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Entries from March 2011

Overpaid public employees? Say it ain’t so.

March 29th, 2011 · 2 Comments

The largesse of government organizations, who just can’t even pretend to be concerned about frittering away tax dollars, never ceases to amaze me:
The Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs needs someone to run the Facebook page for the Dept. of the Interior and they’ll pay up to $115,000 a year. Over at the Dept. of Defense, [...]

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Canada in a nutshell.

March 16th, 2011 · No Comments

Over at the National Post, Kelly McParland gets it bang on:
Every day it gets a little bit harder to know when to be offended in Canada. Since being offended has become part of the national culture, with a network of human rights bodies established to ensure no one should ever be offended by anything without [...]

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Never saw this one coming.

March 11th, 2011 · No Comments

According to a study, says the Los Angeles Times, women who post lots of photos of themselves on Facebook value their appearance and need attention:
There were differences between women and men. Overall, the results suggest that, compared with men, females identify more strongly with their image and appearance and use Facebook to compete for attention, [...]

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Someone got RIM to listen.

March 9th, 2011 · No Comments

Jamie Murai wrote a post about the pain of writing applications for RIM devices. He did what I and so many others couldn’t; he got a response from RIM.
Not that this really matters. As I’ve noted before, RIM’s developer tools are difficult to use and don’t really work all that well. I was porting one [...]

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