http://blame.ca Loonie ramblings from the Great White North ... Mon, 18 Jan 2010 02:53:21 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Well, it has been quite the year. America has treated us pretty well. We get all the cool services like Netflix and next day (or even same day!) Amazon delivery. Service levels seem higher than in Canada. Getting a drivers license, auto title, auto insurance are much more difficult. Health ... http://blame.ca/?p=193 Changes are afoot in the US, and my arrival is now one of them. I am leaving Vancouver and moving to the Seattle area to take a job with Microsoft ... and you can Blame Canada for part of it! There are many things I will miss, and many that ... http://blame.ca/?p=187 I was doing some research for my voting identity post and was reading an article on voter registration requirements in the various US states. I noticed that in Arkansas, Colorado, Connecticut, Idaho, Illinois, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Vermont: there is no requirement to be ... http://blame.ca/?p=179 The two year Election 2008 television series is coming to an end in less then a month. The world is watching to see who gets voted off the island. The real political action (IMHO) is what's happening in the US Congress -- which is looking to be heavily Democratic -- and ... http://blame.ca/?p=173 In case you are dismayed by the Red team winning the Election 2008 television series, Canada once again will come to the rescue. http://blame.ca/?p=175 "Summer" has not fully arrived here in Vancouver. For those of you looking to keep the skin cancer demon away, this strip has the solution. http://blame.ca/?p=169 It is supposed to be Spring now. It is not acting that way. Vancouver has been pretty chilly lately, and today it is snowing. Not just a little. Great big flakes of snow. (view from outside my loft) http://blame.ca/?p=165 Last weekend Vancouver was the one Canadian city to participate in the World Pillow Fight Day. See footage below:   http://blame.ca/?p=161 I was reading the Feb 4/08 issue of Fortune cover story on 100 best places to work and decided to play with Apple's Numbers and do some comparisons of tech companies. A couple ratios were interesting, the revenue per employee and the number of applicants per hire, plotted below for ... http://blame.ca/?p=159 Today I was talking to someone who had heard about my Identity 2.0 talk but had not seen it. He said he had done a search and I found it odd that he had not seen a link to the video. I Googled my name and the first listing ... http://blame.ca/?p=155