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Tag: Observations

  • Welcome 2008

    Happy New Year everyone. I hope things have been good to you in the first part of the year and if you are an avid reader here (the subscription numbers must be telling me I’m doing something right – no?) you can look forward to some observations over the next couple of weeks about how…

  • Do we really need this?

    I find it interesting that the currency conversion site xe.com needed to put up an info bubble beside the CDN/USD rate – where that many people on either side of the border that confused?

  • The communication hierarchy

    I made an observation about how people seem to be using Facebook these days – perhaps seeded by Bray’s presentation. I’ve already mentioned that it seems to be the case that people enjoy maintaining their social networks on Facebook and MySpace because they go there for socialization and this way everything to do with that…

  • Conversions

    This is something that I thought I would never hear, but I guess it had to happen. In the gym today, I overheard two of the new people a couple of treadmills over comment – Now that the US and Canadian dollar are almost equal, does that mean that miles and kilometers are going to…

  • Protecting one’s own image

    One of the thoughts that bounced around the noggin this weekend was about how the new term is going to bring a whole host of new people back to campus and schools in general. This is nothing new, It’s happened for more than a century (at least the September return), but as we enter the…