View from the Edge

Looks like access to the Global Paradigm domain has been spotty over the past little while.  I noticed this morning my router was having some serious issues, and after checking a few other things out, there was no doubt at the end the problem was the router itself.
After the problem last week, it seemed pretty […]

I was looking through some friend’s blogs today, and I noticed that a good friend of mine from Moncton reviewed Firefox 2.0 for Mac OS X. I wasn’t aware Firefox 2.0 was out yet … I’d still been using 1.5.7 … but after reading Mike’s review of the OS X version, I figured I […]

That quote is usually attributed to Mark Twain, but whatever the provenance, most of us are well aware that statistics can be used to mislead us as much as they can enlighten us. There are some classic ways that stats can be used to mislead us … attempting to correlate data that has no […]

There are a few steps in my path to becoming a space geek.  The first step is pretty clear, and I’ve mentioned it here before … watching the Apollo/Soyuz linkup as a kid, along with some pretty amazing colour illustrations in an encyclopedia set my family had.  But a key part of solidifying that fascination […]

On Monday Oct 23, 2006, Bob Clarke stepped down as GM of the Philadelphia Flyers, bringing to a close an era of hockey in Philadelphia. One sports columnist this week talked, with no indication of irony, of how Clarke ‘bled’ for the Flyers, and of course in his case, its quite literal … the blood-streaked, […]

You’ve heard of the “dog days of summer?” Well, for me, that gets reversed a little bit. In my day job, I am extremely busy for the months of May-Oct, often working 12 or 13 hour days 7 days a week for as long as 4 weeks at a time. The flip […]

"You should have to advertise whatever price the customer is forced to pay to take the product out of your store," I muttered to the cashier as I stormed out of Future Shop this morning. You’d think I’d be used to the rebate scam by now, but it s…

This recent picture from the Cassini spacecraft is fascinating in its own right. While shots of earth from orbit are commonplace these days, the perspective of our planet from the outer solar system is still relatively unique. Other than Cassini, Voyager 1 is the only other space craft to get a picture of […]

Yesterday (Oct 18, 2006) Garth Turner, Member of Parliament for Halton Ontario, was ejected from the Conservative Party Caucus. While initially it was only an action of his provincial caucus (IE, it was actually Ontario Conservatives, not national ones, who voted on his ejection), later in the day the national caucus approved the decision. […]

“No freeman shall be taken or imprisoned or disseised or exiled or in any way destroyed, nor will we go upon him nor will we send upon him except upon the lawful judgement of his peers or the law of the land.”
Article 39, Magna Carta, 1215
For close to 800 years, the principle of Habeas Corpus […]