Archive for December, 2004
After ten years of project management I laughed pretty hard at this. If anybody knows who created it, let me know in the comments section and I’ll attribute it properly.
Wow. Here is an interesting study that was pointed out to me by Ed Sim on his BeyondVC blog. QUOTE: A survey of 336 entrepreneurs found those who regularly run reported better personal satisfaction, independence and autonomy than their non-running or weight-training counterparts. The study also found that companies managed by runners report better sales [...]
Wow, what a year. It began when I entered the January class of Leadership Vancouver along with 28 other class-mates. I had the good fortune of learning from, dancing, goofing off, and getting drunk with, and working alongside a group of fantastic individuals I would never have normally met in my regular day to day [...]
I have been following Honda’s robot development efforts for the past couple of years. First, they taught Asimo (short for Asimov, the father of robotics) how to walk like a human. Now they have taught him how to run at 3km/h. Very cool. Here is a great little video.
A Cornell university study has found that 44% of Amerikans favoured “some restrictions on the civil liberties of Muslim Americans.” But remember George Bush, “this is not a war of Christian against Muslim or Westerners against Easterners, it is a war on terror.” Umm, yeah, right. Shockingly, those who were most inclined to vote this [...]
Read it and weep, my Amerikan friends. And support the EFF. QUOTE December 10, 2004 A Taste of the System 02:07 AM | Current Affairs/ Drugs/ Politics Since the election, as you’ve doubtless noticed, I haven’t had much to say here. Having lost that crusade – and I do think we lost, election skullduggery notwithstanding [...]
I submitted my Technology Buyer’s Manifesto to Seth Godin’s ChangeThis web site. They have now posted my proposal and it needs lots of votes. If it gets a lot of votes, then they will ask me to publish as one of their manifestos! PLEASE help by posting this information to your various email distribution lists, [...]
If you have not read about this horriffic case yet, Lisa M. Montgomery of Melvern Kansas had a baby girl fourteen years ago and then had her tubes tied. Since that time, she frequently claimed that she was pregnant to her ex-husband, current husband, and fellow dog-show attendees. Even more recently, she claimed on a [...]
This article from News.com.au discusses the research findings of a team in Australia that found that eating those seven foods every day resulted in five to six years more life and a 76% decrease in cardiovascular disease. Sounds like a good plan to me!
Many of you know that one of my favourite columnists is Mark Morford, who writes for the San Francisco Gate news. This is this weeks rant on Canada’s policies versus those of his own government. It’s a fantastic read and nice to see that at least one American is aware of what is going on [...]
Here is an interesting article from Wired Magazine about a company called Hydrogen Solar that can convert solar energy to hydrogen at about 8% efficiency. They are currently undergoing trials in Guildford, England.
The author of this article in The Register says it better than I could: QUOTE The plan underlying Fallujah’s ID scheme and phased return may be an effort to stop it reverting to a hostile no-go area for security forces, but it’s doubtful that this could entirely work. It won’t be possible to stop arms [...]
Once this system is in place that requires foreigners entering the U.S. from Canada to have their fingerprints scanned, it will only be a matter of a year or two or another trade dispute and suddenly the system will be extended to Canadian citizens. I would be quite happy to not visit the USA until [...]
I know that people have been exploring blog meters and such and I was interested in my own readership so I graphed the data provided by my Blogware application and here it is. Seems to be a good trend with slow, steady growth.
Below are some real true to life queries that were used at Google or other search engines that found my site. I love the ones that are written in plain English. I guess that really is the future of search so we should be congratulating the Googlers for being able to build systems that can [...]
Here is Part 1 and Part 2 of this discussion. And today, TheStreet.com provides an interesting article on Edgar Bronfman Jr.’s belief that the mobile phone network operators (when did we all start using the phrase mobile phone instead of cell phone?) are better positioned to ultimately win in the small, portable, music-player space. As [...]
Here are the top ten ranked searches at Overture courtesy of this article on Biz.Yahoo. I wonder how long it is before search engine top searches are used to, oh I don’t know, write catchy headlines for blogs. Oh, I guess I have already started that one. Well maybe Mark Burnett can build another reality [...]
It is a known fact that VCs “herd” – they all follow trends and all invest en masse in industries and trends. I have never heard so much alternative energy buzz in my life, not even when I attended the Environmental Studies program at UVic many years ago. Look for increasing energy related deals to [...]
http://www.eetimes.com/at/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleId=53700939&pgno=1. Interesting article. I don’t know enough to dispute or add to the article. I do know that the Insititute for Biological Energy Alternatives (Craig Venter’s new project) is looking at sea-life to find more efficient methods for solar conversion than is currently available through standard photosynthesis and that they are hoping to find solar [...]
I know a guy who knows one of the CGI animators who worked on this new Citroén advertisement. This is one of the best car ads I have ever seen.
America was doing so well until the ideological war-mongering Christian crusader came to power and now that they have managed to stamp out sex education, increase teen pregnancies, and push Creationism back into the classroom, it only seems fitting that one of the largest American TV networks would ban an ad from the United Church, [...]
Apparently this is the month of converting virtual blogs into dead tree versions. The Print My Blog site recently came up with a plan to sell books of people’s blogs. Business 2.0 promptly slagged the plan as being the “dumbest idea of the week.”. And then Darren Barefoot defended the Print My Blog people, but [...]
