Last week a US Air Force C-17 transport plane (tail #96-0002) made a dazzling nighttime “wheels up” belly landing at Bagram Air Base in Aghanistan sending sparks and flames higher than the tailplane (which on the C-17 is five stories high). The crash led...
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...
A kid in New Hampshire has developed stealth goalie pads, which he claims have increased his save percentage. Stupid, but novel…. not unlike Gary Bettman. What do I think, you beg? Over the years I have used many different leg pad designs including a white...
Yes, you too can celebrate yesterday’s historic inauguration with your very own “Attack Obama” action figure. Thanks to a crack team of Japanese toy designers, the Obama Action figure will soon be available, fully-posable and with an array of...
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...
The funny thing about Canadians is that we’re not very good at standing in the limelight. While our neighbours to the South take their star turns for such staggering feats as winning a game show, it is a uniquely Canadian attribute that some of our greater...
In this series I will be posting pieces semi-monthly containing my philosophies on web marketing, product design and conception, and of course Entrepreneurship. While the title looks like a grammatical error, it ain’t. “Great” is what your ideas,...
