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Dawn and Remembrance

Although there’s lots in the paper about it, and people wear­ing pop­pies are every­where, Remem­brance Day seems to have less of a hold over Cana­dian life than Anzac Day in either New Zea­l­and or Aus­tralia. Anzac Day com­mem­or­ates the Anzac (Aus­tralia and New Zea­l­and Army Corps) losses at Gal­lipoli in the First World War on […]

2008 11 11 Comments (4)

Election Ponderings

As I write this the res­ults of this year’s U.S. elec­tion are not yet known. There are reports of long lines to vote, of people vot­ing who haven’t voted before, this all adds up to a sense that this year is his­toric. Part of it is prob­ably that blogs and the appar­atus around them (searches, […]

2008 11 04 Comments (2)

Contributing

Tim has a post where he advises developers to con­trib­ute to open source pro­jects so that hir­ing man­agers will look favour­ably on them. I have some prob­lems with this, as do many of the com­menters on his post. First off, I agree that con­trib­ut­ing to open source pro­jects is admir­able and to be encour­aged. There are, […]

2008 10 29 Family
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Surreal and Real

The news has been almost uni­formly bad, these last couple of months. What had been com­plaints of too much money chas­ing too few good assets has now turned into the rout of too little money being avail­able to buy any assets, prov­ing yet again that there is no intrinsic value to any­thing other than what […]

2008 10 27 Comments (1)

Advice to Politicians

With both the Cana­dian and the U.S. elec­tion cam­paigns in full swing, I figured I’d toss my few cents worth into the fray in the form of some advice to politi­cians, or those run­ning their cam­paign. I fully expect it all to be ignored. For the Cana­dians: If your team has lots of exper­i­ence, make […]

2008 10 03 Comments (2)

Meditation by another name?

Every now and then I think I should med­it­ate for a few minutes a day. Some­how I sel­dom do, although I find listen­ing to a med­it­a­tion track when fly­ing is a good way to tune out the stand­ard air­plane unpleas­ant­ness. Hav­ing read When Dis­trac­tion is Good, it seems to me as if med­it­a­tion and “receptive […]

2008 07 15 Comments (1)