Thoughts on the world and the things in it.
A co-worker shared an old copy of dandy-horse, a Toronto cycling magazine. It was the spring 2009 issue and featured a debate between Geoff MacBride and Derek Chadbourne discussing the merits of helmets/no-helmet. I am very much a pro-helmet advocate. But only for me, I couldn’t give a crap if …
Recently Sony shut down it’s Playstation Network due to an intrusion into it’s customers’ personal information. Names, addresses even credit cards were taken. With 75 million+ PSN users affected, it is one of the largest breaches of confidential user information in history. As Chris Berry said to me, this is …
On March 11th the 9.0 earthquake off the coast of Sendai sent a tsunami which destroyed much of the coast and killed thousands of people. In Tokyo, the largest city in Japan and home to over 12 million people, the earthquake had a slightly different effect. It forced people to …
I captured this photo before I left for Japan. I think you would be hard-pressed to convince anyone with a lick of sense that Earth Hour is something other than a big advertising exercise. Hypocritical to say the least.
inducWhy do we have an Earth hour? The earth is going to be here for billions of years, long after we are all gone. I guarantee it. If we pollute the world, to the point of no return and all human life ceases to exist, the planet will continue until …
Dame Judi Dench and Daniel Craig are part of this incredible public service announcement about gender equality and www.weareequals.org I all I can say is Kudos to both of them. Very poignant and very well done.
New Hampshire has gay marriage. Now some republicans are trying to repeal it. He thinks they shouldn’t. How the Hell can anyone actually try to take away someone else’s right. Especially if they are claiming to be true Republicans and be for less intrusive government.
I had lunch yesterday with Chris Berry, and inevitably conversation drifted to the CRTC and usage based billing. Usage based billing sounds like a good idea on it’s face. Those who use it more should pay more, right? We do it with electricity and natural gas, so it’s not like …
I am reading this book entitled One to Nine, the Inner Life of Numbers and I am currently on chapter 3, which is actually about the number 2. It uses genealogy to explain the importance of the number 2 and it’s implied meaning and I had a strange thought. In Dan Brown’s …
The TTC is racist. Or at the very least elitist. It’s a strong statement I know, but if you spend any amount of time riding the TTC you can see it. For example I have a completely unscientific but convincing study going of subway maps on the trains. I travel …