It’s always rewarding to meet entrepreneurial people who started something tiny and grew it to an enormous enterprise.
So it was great to meet Mike Panaggio for lunch a few weeks ago …
Mike is the founder and CEO of DME, a direct marketing firm in Daytona Beach, Florida. In 1982, he started it as a small […]

OK, just first impressions. Kinda ugly, isn’t it?

As you know, we are all criminals in Canada.
We steal music, ripping it from the skinny hands of starving artistes, leaving them and their 5 children and 3 spouses to the (rather tender, actually) mercies of the Canadian welfare system.
That is why the Copyright Board of Canada is re-introducing a levy on the […]

Recently finished the second and third horsemen of the apocalypse, I mean the second and third novels in the quasi trilogy that follow Elie Wiesel’s Night.
I wonder if Dawn is based on personal experience, or just a short story. It’s the account of a Jewish terrorist who kills an English soldier in cold blood.
The Accident […]

Last night I finished Friedman’s The World is Flat.
It’s a fairly wow big idea book; following are some of my notes and thoughts. This is not a review or anything like that; it’s just things I want to remember from the book.
Ten forces that flattened the world:

Berlin Wall coming down, opening the iron curtain and […]

A week ago the story broke that researchers at the University of Toronto were working on technology that would allow internet users in China to access anything they wanted, anywhere on the web, without being traced.
(Globe & Mail, Inquirer)
The beauty of their technology is that it uses the same networking port that all ecommerce runs […]

When you’re using Windows to power a 2-story high Times Square video billboard, you’ve got to be prepared for nonsense like this:

(That’s a screenshot of Addam Gaffin’s pic.)

I happened to see this Moto cell phone about a week back - probably a link off Digg or something like that.

Frankly, the simplicity appeals to me. The feature list is not as long as my arm:
• Built-in FM radio
• WAP 2.0 Browser
• Decent-sized color screen - 128×128 CSTN display
• Messaging services
• Lantern
I haven’t got a clue what lantern means, […]

Houston police chief Harold Hurrt wants to put surveillance cameras in all kinds of private spaces … including homes.

“I know a lot of people are concerned about Big Brother, but my response to that is, if you are not doing anything wrong, why should you worry about it?” Chief Harold Hurtt told reporters Wednesday at […]

I’m getting a little sick of the European Union extorting money from Microsoft.
I’m the last person to be a Microsoft apologist - I’m a Mac person through and through, as anyone who follows my blog knows.
But what the EU is doing smacks of a witchhunt. Worse, I’m getting the feeling that there’s more than a […]