Obama ‘rout’ in South Carolina
Barack Obama and his wife Michelle with their daughters, Sasha, (left) and Malia This US presidential campaign is getting interesting. UPDATE: Ted Kennedy endorses Barack.
Barack Obama and his wife Michelle with their daughters, Sasha, (left) and Malia This US presidential campaign is getting interesting. UPDATE: Ted Kennedy endorses Barack.
This article from the Globe and Mail declares what most of us know already: we're all inundated with email and other communications. The phrase email bankruptcy I'm led to believe was coined was recently popularized by internet marketer/blogger Vanessa Fox. Her inbox ballooned up to 30,000 messages that we not responded to, whereby she declared […]
Check out Change This if you haven't already. It's a compelling list of 'manifestos' out to spread important ideas and change minds, regularly updated. I had to laugh at this Change This manifesto, because it reminded me of a story I wrote a long time ago, but have a hard time picturing myself writing today. […]
Wow, it's been hard to blog for the past month. I won't bother with the gory details, but it involved a toothache that made my knees buckle, and a Christmas flu. Last night I began reading Andrew Sullivan's cover story December's Atlantic Monthly about Barack Obama, and couldn't put it down. It's a very convincing […]
So much about Christmas is about rituals, you almost hardly notice when new holiday habits take hold. By now, Christmas Eve, I have so overdosed on holiday themed music that Elvis, The Ronettes and Bing Crosby practically hurt my ears. Rankin-Bass DVDs rarely are unloaded from the living room player in December, and tears well […]
You have to hand it to former Prime Minister Brian Mulroney. Few political figures in this country have sparked more emotion and debate. Local political commentator and long time Liberal Gordon Gibson has really stirred things up at the Globe and Mail's website. Literally hundreds of comments have come in during the few days since […]
So some poor sap thought he had an unlimited data plan from Bell Mobility. He plugs his laptop into his phone to use it as a wireless modem, and begins downloading like mad. Then the bill arrives. SURPRISE! It’s $85,000. In what Bell Mobility calls a “goodwill” gesture, it offered to reduce the charges to […]
Stories today that have no relation except they demonstrate fate's fickle hand when it comes to computing. First, from the UK an unbelievable story: Britain apologizes for 'inexcusable' data loss. Half of their population's tax and personal records – 25 million people – are lost. Ooops. Now King Juan Carlos of Spain saying 'shut up' […]
What do you know about the fonts you use? I confess knowing very little, and I’m sometimes surprised how passionate people are about the type styles we use. This summer I stumbled upon a documentary about the Helvetica font. Yes, a full-length documentary, with dozens of interview subjects about the world’s most famous (?) serif-free […]