How HealthCare.gov Was Supposed to Work and Didn’t The Obama administration has announced that the federal health exchange Web site, which has been plagued by software problems from the start, would be fixed by the end of November. This is a well documented and visually pleasing piece by The New York Times. For America’s sake,…
https://youtu.be/JnSN2GAbThQ I’m grateful to have made so many new friends along my journey. And on the road to IRONMAN Mont Tremblant, I got to meet Ian Lawrence @hybridathlete4life_training on IG, then in real life at Muskoka 70.3. We both completed our very first full distance triathlon this season and I was so honoured that he…
The Inequality We Don’t Talk About Upper-middle-class two-parent families can invest far more time and resources in their children than lower-middle-class single mothers can, no matter how good their intentions. But the impact of family structure on children goes far beyond money. Kids from lone-parent families do worse on many measures. And the marriage gap…
Over the last four months, I have: Produced and co-hosted over 25 episodes of Capsule. Joined Andrew J. Clark for an evening at The Menu Bar. Starred in the season 3 trilogy of Life, Code and Stuff: “Starting“, “Failure” & “Success“. Featured and explained my podcast setup on Vintage Zen. Not too shabby I might say.
“This will brighten everyone’s day” is the slogan Apple Inc. used to promote today’s iPhone keynote in Cupertino. At this event, there was absolutely no mention of Mac Pro, MacBook Pro, iPad, iPad mini or even iPods. It was all about their bread and butter, the iPhone. In fact, they introduced two (2) brand new ones….
BlackBerry to go private? Fairfax Financial Holdings Ltd. a Canadian insurance firm, signed a letter of intent with the BlackBerry board under which it could pay $9 a share in cash for the 90% of BlackBerry shares it doesn’t already own. The hastily arranged deal came over the weekend, according to people familiar with the effort, after BlackBerry…
