Mining and lakes - a toxic combination

Lakes across Canada to be used as toxic dump sites | The News is NowPublic.com

I don't know if you've read about this story before but it frustrates me. The situation is mining companies are using lakes as a reservoir to dump their toxic waste - resulting from their mining activities. I can't believe that in 2008 with all the awarness around the environment it's still acceptable to do so. This is one of the reason why I think we must seriously factor in the environmental impact of our activities - and make it show on the bottom line. Should we have any framework in place to make sure the impact on the environment is considered in the earnings of a company - this situation would not have its place in Canada. Maybe this would drive business elsewhere - yes maybe.

Vista SP1 con't - take III

AS you may recall from my posts - my journey to SP1 has been anything but easy. I'm now proud to announce that I'm running a new and improved windows Vista, SP1 finally did install. How so I hear you ask - well finally Windows update has informed me it was ready to install SP1 on my machine and it has successfully installed. Who said a machine was not better than a human, in this case it's Machine 4, me 0 - 4 being the number of times I tried to install the darn thing. I'm now crossing my fingers that my machine is now going to be much faster and reliable. For example that darn WMI service crashing on me all the time. ok now back to enjoying my new life as a member of the SP1 club! ta-ta!

Google 411 now avail in Canada

Finally - I posted about this a while back, but the services was only available in the US. Now we're good to go. Give it a whirl, it's 1-800-GOOG-411 or 1-800-4664-411!

testing your product

ok raise your hand if you give that can of beating to your product - check out the video 30sec James Dyson on Engineering and Design. the concept that by combining good design and engineering principles - it's not because it feels light that it's cheap and a easily broken.

More access to the c-level at Google for Canadian businesses?

 Patrick Pichette from Bell is joining Google as CFO. Congrats to him for landing such a job in a great company like Google.  I'm sure - Lot's of people will be trying to leverage that relationship now I'm sure from this side of the border!This makes me very optimistic about the opportunities this could bring for Canadian businesses within Google.