Rick Merritt from EETimes has some numbers on how the Silicon Valley technology companies are funding the candidates. Looks like Obama has the edge in most categories but not all. Article here: http://www.eetimes.com/news/latest/210603035
Archive for September 2008
Silicon Valley and Election ’08
September 24, 2008Financial Mess
September 24, 2008You know things are bad when sports columnists are writing about it. I really love Gregg Easterbrook’s analysis of the debt situation. You can read the ESPN page 2 article here: http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=easterbrook/080923
CUTTING TAXES! NO NEW TAXES!
September 18, 2008You know, that in every election almost every party talks about cutting taxes someway or another. If this were really true, we would be down to a zero tax rate 30 years ago! Why can’t candidates ever just say “we’re going to try and make things a bit more efficient, and change the direction of [...]
Democracy needs to be preserved…
September 16, 2008An excellent article from Thomas Axworthy, the chair of the Centre for the Study of Democracy at Queen’s University in the Toronto Star. It really talks about democracy, and how we need to really be open to more view points and accepting of new politcal parties. There’s a really good quote which talks about how [...]
Green Party??
September 16, 2008A follow-on from my last post about the incumbant Baird, I face a quandary about who to pick. I normally would choose the Liberals as they would normally have the first chance to unseat Baird. But there was some back and forth about their selection for the riding, with former Mayor Bob Chiarelli finally deciding [...]
Anybody but Baird
September 16, 2008In my local riding area, I currently have a poor excuse for a Minister of the Environment as MP. John Baird is basically Harper’s bulldog, but what I really dislike about him is when he with held already promised federal money for Ottawa’s light rail system. The proposed system may have had some flaws, but using his [...]
Science Debate ’08
September 15, 2008Ah-hah, this is what I’ve been looking for. A real indication of what the prospective candidates think of the Science and Innovation. A group of organisations got together and formed a list of 14 fundamental questions to ask the candidates. And fortunately, both Obama and McCain have obliged with their (very long) comments. I’ll analyze [...]
Tampa Bay Water
September 14, 2008Was watching the free preview weekend of Discovery Channel Civilizations. Caught the last part of an interesting piece on the Tampa Bay water project. I found out that it contains the largest desalination plant in North America. It also looked impressive as they were capturing as much rain water as possible (as opposed to just [...]
Emerald Ash Borer and a close relation to my last post
September 14, 2008And one more thing I wanted to add regarding my last post (before my non-computer holidays). As part of OFGAC I have had the fortune to find out more about the emerald ash borer (EAB) and what has been happening with the current invasion. It started in Detroit, and has spread all over Michigan, Ohio, [...]
Germophobia and the allergic state of the nation.
September 5, 2008Loring Wirbel provides good commentary on the current state of the war on germs and disease. If people would just have a read of Guns, Germs, and Steel, and see that being exposed to certain germs and building our immune system–especially when we are young–is very important to us living here on Earth. We can [...]
