Om has a piece today written by Venture Capitalist Allan Leinwand asking whether Canada should bail out Nortel. He asks: “But is preserving the country’s technological heritage reason enough to spend millions in taxpayers dollars?” I think that...
This just in: Vancouver has been ranked fourth on the world’s list of least affordable cities. This is well ahead of cities like Manhattan, San Francisco, London, Paris, and Hong Kong. As most rational people know, the city’s thundering real estate...
There are trolls and then there are troll geniuses. In a typically art-imitating-life-imitating-art groupthink regarding Facebook’s reflection of our deviant selves occurring over at Valleywag, Private Hangnail intervened with the most salient comment...
About 8PM last night my Dreamhost Fail post from yesterday must have found its way into somebody’s hands @ Dreamhost and they finally got around to addressing my emails… sort of. I got the following response, a mix of helpful (but non-affecting) advice...
If you’re reading this post, it’s no thanks to Dreamhost. The past few days I have noticed my web traffic dropping off substantially. I pay $15/mo. plus an annual fee for their Private Server offering in order to host this and a few other blogs. I...
This Christmas season I used the downtime supplied by most of my peers taking two weeks off of work (can you say downturn?) to get around to a number of highly geeky personal projects on my residence’s IT network. Aided by the web (and knowing which...
