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 it when [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]