years old. […]