Archive for July, 2006

Steve? Are you there? Hellloooooo?

Monday, July 31st, 2006

I had been waiting, hoping to read that Stephen Harper had come to his senses, denounced the violence between Israel and Lebanon and called for an immediate cease-fire - but no such announcment has come. It has been almost 24-hours since the bombing in Qana that took the lives of 54 ...

More Stupid Human Tricks

Saturday, July 29th, 2006

I love it when stupid people get in the news for doing stupid things. For some reason, this landscaper felt that it was a good idea to drive across Toronto with a First World War bomb in the back of his truck. Not only did he drive across down, ...

Hasbro Makes Original Monopoly Has-Been

Wednesday, July 26th, 2006

Hasbro Inc. of Britain announced that it will release a version of the everyone-owns-it classic, Monopoly, in a very new and updated form: cashless. The company noted that more and more people are carrying cash less and less. In the words of a company spokesman, "we started looking at what ...

One Plus Two Equals Seven; Equalization Payments Hurt My Brain

Wednesday, July 26th, 2006

I wanted to write about equalization payments but I haven't learned enough about the process yet to form a coherent thought. I like to be able to not only express my opinion but also to relate some information and insight in to the topics that I write about. ...

ATI Goes South (of the Border)

Monday, July 24th, 2006

AMD announces $5.4B bid for Canada's ATI AMD (Advanced Micro Devices) announced today that it would purchase ATI Technologies Inc. (Array Technologies Incorporated Technologies Inc. - go figure that one) in a cash-and-share friendly buyout. From the sounds of the reports coming from both sides it sounds very much like a ...