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Real Magazine Features - check this out. - Thursday, July 3rd 2008 2:54 PM
When I first heard of 'digital magazine', I didn't expect anything that actually resembled a real magazine. Let's face it, we are in an age of clicking to 'navigate', not...
Lawn Mowing - The Taliban Cure! - Thursday, July 3rd 2008 2:44 PM
The lawn mowing season is here, and my window is open to enjoy the summer air. Together with that air, just about every other day, there is some pinhead with a lawn tractor that...
An Old Guys View On Personal Mobility - Thursday, July 3rd 2008 2:00 PM
It is interesting the way things have gone as far as wheelchairs go, at least during my lifetime. When I was young, if we saw someone in a wheelchair they were normally almost...
How Google Made Me Into A Saint. - Wednesday, July 2nd 2008 4:59 PM
You have to laugh.We all have seen these ads that are tailored to suit the page content. Google Adsense. Works great most of the time, giving appropriate ads for Bravenet to...
Canada Day - Tuesday, July 1st 2008 9:23 AM
Today Is Canada Day. Here in Canada, we celebrate the birthday of our country.There are fairgrounds all over the place, and village fetes, as well as fireworks later on once it...
A Step On The Way As An Author - Tuesday, July 1st 2008 9:07 AM
If you are an avid author, you might well have submitted manuscripts for publishing as a book. It is a strange fact that the acceptance of a manuscript is really no measure of...
Will Decentralized Capitalism Be The New Global Trade System? - Tuesday, July 1st 2008 7:55 AM
We know that communism doesn't generally work (Cuba might be an exception), and we will soon have it confirmed that capitalism as we know it cannot withstand a non-expanding...
Do Corporations Increase Efficiency During Harder Times? - Monday, June 30th 2008 5:31 PM
It is an interesting human 'failing' that when all is running well, we tend to sit back and enjoy things. The same applies to corporations, and to a lesser degree, smaller...
Communication Is Paramount In Business Success, Including Listening! - Monday, June 30th 2008 5:23 PM
Marketing Analytics may sound confusing, but it it just a case of measuring statistically what the markets are doing, and the direction of any visible trends. The clients of...
Perhaps Ironically, This Blog Yet Again Accepted For Advertising Content - Thursday, June 26th 2008 2:29 PM
Yes, it is true. This blog, which has in the past specialized in bringing to the forefront the faults with corporations, politicians, the capitalist system, and civil servants,...
Americans Adjusting To The Economy? What Hogwash! - Wednesday, June 18th 2008 4:23 AM
Americans Adjusting To The Economy?Reuters news agency has done a poll in the US and one commentator has come to the conclusion that 'Gloomy Americans' are adjusting to the...
Paying Kids For Reward At School - Preposterous! - Friday, June 13th 2008 3:55 AM
Yahoo news reports that in the US, some schools are experimenting with paying kids for achieving at school.I have some far better ideas - how about we start fining the parents...
Wal Mart - Good Service, Or Poor? - Tuesday, June 10th 2008 9:53 AM
Wal Mart - Good Service, Or Poor?If you read this blog regularly, you will know my skepticism for the capability of managerial people to actually use common-sense. I have never...
Are The Oil Companies And Governments Stifling Renewable Technology? - Friday, June 6th 2008 6:10 AM
Are The Oil Companies And Governments Stifling Renewable Technology?To get a good answer to this question, we have to look at the structure of things. The information that...
Why Politicians Might Prefer High Oil Prices - Tuesday, June 3rd 2008 7:25 PM
Oil Prices At High Levels Benefit Politicians. Politicians throughout the world have the human trait of wanting as easy a life as they can get (Don't we all!) and so let's take...
TV Ads That 'Work' by Annoyance - should we boycott the products? - Monday, June 2nd 2008 2:47 PM
Mothers Against Drunk Driving, Viagra - what do they have in common? There seems to be a tend towards annoying TV ads, presumably in order to get the attention of the viewer....
More About Customer Service - Is There A Dual Standard? - Thursday, May 29th 2008 10:05 AM
Customer service - the very name gives an impression of individuals working on behalf of the customers to resolve any issues that might have arisen with the product, or the...
Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper Agrees With Me! - Monday, May 26th 2008 10:57 AM
Actually, I am not sure if the Prime Minister of Canada Stephen Harper agrees with me or not, but in any case, relative to my blog entry of January 1st 2008, he has recently...
Sony, Sony, Sony, Groan, Groan, Groan. Poor Customer Service Continues. - Sunday, May 25th 2008 6:38 PM
UNBELIEVABLE!Have you ever noticed that if you are driving behind a vehicle that fails to signal a turn, that they will likely also cruise through stop signs in a slow rolling...
More About Sony - The Sales Are Sabotaged By Stupidity - Thursday, May 22nd 2008 5:51 PM
The Good Name Of SonyIt might be the case that Sony are riding on a good name they made years ago, but have dropped backwards since then.I decided to let them know what I...
Sony Laptop - Maybe A Poor Product? - Certainly Disappointing. - Tuesday, May 20th 2008 4:55 AM
My wife bought a laptop from a friend who had just bought it new a few days before, but 'could not figure out how it works'. Presumably the same user didn't feel she wanted to...
Are Internet Tools and Statistics Reliable? It Seems Not - Saturday, May 17th 2008 3:19 AM
Varying Results For Page Rank As I look deeper into the internet, and web pages, as well as the methods that are used to decide if a page is 'good' or 'bad', it is interesting...
Do Television Documentaries Distort The Truth and Facts? - Wednesday, May 14th 2008 12:27 PM
As regular readers of this blog will be aware, I hold the same views as appear to be held by those responsible for the production of many television documentaries.Documentaries...
Canadian Tire Corporation - A Danger to The Public - actual case. - Tuesday, May 13th 2008 6:28 AM
Here in Canada we have a large chain store called Canadian Tire that started as tire store, and expanded to be an automotive accessory store, and is now a hardware and even...
Bravenet Gets It Right! - Monday, May 12th 2008 12:58 PM
Now if you are here and read my whining on a regular basis, you will know what I think of stupid people designing stupid items, or webpages for that matter, making it as...