Coming soon to stores on April 3rd, the iPad is causing quite a stir. Will it be “all that”? The most interesting part about the iPad, the Kindle, and other tablet PCs and e-readers (and yes I know e-readers and tablet computers are really different things!) is what it might actually do to the print [...]
Archive for March 2010
iPad is coming! How about paper reduction?
March 31, 2010Healthcare reform–it’s hard to get excited
March 26, 2010I’ve been following health care reform in the US, but only on the periphery. It sounds like there are no major changes taking place. Saying this, I just wanted to pass along this post from Loring Wirbel on his blog. Sometimes it’s just to hard to get excited about the minutiae of details that go into these [...]
Ann Coulter in Ottawa
March 25, 2010Again, I’m a little late on the ball, but definitely had to comment on Ann Coulter’s recent visit to Ottawa. I am by no means a fan of Ann Coulter, but think that the University of Ottawa did themselves a disservice by sending the letter to warn her about her speech. I believe this [...]
Media and Advertisers
March 24, 2010Having listened to the No Agenda podcast for a while, it has been interesting hearing them say over and over again that taking donations keeps them out of the hands of the major corporations that normally control the media. I just read an interesting blog entry from Lou Covey’s State of the Media blog. It [...]
El Toro – 1991
March 22, 2010Another interesting point brought up by the No Agenda guys recently–pertaining to the most recent Pentagon shooter. The mention of the 1991 death of Marine Colonel James Sabow, brought up some old news…and an enduring controversy. I really don’t have too much to add to this, but feel some of the coverage of this should [...]
Am I allowed to swear on WordPress?
March 18, 2010Oh well, I guess we’ll see with this post. Anyhoo, listening to the No Agenda guys while walking the dog tonight, I hear many things that were blog worthy. The first item to go up though is on the humourous side of things. One of their memes is media assassination. They happened to play the [...]
Go east young man (or woman)
March 18, 2010I know this is happening in the technology industry, so I am not surprised that recent business school graduates are seeking adventure and fortune in Asia. I can definitely see the attraction that unattached people might have. Speaking as someone who did work overseas for two years, there is no guarantee of success, it could [...]
Positive signs
March 17, 2010I look through some of my posts and realize that I have a slightly negative tone to the blog. Well, today I will pass on some positive news–at least it’s positive for the industry I work in. The good ‘ole supply and demand economics is working, with semiconductor companies not going overboard building fabs so [...]
Canadian Housing Bubble(?)
March 15, 2010One of the biggest economic questions we have in this country right now is whether there is housing bubble or not. House prices are on the rise again, as we seem to be “out” of this most recent recession. Is this a good thing? One thing that I have noted is that the home prices [...]
