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Technical issues 13 Jan 2013 | 01:03 am
While messing around with some of the settings and configurations on the site, I seemed to have messed up the archives and it will be requiring a bit more work than I anticipated at present to restore...
US Presidential Election – all about the rust belt 25 Jul 2012 | 05:39 am
The US presidential election always comes down to marginal swing states. Electoral-vote.com has a fairly decent compilation of polls and has integrated it into a map. Presently, it looks like this: ...
Do higher lottery jackpots sell more tickets? 1 Jul 2012 | 07:22 am
I have been looking at the Lotto MAX as a very well-structured lottery because of its distribution of prizes. It used to be the case that when the Lotto 6/49 offered large prizes that it would generat...
Law of diminishing returns for notebooks 21 May 2012 | 07:39 am
I’ve been noting with curiosity the impact that tablet-based computers have had on the notebook market. It appears that the price-to-performance curve over time has more or less flat-lined, if not buc...
Mulcair is a real opposition leader 26 Mar 2012 | 06:59 am
Listening to Thomas Mulcair, there is an opposition party leader that is very well spoken, bilingual, and is going to be a very effective leader of the opposition. He even seems to present better than...
NDP leadership race prediction 24 Mar 2012 | 05:43 pm
Thomas Mulcair should win it. The real question is how many people will vote for Martin Singh. Also, Nathan Cullen should do better than expected. A Double Blind post, 2012. | Permalink | No comment...
Anti-social networking 19 Mar 2012 | 04:39 pm
Although I didn’t have a heck of a lot on my Google+ account to begin with, I purged it today. I didn’t find much value in the service and I believe Google’s drive to integrate Facebook-type functiona...
Scorekeeping for the Predictions of 2011 13 Mar 2012 | 08:54 pm
I did not make any predictions for 2012, but I will keep score for the 2011 predictions. It’s been a busy year so far with both parenting and my professional life consuming a huge chunk of time and re...
Robocalls scandal likely overblown 28 Feb 2012 | 10:29 pm
The federal opposition are getting rather desperate to put a story up in the media – you would think they would be discussing something like the economy (employment, jobs, old age security, pension se...
The frailty of utility infrastructures #2 28 Jan 2012 | 02:20 pm
Less than 24 hours after I posted my previous post on the frailty of utility infrastructures, the next day at around 9am a regional electrical substation in Chilliwack went up in flames. They had to s...
