On the morning of Sunday, 8 March 2009 at 01:00, Daylight Saving Time begins in Ontario and clocks are to be set ahead one hour. It is amazing that we still practice this ludicrous event semi-annually.  Daylight Saving Time saves NOTHING.  Never has, never will.  It's just annoying.  Worse, it's...

I was quite pleased to see the Ottawa Citizen run a huge article today on the fact of Evolution and a related article.  It's pleasing because even in Canada, the forces of stupidity would have us believe that some magical sky fairy bleemed everything into existence and gave humans domain over every...

This morning I was making my daily trip up Metcalfe St. when a bit of a fender-bender occurred, about 4 car-lengths ahead of me in the middle lane.  Not a problem, these things happen (although later, when I would pass the two cars, there was no obvious damage and the two women involved seemed to b...

Peter pointed this out to me, and it's an excellent counterpoise to that Fred Phelps insanity a couple of posts back.  Some Aussies take the piss out of the Westboro Baptist Loonies.  Watch and enjoy!...

Today is the first day of Lent, when the devout, and often the not-so-devout, claim to give up something dear for 40 days, ending at Easter.  I've never been exactly clear on what this pseudo self-sacrifice is supposed to represent, but enough people do it that it's worth some consideration. I say ...

Sometimes dealing with customers really makes you think of this stuff.  So here's a few links to give you a headache on this fine Tuesday: Time Travel Wormholes The Physics of Time Travel (warning - likely colour-blind web designer, I rate this site about 150 miliTimeCubes ** ) Time Travel and Mode...

If you're like me, you had to work today (16 Feb 2009) because, although today is a provincial holiday in Ontario (and Alberta, and some other places), it is not recognized federally.  Thus, if you work for the federal government (as so many people in Ottawa do), or for a federally regulated compan...

My audience is clamoring for a new post!  Which, translated, means my coworker asked, "When are you going to post again?  I keep looking and it's the same stuff."  So much for the screaming masses, eh? Well, given that we have been short of any new inaugurations, my s...

  Today is the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin.  Unless you have lived your entire life in a black hole, you are probably aware of the singular book for which he is famous: On The Origin of Species (chapters.ca, amazon.com).  This book challenged the idea that some magical sky-go...

I just finished booking a trip for work, and after reading through the "you can't do this" and "you can't do that" items in the travel policy, I started thinking about business travel in general.  Every company I've ever worked for has treated business travel like it was a perquisite of the job - a...