Oh Man. I love Street Art
Does this say Eat Yummy Poop or Eat Poop, Yummy?
Archive for April, 2006
BarCamp Ottawa – Workin for the Weekend
So one week later I thought I would talk about what a great experience BarCamp Ottawa was, I hope to do more events with the people from Ottawa [BarCamp Montreal : The Invasion] ;-)
I think the most valuable thing I took away from Ottawa (besides all the new friends) was a greater understanding of development beyond my software service industry world. I’ve got a taste of that in Toronto through TorCamp but the fact is that servicing government, financial institutions and other major corporations is still the driving force of the software industry in Toronto, IMHO. I was talking to my friend Jason who is an Ottawa ex-pat and he told me that he read that tech industry jobs are back to the levels they were at during the boom, but instead of these jobs being with large corporations (Nortel, Corel, etc.) these jobs are now dispersed over many small firms and start-ups. Getting to interact with the people who work in these companies and people who work for the federal government was tremendously insightful.
In My LifeTime
In my lifetime, I would like to see 3 things happen:
- Everyone “felt obliged to whine and kick and scream until everyone has everything they need” – Propagandhi not me
Sometimes I mourn the death of my idealism. - China beats western pharmaceutical companies to a cure for Cancer
Maybe it’s the casual conspiracy guy in me but I really think that pharmaceutical corporations are more interested in making money off of treatment instead of curing diseases. As Chris Rock says, “They ain’t cured anything in a long time, man, you know, diseases are piling up, man, we’ve cancer, sicacell, and Geri’s Kids still limping around.” - I wish Kid Dynamite would get back together, I mean Lifetime reformed in my lifetime so why not KD
I can’t help it I really love Kid Dynamite
So I am going to ping Matt, Gene, Craig and Derek like some altruistic chain letter. Check out what David, Sutha & Rob said.
[tags]inmylifetime, Propagandhi, Kid Dynamite, pharmaceuticals[/tags]
Cluster F**Ked
Many people have posted intellegently about the April 19th ICT Toronto gathering at the MaRS Centre, where ICT Toronto announced their “cluster development strategy” paper. Joey has extremely detailed notes and insight about the event, Mark offers his perspective and insight on the strategy and Tom took the coolest picture of the mayor I think I have ever seen.
The only thing that I’d like to comment on is ICT Toronto’s completely naive views on offshoring. How can they support a firm like IBM (not that IBM isn’t cool) offering consulting services in Toronto when their blended rate is supported by offshore development. Native Toronto firms will need to outsource to compete with these large American, offshoring firms and ICT Toronto should help Toronto firms establish relationships possibly by starting sister city relationships.
[tags]cluster, creativecluster, Ontario, talent, technology, Toronto[/tags]
APOSTROPHE ( You are still Waiting ) – Yes and I can’t stands it
Bill Kennedy and Darren Wershler-Henry¹s APOSTROPHE is, as far as they know,
the first book ever written by a search engine. Each line from the original
poem has become the title of a new poem generated by five robots on a
metonymic romp through the World Wide Web.APOSTROPHE is an entirely new and very old kind of poetry, epic and lyrical
by turns. Neither stable nor unstable, sections come and go, but the overall
shape of the poem remains vaguely familiar, like a trick of memory.
Check out the Upcoming Listing for more info.
