Corporate stupidity not just in America!

http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/story/2012/04/05/rogers-contracts-marketplace.html

I'm not a legal expert, but to me this calls into question whether signing a 'contract' for services at any given 'rate' is valid, given that one party can change the rate of charge for service, pretty much at will.

Or, to put it another way ...

"... the problem is that long-term contracts are supposed to provide certainty about the amount a customer has to pay, but that certainty is "destroyed" if Rogers can change its rates. Yet unhappy customers are unable to leave without paying hefty fees."

Climate Change Denial and ALEC and the failure of the US media.

As reported by Media Matters.

http://mediamatters.org/research/201204060006?lid=1192926&rid=65854112

Starting in 2008 seven states -- Louisiana, South Dakota, Kentucky, New Mexico, Tennessee, Oklahoma, and Texas -- passed measures or promoted policies that would change the education curriculums in their states to begin teaching "different perspectives" in environmental science instruction. The major newspapers in each of these states gave varying coverage to the issue with some not even covering the issue at all. In addition a Media Matters investigation shows that, despite the appearance that these state proposals and model legislation by the conservative organization the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), not once did these newspapers mention ALEC or their model legislation in their coverage.

RIP - Jim Marshall. Rock Guitar falls silent

Leo Fender may have created the most famous guitar ever.

Les Paul may have created the best rock guitar ever.

Seth Lover may have define the rock guitar sound.

But it was Jim Marshall who made them all be heard to all of us.

(picture source: Digital Trends)

JIM MARSHALL

July 29, 1923 – April 5, 2012

Doesn't anybody know how to create a test plan for rolling out a web site?

http://www.cbc.ca/news/health/story/2012/04/05/hospital-database-crash.html

I mean seriously - doesn't anyone think about load testing? Gathering requirements?

The new website was launched Wednesday and the owners expected about 200 people to check it out.


But more than 300,000 people swamped the site a few hours after it went live and the server hosting it crashed.

Very cool!

I always like this theme. The later versions were cool

What's wrong with this picture?

I know - they are a new form of sweet potatoes? Ones that look like mangoes, and don't come in the as-advertised 10 pound bag?

Pretty cool.

Anytime one gets to hear some part of the Abbey Road Medley.

When you can get Sir Paul, along with a few other 'folks', you usually get something magical -