Archive for April, 2009
The Great Eastern: Available on MP3
Whenever one of the kids is listening to ‘classic rock’ on CD I think back to a great CBC radio show called The Great Eastern. Billed as “Newfoundland’s Cultural Magazine”, it was a stunning window into the culture and lifestyles of our newest province. The show ran from 1994-1999 and I absolutely loved [...]
I need to start watching more Charlie Rose
I don’t really watch much TV and I watch even less current affairs but lately I keep been pointing me to the Charlie Rose show. Now there’s a fellow who understands how the Web works. Or at least he seems extremely interested.
Case in point: Mitch Joel is really digging into how traditional print media is [...]
Siting a School in a Sausage
Here’s a lesson about how Collaboration, Consultation and Compromise might not, in the end, come up with the best solution.
The topic: We’re building a new school in our neighbourhood. Not to accomodate an influx of new kids, but to cope with the long slow decline in enrollment in the neighbourhood. Three existing schools serving just [...]