Author: Altavistagoogle

I had so much hope for China in 1989. Oh well, at least I got an iPhone. 

The Guardian's Media Talk is the king of media podcasts. And it is dead. As I wrote on The Guardian site in 2010:  I love your podcast. It is like you guys live in a different world. I'm 100% more informed about British media every time I listen. This is

Google just gave me an other hundred bucks for all the ads on my blog (hosted by Google but written by me). I have to admit I prefer microblogging on Twitter. That's proven by 14,000 tweets. It is a far more efficient medium to share ideas and reference material already

Canadians are fat and lazy. And yet we use sales tax dollars collected from poor people's gym memberships, bicycles, sneakers and basketballs (and income tax on their meagre salaries) to pay for things like television, paper books and paper magazines. Everybody benefits from socialised healthcare and education. We are surrounded

New Brunswick's need for a French language university is dubious at best. There are only 250,000 Acadians in New Brunswick, and Quebec's quality universities are right next door (and indeed arguably closer to Edmundston and the Acadian peninsula). Worse, because tuition is very low in both Quebec and France, it

Blair Lawrence and his opponent Mike Dawson are both running for Moncton's Ward 2 seat vacant because of the death of Merrill Henderson. The election is May 12th.  Do either of them have a web page? Nope. Although Blair Lawrence does have a public Facebook page and Mike Dawson has a

5 Years that I've been on Twitter. 5 years. So lets see: 14,500 tweets/(365 X 5)= 7.9 tweets a day. Hmm. I don't know about 2009, but right now, Miley Cyrus does indeed have more followers than Ashton Kutcher.  Paul Wells joined later that year. He now has published 47,000

That title, my friends, is why I am blogging from my basement apartment instead of from wherever successful bloggers blog from. Success measure by money, obviously. The Woven empire though of that title. Not me. The best I could come up with was jibes at Gerard Kennedy and nonsense about

Sure you could try these yourself at nominal cost via services like Netflix or iTunes. But why trust your own judgement when you can trust mine? To be fair, I think I only binged House of Cards and Breaking Bad. And 1 binge per season at that.  The shows with

Season 3, Episode 4 of HBO's Veep tackles the issue of fracking, features a blogger, a smartwatch and a really complicated toilet. Very good, and very funny. Disclaimer: people here in New Brunswick are going nuts about fracking, I obviously blog, I own a smart watch and I struggled with

Je suis vraiment déçu de la défaite du PQ. Il y a 3 partis souverainiste avec des députés à l'Assemblée nationale. Un de gauche, Québec Solidaire, un de droite, Coalition Avenir Québec et le Parti Québécois. Pourtant, avec les Libéraux majoritaires, le projet de faire Québec in pays est sur

I’m not sure what it is about these songs, but I’ve played them over and over again. Some of the videos are OK as well. But really, it’s the music. Passenger: Let Her Go.   Lorde: Royals    Avicii: Wake Me Up Ylvis: What Does the Fox Say? If you

You should be cynical when it comes to a company peddling sugar water, but I haven’t felt such an emotional connection to a commercial in a long time. As a non-American living in non-America, I find this commercial humanizes the USA. Maybe they aren’t an Anglo gun crazy war mongering nation. Maybe. By the

Moncton, New Brunswick, has a fashion magazine. Moncton. New Brunswick. I'm not from Moncton. I've been here the latter part of a decade. My first impression of Moncton: people are fat and fashion does not exist. But now there is a fashion magazine. In Moncton, where half the active population

Planes at Trudeau airport in Dorval/Montreal are an incredible source of noise pollution. So much so that the airport has a curfew. Solution: close Trudeau and make Mirabel Montreal’s 24 hour international hub. Some people in the federal government are thinking about opening an airport in Pickering, east of Toronto,

Jason Kenney, Canada's minister of citizenship and immigration, dropped out of philosophy studies at University of San Francisco. A cabinet minister without a university degree? Even the Harper Conservatives can do better.  His latest tough on refugees law has been rebuked by the courts. A degree is no grantee of competence in any field. However, when you drop out

I watched the Cabin episode of New Girl (City in Canada, Hulu in the USA) with Olivia Munn drinking absinthe. My thought when I watched her jug some of the mystical drink: “what, you’re not burning a cube of sugar!?” Rogers to the rescue. The free documentary “Absinthe“, currently streemable on Rogers on Demand, explains

TMZ was a blog that turned into a TV show. Well now you can embed TMZ, the TV show, not the blog, on your own blog. That makes way more sense than going through the trouble of turning your own blog into a TV show. I think. Although wouldn’t it be