Month: January 2008
Letting the fox in the henhouse
The Toronto Police Services Board is having a special meeting where Tom Smith, a rep for Taser international will be presenting his arguement on why Toronto should equip it’s officers with tasers. I wonder if they will invite Robert Dziekanski’s mother Zofia Cisowski to the meeting to talk about how …
No “fag” blood please, and the organs…well maybe.
Pissed off about the organ donation thing I wrote Health Canada to find out what was going on. Hell, I have been an organ donor since I would get a driver’s lisence so for them to say I am suddenly ineligible seemed ridiculous. Here is the response sent to me …
What human rights?
China doesn’t exactly have the best human-rights record. In fact, it is down right awful. Amid the child labour and human trafficing, the capital punishment and organ retrieval you can add Rodney King style beatings to the list. Wei Wenhua was the general manager of construction company, Shuli Architectural Engineering; …
Information-seeking behavior – A better mousetrap?
As search engines get better, and more relevant we have to look at our own efforts and see if there are ways to improve our own search behavior as well. In fact, if you search for “information-seeking behavior” you get 204,000 results from Google; which is far too much information …
The crack-cocaine of video games – CIV IV
I love video games. I can play a game for hours. There is one however that scares me, Sid Meier’s “Civilization IV”. It’s the crack cocaine of video games. Hell, they even acknowledge it’s addictive properties. When you try to log off it reads “Do you really want to quit?” …