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...
Welcome, Mats Sundin, to Vancouver. I will enjoy the six months you spend in our fair city, but I won’t expect to see you for much long afterward. In the meantime, I hope that too many deckchairs aren’t reordered to make room for you, because all of...
We all have our stories of a family’s sacrifice in wars. Mine is not very much different. In 1914, the dominion of Canada was prevailed upon to ship nearly ten percent of its population across the Atlantic to pursue a fruitless and unnecessary war. Ten...
Last week I penned a column for GigaOm which has been picked up by BusinessWeek. Here’s an excerpt: “VoIP is dead,†Skype General Manager of Voice and Video Jonathan Christensen declared at an industry conference a few weeks ago. He spoke...
Last week I stopped by the new Irish Heather for a fireside chat about all things hockey with DaveO, ostensibly to promote my team management service, RosterBot. I really enjoyed the chat, and DaveO got me a wee bit tipsy on Kilt Lifter ale and elicited my opinions on...
With the season firing up last week I encouraged my friends at Terapeak to take a look at the transaction data around the various franchises on eBay. Here’s what they came up with … not entirely unexpected.
Hey, Mr. Hedge Fund genius… times are about to get tough as New York’s streets get rougher from all those homeless former high-risk mortgage-holders, newly laid off by their investment bank employers. But you’re still doing OK, thanks to the U.S....
There’s a saying in business that goes “eat what you kill”. It seems Wall Street believes in this mantra, right up until they become the prey. Nonetheless, Wall Street is currently dining out on the U.S. Taxpayer. Thank your congressman in a month or...
An expensively-produced, celebrity-sprinkled video has been spreading virally around the web, preaching to the already converted that they need to “get out and vote”. Apparently this is Google’s handiwork. But is Hollywood/Silicon Valley really...
It seems there’s some interest in the San Fernando Valley as well!
