MoneySense magazine has recently published their annual best places to live in Canada issue. Ottawa ended up being number 1 this year from judging on house prices, environment, and other categories. I found the Ottawa Citizen article on the survey entertaining. I particularly like the quote: “It was to some degree a triumph of mediocrity, [...]
Archive for April 2008
Ottawa–Above Average!
April 30, 2008Plastic Bottles continued.
April 23, 2008I have done further research on plastic bottles and the recycling symbols. Here is a brief synopsis: Recycling number Comments ————————— 1 Used in pop/water/juice bottles. Good for one use but not recommended beyond that. 2 Unsure 3 Unsure 4 Unsure 5 Safe for use and reuse (as far as we know) 6 Not Safe [...]
Big Company
April 23, 2008David Manners has an interesting blog entry about big companies. I have seen some of this occur, and to make matters worse the company I worked for was mid-size at best. When the company is small, and yet loses the advantages of being small, it is doomed to failure. Big Company Disease
Interesting Electronics Blog
April 18, 2008While doing research for my day job, I found this interesting blog. I find David Manners writing style refreshing, and he puts a social political spin on the electronics world. I’m adding him to my blog roll. Here it is.
Baby Bottle Plastics
April 18, 2008Canada is thinking of banning any plastic bottle that contains BPA. BPA is an acronym for Bisphenal-A, a compound found incertain plastics, specifically the hard “Nalgene” type bottles. I have done some research on the web and found out a quick way to tell if the bottle contains BPA is look at the recycling number on [...]
Election Spending Rules
April 16, 2008I have watched the news and have heard a bit about the Tory advertising scandal. I will probably research this more, but in the mean-time I do have some strong feelings on the election process. In a true democratic society, the election rules have to be followed precisely. In Canada that means that there is [...]
Article about Engineering and Politics
April 15, 2008I consider myself an engineer with quite a large interest in politics. I have thought about running for office in the past, but time commitments, and my negative impression of the party-style politics has kept me out of it. But maybe it is time I start to take a very serious look at giving it [...]
Hello!
April 15, 2008Hello! I’ve decided to start a new blog that will be more centred on politics–from an electronics engineer’s point of view. I found that I wanted to talk about this quite a bit, and this topic needed it’s own blog, separate from my other blog. My experiences as a new father although interesting to a [...]
