What a game. Not a game to point and laugh over, not one to ask why the Yankees seized up over. One to sit in wonder before. That little thing Phillies pitcher Cliff Lee did with his middle finger? The behind the back catch? The "I'm just gonna stick my hand out for the pop fly" catch … read more »

Presuming apparently that the Mayan calendar does not foretell our intervening doom, a Google brain has proposed what the information super highway will look like in 2014. The future apparently includes the following:  •  Five years from now the internet will be dominated by Chinese-language …

I haven't watched CBC news regularly for a while and the throbbing spinning new colours are not going to help. The way these things work - like the weird past use of orange on the CBC web, like the nine o'clock evening broadcast - they launch big and then retract, retract, retract. I just watched …

I used to make fun of UK "hoodie law" but then I got bored with it. I took my eye off the ball. Apparently the state spies then took that opportunity to break out the wacko stick and hit everything in sight with it:  •  Suspecting Ms. Paton of falsifying her address to get her daughter into the …

Membership drive? Not for around here. That didn't work out well. No, it's the week that the incessant drone in my head called NCPR asks for your support... and you should answer the call. I feel badly for not going over to answer phones this week and not just because sometimes there is beer …

Or is it. I like data hugging way more than "semantic web" if we are talking about data presenting affinities though human searching. But data hugging is apparently bad:  •  Traditionally authorities foster a "data hugging mentality", which is wrong argues Prof Shadbolt. "A public body has a duty …

I have always loved things. I collect but only to amass. I have bits of stamps and coins and comics and baseball cards and letters and flags and soccer shirts and 45s and a bunch of other conglomerations of things in boxes around the house. Not to mention the things I buy off eBay. So this makes …

I think this is an interesting observation about the attraction of buying "local" as opposed to based on other criteria:  •  “Though I love a lot of California winemakers and try to support them wherever possible,” Mr. Deegan said, “I find myself drinking European wines most of the time and … read more »

It has been an extraordinary time in my sporting life. Not that I am doing anything whatsoever but who does that any more at my age? People looking for knee replacements in their sixties, that's who:  •  Without me noticing, Morton seems to have picked up three wins and somehow found others below …

It's snowing south of here. Once you get down past about 75 miles south of here, snow. I am not ready for snow. I am barely ready for the leave falling, for not mowing. I thought by 46 I would be ready for things. I thought a lot of things, now that I think of it.  •  I was so proud of myself …

Who knew that I would notice the day that Twitter died:  •  Assetize checks the user's followers and a selection of their tweets to see what kind of information is of interest to that particular group, and chooses an advertising partner accordingly. After signing up, the user allows Assetize to …

Geeks. Geeks and dweebs. Geeks and dweebs and nerds. It once was fringe to be these sorts of things even if they made movies. Now?  •  A survey of 16 to 24 year olds has found that 75% of them feel they "couldn't live" without the internet. The report, published by online charity YouthNet, also …

I failed the Red Sox this weekend. I hardly watched at all as they got swept by the Angels. Sounds like when I watch next spring things may look quite different:  •  Speaking to reporters at Fenway Park, Epstein spoke bluntly about key areas that needed to be addressed and hinted he would like to …

I am never sure of yesterday was Thanksgiving or if it is or has become today, the actual Monday off work. Even with the lad stomping around the house bored without the school day, his other reason to be grumpy, this is really the day of thanks - thanks for nothing, literally. It's a confusing …

Not Big Bird just a big bird.  •  I am having a little difficulty coming to terms with the fact that Jay... Jay who has commented on this blog for yoinks, actual yoinks... did not know I have a logo. Made it myself when I was 41. So this is it. Jay: 'Hello, Mr. Logo." Mr. Logo (with a deeper …

I have the TV on in the mornings. It drones on and if I am lucky and the kids sleep in past 4:45 am, I get to pay half-attention to the CBS Morning Show to learn about all the real news. And this morning there was a short piece about the genealogy of Michelle Obama which told about the five …

A very good point being made in the Toronto Star this morning: as part of the new economy that is rising out of the old e-conomy, remember that convergence kills:  •  Today the firm, whose shares last traded at 19 cents, down from a 2000 high of $26, is effectively worthless. Nine years on … read more »

I am not sure I like the new Doctor Who logo. It breaks tradition of not having an implicit or express aerodynamic quality. It is a static image. And it is a logo that represents something else, the TARDIS. It should be an icon in itself of itself. But most of all there is something in the font. I …

The great thing about reading something other than blogs is you run into ideas that you have not thought of before. More than echo chambers, most blogs are conformity chambers - you go there not to hear the same voice but to learn the voice you ought to speak yourself. Not so with writing. You …

The greatest secret weapon relied upon by all other baseball teams against the Toronto Blue Jays has been done away with. Is Cito next? How long to the Oklahoma City Blue Jays?  •  Sunday Update: how telling is this? The final Blue Jays game is not on Rogers Sportsnet. Rogers owns the team. It is …

I like Stephen Taylor a lot. If I ever vote Tory it will be in large part due to his sensible arguments - even when he is rabidly partisan and a big time man hugger of our Prime Minister. But today he fell off a ledge and found himself in a nowhere land where factual history morphs into branding … read more »

It's colder. All of a sudden the snap in the air remands a fleece pull over for the walk to work. I even wore gloves the other night after committee. Of course, it is the way it should be but, really, its not the way I want it. Who loves October? There are still a few tomatoes on the sparse ugly …

...It will leave a bad impression on her mind.  •  See, that's the sort of thing you have to put up with in a Scots household - a combination of corniness and violence that are supposed to combine for sheer hilarity. Those and Hitler jokes and you have 83% of Scottish humour. But no one is … read more »