Before go any further I want to first say that I do appreciate that there’s a lot that’s gotten better in our tech lives since our move to Canada. That includes overall faster Internet connection speeds, a great feature from our ISP that forwards a copy of any telephone voicemail to my email as an […]
Like many people, I’ll bet you, dear reader, grew up with a few people who ended up being in the public eye, either as a celebrity or just someone who got their ’15 minutes of fame’. As for me, one of my closest friends when I was about 16 was Lance Reddick, who shared my […]
Is it really Halloween again? The month, like Scarbo the ‘half goblin, half ghost’ character from Gaspard de la Nuit, a poem and the third in a set of 3 extraordinary piano pieces by Maurice Ravel, has twitched, jerked and reared up and dropped down, pirouetting like a threatening demon (at least in terms of […]
A warning right off the bat: I’m going to get nerdy here. It had occurred to me earlier in the week and I twittered it, but it hit me again, full-force, during the final Presidential Debate: Obama = Spock. There are the obvious parallels: The offspring of two races (white and black vs. Human and […]
I got a news-flash email from the CBC today (I’m no one special; I’ve signed up for alerts like this): The federal government is $4.2 billion richer with the conclusion of the cellphone spectrum auction on Monday, while customers stand to win as five new companies are now well positioned to launch services over the […]
