In mid-November I sent an email to Nature’s Path’s director of marketing. Nature’s Path is a company that makes organic cereal. They’d started a marketing campaign involving several different posters that talked about their cereal in a “fun” way. On my way to and from work each day, I’d pass by a couple of these …
If there’s one thing I can’t stand it’s revisionism. Whatever happened in the past should be reported that way as time goes on. To change something is to be giving a false statement about how things used to be. For some reason, I’d missed the controversy of the recent re-release of Apocalypse Now on DVD …
The latest in “scandal” news is Sharon Stone offhandedly suggesting that the recent earthquake in China might be related to bad karma for that country’s treatment of Tibet – and how it made her cry when she heard about Tibetans helping out Chinese afterwards, despite them having been treated badly. Because, shouldn’t we all do …
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I have a problem. After having watched Blu-ray movies on my home theatre system I’m now spoiled. While regular DVDs still look good, Blu-ray discs look even better. This is now preventing me from purchasing any more DVDs – unless I suspect that they might either never be released on Blu-ray, or that their source …
For years now I’ve used TextPad as my text editor and have always liked it. When it went from version 4 to version 5, however, I found that the new version (written in a different language) had some issues. This was especially evident with the initial version 5 release. The community forums had a common …
My opinion of American politics just keeps on being reinforced. Most recently by two examples of what I would call absurd reactions to factual events. Both Florida and Michigan violated Democratic National Committee rules by holding their primaries earlier than was allowed. As a result, these two states have had their delegates stripped from national …
Here’s just another example of political correctness being taken to a silly extreme. Jane Fonda was recently on The View and was talking about The Vagina Monologues. At one point, she referred to a section of the show by it’s name – “Cunt”. Shortly after this happened, Meredith Vierra decided to issue an apology on …
Again, I’d been holding off on posting anything here – hoping that I could report our condo renovation completely finished. However, there are still a couple of bits left to go. Luckily these are relatively minor. On the whole, everything is done and we’re enjoying our time in our new place. At work, I have …
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I hadn’t written about it at the time, but I’ve re-hauled the left-hand side of this Web page. I think that the buttons that link to resources now look better and take up less space. I’ve also updated the version of the Blog software from Movable Type 3.x to 4.x. While this should have no …
I wanted to save this post for something important. Before I get to that, I should mention what prompted my extended absence – it’s been almost 9 months now since I’ve posted anything here. It all started last December. I got a phone call from Cogeco to say that they wanted to install a new …