links, random thoughts, various opinions
What a crazy week. No time to post. Oh and how I wish i was at Etcon (O’Reilly Emerging Technology Conference) this week [next year I’m going]. Making some breakthroughs at work though, it feels good. We have such a great team…sometimes I forget to look up and realize that. […]
Read Why Politics Matter in the latest issue of Shift magazine. Despite the fact I read so much media I rarely find articles or whole magazines that seem to be writing to me, not so much in a personal way (i.e. is my head big sort of way) but rather in a ‘yeah I’m […]
My nephew has his own website (with his own URL) - Arkinia. I’ve been trying to think of a name for my own site, I asked him what arkinia means, “I made it up”. Nice answer. I think that’s what I need to do.
Hmm…looks like bigmouth.net is still free…?
I saw my mom in the hospital today. It was a very good visit. Strange to be back in the same hospital where our family has spent so much time. The sooner she’s outta there the better. A good Easter though. Grant sums up the religious aspect of it all […]
Why don’t you own a TiVo yet?
“TiVo takes the hours and hours of shit found on television, and squeezes it into a diamond.”
I want to join the cult of TiVo.
My Mom is out of surgery and in recovery. It’s natural for any family member to be nervous about a loved one in the hospital but I was trying to think of why I feel particularly pitted in my stomach about it all. My sister was talking to a friend of mine and […]
Second-guessing CNN? Look in the mirror
“I’ve having a little trouble with all the righteous indignation worked up by journalists (and webloggers who fancy themselves as journalists, an affectation that’s at once cute and annoying) about Eason Jordan’s account of how CNN handled reporting from Iraq. The general consensus, summarized neatly by Dan Gillmor, is that […]
For the fifth time in three years my Mom is undergoing major surgery. It will vastly improve her quality of life and mobility and it is unrelated to the terrible struggles she had before but its hard not to get nervous about it. See you in a few hours.
Lots written in blog land about the new apple browser release - Safari Beta 2. It’s a very slick browser but what’s really great is that our applications work in it now [some sort of cookie issue before]. There’s a feature where you can open several sites at once with tabs all in […]
My cousin is an actor. I know he’s been in a lot of movies and does some amazing theatre in Toronto, but I don’t hear a lot about his career out here [other than one time in Europe I saw him in a movie on the hotel TV, which was weird]. So anyways […]
Working Overtime
“According to the International Labor Organization, Americans now work 1,978 hours annually, a full 350 hours - nine weeks - more than Western Europeans. The average American actually worked 199 hours more in 2000 than he or she did in 1973, a period during which worker productivity per hour nearly doubled.
This NY Times piece […]
The Sand Wall
“When one of the Egyptian journalists at Feshawi’s insisted that we were out to “occupy Iraq,” I quoted to him a line from Colin Powell: America is as powerful as any empire in history, but when it has invaded other countries the only piece of land it has ever asked for was a […]
Frank saw a Segway on the way home. He’s right, we need one.
“On my way home, just now, I actually saw someone riding on one of those Segway Human Transport devices. He was at the corner of Cambie and Nelson, and just rocking back and forth on that thing with a cigarette in […]
Anti-War Slogans Were Right After All
“I already have my calendar ringed for the date. This time, I am really going to be there. It is not a time to keep silent. Let our voices be heard. All of this has been done in my name, and I feel like bearing witness.”
Emotional Torrent
“A burly 39-year-old man named Qifa, assigned by Mr. Hussein’s Information Ministry to keep watch on an American reporter, paused at midmorning, outside the inferno that had become the headquarters of Iraq’s National Olympic Committee, to ask the reporter to take a grip of his hand.
The Olympic Committee building, on an expressway on Baghdad’s […]
It’s hard not to watch the Iraqi information ministers increasingly off the wall press conferences and not at least appreciate the humour in this editorial comic - Infidels
Redirecting The Mob
The Best Possible Life
“Michael died for two things he believed in: Journalism and ridding the world of jackboots.
And as Pat Moynihan said when he learned J.F.K. was dead: “I don’t think there’s any point in being Irish if you don’t know that the world is going to break your heart eventually.”
Weblogs In Business
“Weblogs inside corporations: I’m currently trying to establish weblogs as an information system inside our company. We have different groups inside the company and the idea is to give each group a journal (a group-blog written by members of the group). Then by linking the various journals with each other (Trackback etc). I […]
Finally back in Vancouver again. Another good trip, now time to get to work on all the stuff I promised. I flew Air Canada home as I always do. It was a tough day for the staff at Heathrow given the bankruptcy declaration, but it seems many of the staff thought it […]