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What a Hack

It was recently announced that 1 month ago perennial Stoss Blog antagonist Twitter had a security breach when a high ranking executive’s account was accessed by a “hacker”. The hacker correctly guessed the users’s secret security questions to gain access to the account then surfed through corporate data and released it to well known techie [...]

Marketing 101

Today I show you some advertisements that came from marketing departments that are seemingly run by monkeys who are either 40 years older or younger than their target audience and/or have IQs in the single digits.

This ad advertises that mayonnaise and chicken “is McDonald’s”. Correct me if I am wrong, but isn’t the definition of [...]

What Hogwash…

I mentioned briefly in my last post about the Swine Flu. And today I read that Air Transat and other airlines have suspended flights! Has this world gone mad?!
This picture was in the UK morning paper. Notice that the only place that has any deaths in it is Mexico? Yes, the US A just confirmed [...]

The Continuing Social Networking Discussion (part 2)

Chapter 3 – 5:
We join the book with a new hypothesis from Mr Keen. Because some people lie on the Internet, we cannot be sure if anything is truth and therefore it is all invalid.  Solid idea. Applying this to elsewhere in the world: Because airplanes crash no one should fly, because some people kill [...]

A bright idea!

Sometimes I get to work before anyone else, not because I am overly keen, but I live an 8 minute walk away… Pretty hard to blame traffic.
When I do this I do not turn on the 57 fluorescent lights that line our ceiling so I can sit at my desk in the very back of [...]

Stopping abuse 1.5 pints at a time

Yesterday after a meeting in London and a couple of pints I was approached by a 20-something woman who asked if I had a moment. I certainly did have a moment, so here is our (annotated and slightly abridged) conversation:
Woman – “I work for Amnesty International and they are doing a £27,000 ($50,000 CDN) charity [...]

Sanity or Sanitization?

As many of you who are faithful readers of my rants know, I have this very unexplainable obsession with hygiene. We humans have this insane fetish with being absolutely sanitized from top to bottom, so much so that we are actually making ourselves susceptible to worse diseases, by killing the very ugly helpers that eat [...]