The Clever Shark

Microsoft: you sell ‘naked’ PCs? Expect a little visit. Redmond’s goon squad strikes again… aren’t there racketeering laws that are supposed to prevent this sort of behavior?

In a move that surprises no one, PM Harper bends once again to his American master and calls off pot reform. I guess Quebec separatists really are the only political group in Canada genuinely interested in issues of sovereignty… generally.

One thing I’ve always wondered is why I kept seeing, practically every day, a motorist getting pulled over by a cop literally within a stone’s throw of the intersection near my highway exit. It was, as I said, almost a daily sight on my commute home. I postulated then that either I was witnessing an incredible coincidence, or that something was rotten in the city of Montreal. Today I got my answer. Continue reading Screwed.

With the rise of PHP for rapid intranet development, one sees more and more adverts recruiting PHP developers for serious development/consulting positions. One of the issues which are raised by this is that of testing. How exactly do you go about testing someone’s proficiency in PHP? Continue reading Towards a PHP proficiency testing methodology

Sagging profit margins means Hooters Air officially went tits up today. Who would have thought that such a perky airline would be unable to keep things up in the air and end up going bust?

Morissey to boycott Canada over seal hunt. That’s tragic now. Dozens of emo kids may never recover from this shock. Will he also boycott his own native UK over its involvement in the war in Iraq?..

Novel reasons to stay out of jail: unrelenting priapism. Well that would cause a bit of embarassment at shower time, wouldn’t it.

MPAA opposes bill extending copyright to individuals who wish to protect their own image. Kinda ironic, isn’t it? The movie cartel believes in copyright, except in cases where THEY are not the direct beneficiary of it. The sheer hypocrisy of it is palpable.

Turns out Microsoft Office 2007 isn’t ready either. It’s a trifecta! Rough week for Steve Ballmer.

Microsoft Vista just plain not ready. I’m shocked… well, you know the rest.