Deja Vu, all over again
2 years ago, Saturday night, midnight. Me working on my senior thesis project to complete my undergrad Software Engineering programme, with Edmonton and Calgary playing a great game trying to make the playoffs on CBC HNIC in the background….
Fastforward to right now. Calgary has clinched, Edmonton is desparate to make the playoffs, but […]
Take The AQ Test
Wired 9.12: Take The AQ Test
Psychologist Simon Baron-Cohen and his colleagues at Cambridge’s Autism Research Centre have created the Autism-Spectrum Quotient, or AQ, as a measure of the extent of autistic traits in adults. In the first major trial using the test, the average score in the control group was 16.4. Eighty percent of those […]
On tech and business
I was talking to the wife this evening about the irrational behaviour of the retail investors that don’t know how to value a company and pay $38 a share for Tim Hortons, and some of the other business related commentary I have (some posted here). She asked me “Why aren’t you in finance?” […]
Look in your own backyard before complaining about your neighbour’s
CBC News - Senator fires back at U.S. family upset with seal hunt
This family from Minnesota is telling everyone they know to boycot visiting Canada because of the killing of animals.
The McLellan family had written to Canadian senators to say they cancelled a vacation in Canada because of the hunt, which they called “horrible” and […]
Podcast sustainability 2
This is a follow up to this commentary that raised questions but did not provide any value-added ideas about alternatives.
I refuse to waste my time listening to the various “advertisements” that are cut-and-pasted into podcasts. Yes… they are cut and pasted because they break the flow, and have no place in the content […]
Water is the next oil
CBC News: Zenon Environmental shares jump on GE’s $760M takeover bid
GE has not been a leader in so many industries because they follow the pack. So FYI if you did not know it yet… forget Peak Oil, we’ve problably already passed Peak (clean drinking) Water.
This is just sad
CBC News: Lawyer wants DNA test on ‘Roll up the Rim’ cup
Seriously, why has society gotten so sad? One person’s trash is another person’s treasure… If it was your trash, tough luck if someone else turns it into treasure… or a gas-guzzling SUV.
Malcolm Gladwell blog
Go check out gladwell.typepad.com/. Malcolm Gladwell started blogging last week, go add this feed to your syndication aggregator.
Just Watch Us - The End of Privacy
CBC Radio | The Sunday Edition | Just Watch Us - The End of Privacy
I happened to catch most of this on Sunday, although I knew many of the details exposed in this public forurm there were many more I did not know… and found shocking. Such as, forget about the W letting the […]
Houston eyes cameras at apartment complexes
Dan Gillmor | How Police States Emerge | Bayosphere
Houston eyes cameras at apartment complexes
In the last 5 years, it seems that US civil liberties have been going the way of George Orwell’s 1984.
Trudeau said it best in regards to another issue but extends to a general statement, “there is no place for the state in […]