Finally, the new president of the United States, Barack Obama, has been sworn into office. However, even at this very early stage, it appears that a few things about the day may have already tarnished this fresh administration:
First of all, the prodigal $160-million price tag for the inauguration (just slightly less than the budget of [...]
One of my most recent episodes of buyer’s remorse resulted from the purchase of a laptop. It was a brand new Acer Extensa 5620 notebook (here are the specs of the particular construct I obtained), and I had thought it reasonable to suppose that everything that I did on my usual second-hand 2002-era desktop computer [...]
In Ontario, the predictable request of its public elementary school teachers for more money has come up recently in the news again, due to union contract deadlines. This time, there are complaints about the difference in funding between elementary school and high school, as described in brief here, and in more detail here. Apparently, elementary [...]
Well, Christmas 2008 finally arrived with much fanfare, and after all that preparation – the endless cooking of feasts, decorating the tree, and getting the ideal gifts for everyone – a return to the routines of the working world (at least for those of us not in retail) is now imminent. Of those three things, [...]