Month September 2006

Tinkering

Tinkering is the most perfect invention of the human experience and in my mind it satisfies two opposing drives: [potentially] being productive and lacking purpose or plan. We should give credit and thanks to Mr. Tinker, who ever that Anglo-Latin…

Banker’s Cup 2006

Thursday, I participated in the Banker’s Cup Golf Tournament, an annual event hosted by Microsoft and a number of their partners. The participating banks are Bank of Montreal, TD-Canada Trust, Bank of Nova Scotia, Royal Bank and CIBC. This year…

15th Birthday

Posted in the newsgroup alt.hypertext on August 6, 1991 [ref] The WorldWideWeb (WWW) project aims to allow links to be made to any information anywhere. The address format includes an access method (=namespace), and for most name spaces a hostname…

An inquiry into Stupidity, Part 1

The Lens, a program on the CBC, recently aired a program on stupidity. It prompted me to better understand the nature of stupidity. This journey into understanding comes about because many of those interviewed on the program seemed to have…