Another open letter to Jim Prentice

My colleague Geoff Sowrey wrote what I think is a brilliant open letter to Jim Prentice. In fact he inspired me to write one of my own as well. If you don’t know who Jim Prentice is you can start here. If you don’t know what is going on then …

Greed and shame

So the CBC lost the use of the theme for “Hockey Night in Canada” and while no one else will say it I will, shame on Dolores Claman. That’s right, shame.  CBC paid for that song many times over.  She received royalties every time it played and after negotiations broke …

Cats for Corporate Sponsorship

I was watching live blog updates of Steve Job’s presentation at WWDC and a thought occured to me.  If Apple keeps naming their software after endangered cats, perhaps they could spend a little money, say one percent of total sales to protect that animal.  The next OS is called snow …

Democracy for China?

“May you live in interesting times.” – Old Chinese Curse A couple of weeks ago some friends were over and we began discussing China.  While most of them were not Chinese, a few were and a couple more, myself included, had been to China for extended periods of time.  This …