Pissed off about the organ donation thing I wrote Health Canada to find out what was going on. Hell, I have been an organ donor since I would get a driver’s lisence so for them to say I am suddenly ineligible seemed ridiculous. Here is the response sent to me …
China doesn’t exactly have the best human-rights record. In fact, it is down right awful. Amid the child labour and human trafficing, the capital punishment and organ retrieval you can add Rodney King style beatings to the list. Wei Wenhua was the general manager of construction company, Shuli Architectural Engineering; …
As search engines get better, and more relevant we have to look at our own efforts and see if there are ways to improve our own search behavior as well. In fact, if you search for “information-seeking behavior” you get 204,000 results from Google; which is far too much information …
I love video games. I can play a game for hours. There is one however that scares me, Sid Meier’s “Civilization IV”. It’s the crack cocaine of video games. Hell, they even acknowledge it’s addictive properties. When you try to log off it reads “Do you really want to quit?” …
We would like to believe that Canada is a country of great equality and openess, however our government and their agencies continue to promote homophobia. The Canadian Blood Service has for a long time, been particularly reticent in it’s discrimination. I am a universal donor, type O, and don’t use …
We decided, well really I decided, that one day needed to be spent looking at the Grand Canyon. We asked at the hotel if the skywalk was on the South or the North Ridge. We were told the South. They were wrong. The skywalk is a platform that extends over …
It took us about 8 hours to drive to there from LA. It normally doesn’t take that long but we hit a few outlet malls along the way and there was an accident on the Freeway so we got delayed. This was my first trip to Vegas as an adult. …
For the holidays this year I went to Los Angeles and Las Vegas. What a hoot! I flew into Los Angeles on Christmas Day and met Zuimei in the airport. He flew in from Beijing. We rented a car. This is driving in LA… And this is driving in LA …
Two of my favorite people are leaving my work place. Tim and Sophie are leaving for new and exciting opportunities. They are still going to be close, it is after all a pretty tight-knit industry, however it is still sad to see them go. All the best you two. I …