My Heaven Includes Bacon

I have been struggling to come up with a simple way to explain my change in diet. Basically I am a vegetarian for most of the week, and an omnivore on weekends. Why? It’s not about religion, I am too afraid of picking the wrong denomination to ever choose just one. I can already imagine [...]

What Does the HST Tell Us?

I got a very well organized and informative guide in the mail today called “What changes –and what doesn’t change– under the HST”, which may be one of the very few things I like about this new Ontario tax scheme. Governments often use taxation to try and influence of buying behaviour of their citizens, so [...]

Who Hasn’t Seen the ‘Last Lecture’?

Randy Pausch’s last lecture has come up in several recent conversations I have had, and I am always surprised to find people who haven’t seen it. I mean, the guy was on Oprah, everybody must have heard of this guy or his book by now! We are coming up on the two year anniversary of [...]