Seen just east of the corner of King and Dufferin:
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Doc Searls on Politicians
Click the photo to see Doc’s original posting.
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Daily Voting Reminder
Don’t worry, I’m going to be urging you to vote in the more important
Canadian federal election taking place on January 23rd, 2006.
However, in the meantime, I encourage you to vote for Accordion Guy in Round Two of the 2005 Canadian Blog Awards under the category “Best Blog”. Voting runs from now until the end of Friday.
Here’s an enticement: a slideshow of my 2003 hot tub party, and the promise of an untold tale from that bash tomorrow. Do we have a deal?
I’m giving Michael Kalus, a regular reader and commenter on this blog, a hand.
If you’re looking for a Solutions Architect who’s worked as:
- An architect at Telus for Accenture where he was:
- Lead architect for the IT Governance Center
- Lean architect for the Borland CaliberRM
- Application architect for the iWay Server
- Architect for SMIS
- Solutions architect / Capacity planner for Rogers Shared Services (now Rogers Shared Operations)
- Solutions architect / Senior Unix engineer for Research in Motion
- Senior Unix architect / Systems engineer for Bell ExpressVu
- Infrastructure architect / Systems engineer for Opensoft
…then he just might fit the bill! If you’re hiring and the list above has piqued your interest, here’s his resume [74K, Word document].
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16 Years Ago
16 years ago, when I was a 22-year-old student at Queen’s University studying electrical engineering (computer option), Marc Lepine (nee Gamil Gharbi) entered the Ecole Polytechnique in Montreal and killed 14 women.
In these times, it’s tempting to argue about gender, politics and
philosophy — and hey, we probably should — but I’m going to leave
that for another day. I’d rather take a quiet moment to remember them
as women, as fellow engineering students and as human beings whose
lives were cut short.
Other perspectives:
For day 6 of the Accordion Guy Advent Calendar, how about something a little more Christmas-related? Here’s The Joys of Christmas [5.1MB, MP3], an essay written and narrated by British musician, DJ on BBC’s excellent 6 Music radio station and all-round cool guy Tom Robinson. Tom’s show is The Evening Sequence
and runs from 7:00 p.m. to 9:30 pm UK time (2:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Eastern Standard Time). The music selection is quite good and he often
has great interviews and presentations to boot.
(Those of you around my age may remember Tom’s songs: Power in the Darkness, 2-4-6-8 Motorway, War Baby and Atmospherics. Accordion City residents may remember Atmospherics as Listen to the Radio, which was also covered by odd-but-good band The Pukka Orchestra.)
One of the nice things about being given free rein to write tutorials
for Tucows services is that I can create my own graphics, like this one:
I use this graphic over at the Blogware blog where I demonstrate how to turn your plain jane text blog title into a beautiful graphic title. If you have a Blogware-based blog (such as one hosted at BlogHarbor or Blogzerk) and are looking to spruce up your blog, go read this article!