Archive for February, 2006

It’s always rewarding to meet entrepreneurial people who started something tiny and grew it to an enormous enterprise. So it was great to meet Mike Panaggio for lunch a few weeks ago … Mike is the founder and CEO of DME, a direct marketing firm in Daytona Beach, Florida. In 1982, he started it...
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OK, just first impressions. Kinda ugly, isn’t it?
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As you know, we are all criminals in Canada. We steal music, ripping it from the skinny hands of starving artistes, leaving them and their 5 children and 3 spouses to the (rather tender, actually) mercies of the Canadian welfare system. That is why the Copyright Board of Canada is re-introducing a levy on...
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Recently finished the second and third horsemen of the apocalypse, I mean the second and third novels in the quasi trilogy that follow Elie Wiesel’s Night. I wonder if Dawn is based on personal experience, or just a short story. It’s the account of a Jewish terrorist who kills an English soldier in cold...
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Last night I finished Friedman’s The World is Flat. It’s a fairly wow big idea book; following are some of my notes and thoughts. This is not a review or anything like that; it’s just things I want to remember from the book. Ten forces that flattened the world: Berlin Wall coming down, opening...
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This is the third installment of what I hope to be a complete “translation” of Romans. Please note that this is not scripture; it is my understanding of scripture. Any with questions or concerns should check the original. What this is, and why I’m doing it An archive of all the chapters of Romans...
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A week ago the story broke that researchers at the University of Toronto were working on technology that would allow internet users in China to access anything they wanted, anywhere on the web, without being traced. (Globe & Mail, Inquirer) The beauty of their technology is that it uses the same networking port that...
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When you’re using Windows to power a 2-story high Times Square video billboard, you’ve got to be prepared for nonsense like this: (That’s a screenshot of Addam Gaffin’s pic.)
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A couple of days after our women won their second straight gold, Canada’s men’s hockey team is out of the Olympics after an embarrassing 6-game run that included losses to Switzerland (well known hockey power, ahem) and Finland. Today they were knocked out in the semis by Russia. I don’t blame the players –...
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Okay, am I the only one who thinks this whole story is just completely bonkers? A CONVICTED murderer in California was due to be put to death with a new kind of injection in the early hours of this morning after a federal judge ruled for the first time that the usual method may...
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I happened to see this Moto cell phone about a week back – probably a link off Digg or something like that. Frankly, the simplicity appeals to me. The feature list is not as long as my arm: • Built-in FM radio • WAP 2.0 Browser • Decent-sized color screen – 128×128 CSTN display • Messaging services • Lantern...
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I watched Allan King’s documentary Memory last night with my daughter. What a heart-wrenching experience. You are your memory. Lose your memory, and you lose your self. Memory reveals the agony of the dissolution of the identity in residents of a Toronto old age home. I can’t watch this sort of thing without thinking...
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Thursday night and Friday last week I was sick. Felt better on Saturday, but yesterday was bad, and today was only slightly better. Hoping to feel a lot better tomorrow, since I have an important meeting in Seattle. Actually sleeping at night would be an improvement.
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Houston police chief Harold Hurrt wants to put surveillance cameras in all kinds of private spaces … including homes. “I know a lot of people are concerned about Big Brother, but my response to that is, if you are not doing anything wrong, why should you worry about it?” Chief Harold Hurtt told reporters...
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Ethan’s latest Duplo creation … And a shot with a slightly better view of Ethan himself … Ethan’s way too old for Duplo now … but since his younger brother Aidan is into it (and always leaves his toys out) Ethan starts messing around with it from time to time.
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