Month March 2007

Office clutter

I recently surveyed the office and below are typical workstations. I was startled, however, to come across one exception to the rule: A work area that was uncluttered! What would explain this? Was it some sort of personality defect? Was…

Hockey Night

Tuesday night I had a chance to go to the hockey game. The Leafs were playing the Hurricanes. I haven’t been to a game is years and haven’t followed it that closely since I left Montreal in 1979. But I…

The One-Third

In a survey published by Reuters Many Americans See Little Point To Web: A little under one-third of U.S. households have no Internet access and do not plan to get it, with most of the holdouts seeing little use for…

A Message

This morning the usually crystal clear announcements of our subway system were shrouded on a woo-kok-like crust of static. Later when I turned on my wireless-streaming audio device I found that all the pre-set stations had been zapped to some…