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MGK linked to this delightful Report on Business article on how woeful the stock market has been this week. No news flashes there, but I did find some wonderful gallows humour in this quote from Myles Zyblock, chief equity strategist at RBC Dominion Securities in Toronto: The idea that there are floors underneath the market […]

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I still don’t have my Caution, Robots wallpaper. Disney. I know, I know, you want me to buy the Blu-Ray that came out this week… and, frankly, the likelyhood of someone giving me a copy over the holiday season is almost guaranteed given my outspoken love, at which point I’ll make my own wallpaper… but […]

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I’ve got a (hopefully) interesting idea for my first ever “theme week” next week that I’ve been noodling on in spare minutes, but just wanted to take a minute to talk about the CRTC’s Bell decision this morning, why it should have been expected, and why nothing is actually settled yet when it comes to […]

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Looks like martian Winter finally caught up with the Phoenix lander. But hey, discovering water ice on Mars, plus another two months of data beyond one’s mission is nothing to sneeze at. Some rake at slashdot suggested we pour some carbon dioxide on the curb in memoriam. In other news, Spirit and Opportunity still kicking […]

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Anyone following the sidebar has likely seen that my last week was consumed with the 30-hour non-stop telethon webcast called “The Couchathon” for Sick Kids Foundation and Child’s Play. It was long, and it was a logistical headache, but it was a *lot* of fun. There’s a smattering of “Best of” videos starting to get […]

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Hey, I won a free small rootbeer in the McDonald’s Monopoly contest! What were you thinking I was going to write about? Levity aside, I’m a big political junkie both Canadian and US (the domestic and foreign policies of the guys and gals down south often having as big… if not a bigger… impact on […]

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“Happy Halloween, Everyone!” (The preceding message has been approved and paid for by the Gourdy Pumpkin Political Action Committee, and WordPress for iPhone)

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Like all the best ventures in mankind’s short history, there may have been drinking involved in the conception of the Couchathon. See, as much as I love The Imponderables (purveyors of fine viral comedy styling over at RocketAce), they have really, really, short attention spans. During one shoot with them someone commented trying to get […]

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