I began work on this site late last week, and am launching it today, with a bit less content than I had hoped, but with a decent start.
ReallyNotALeader aims to make plain the many ways in which Stephen Harper fails to live up to his own rhetoric: the central premise of this blog is that [...]
Monthly Archives: September 2008
Launch of ReallyNotALeader.ca
September 30, 2008 – 9:49 pm
Slavoj Zizek: McCain is Bush with lipstick
September 28, 2008 – 7:47 am
The true message to American voters from the Republican Party, says Zizek, is: “you have the right not to understand. We will sell you this rhetoric about populist revolt and fighting Washington, but really you know we have the backroom boys like Karl Rove, Dick Cheney and so on, who will take care of things, [...]
Google’s confusing and questionable advice on URL rewriting
September 24, 2008 – 11:09 am
Kudos to the Google Webmaster Central Blog for what seems like a conscious effort to try to address head-on the concerns of the community over common problem areas like duplicate content and 404s. But their most recent effort, which examines the pros and cons of statics vs. dynamic URLs from Google’s point of view, seem [...]
Littering in outer space
September 23, 2008 – 5:48 pm
As if seeing the earth from space was not already uprooting enough (PDF).
ThoughtWorks in Toronto: Forging a new alliance between business and IT
September 18, 2008 – 2:10 pm
I attended this morning’s Toronto edition of ThoughtWorks‘ new Quarterly Technology Briefing, on the subject of Forging a New Alliance: Cutting-edge software to power the Business/IT relationship. I was a bit turned off by the title, which sounds kind of “marketing speak”ish, but was convinced by the fact that Martin Fowler, ThoughtWorks’ Chief Scientist, would [...]