Ruth Ellen, The Mona Lisa of Our Time

1 photo.

How does a politician, no less a photogenic one that took Internet
Marketing as part of her Marketing Diploma at Kingston's Saint
Lawrence College, have a grand total of 1 picture of herself on the
Internet?

To date, she has granted a grand total of 1 interview. And it was by
phone! Today she also made and an audio recording, in French this
time, that was auto-called to Berthier-Meskinongé- residents. Not a
YouTube video, a voice auto-call!

No Facebook, YouTube, Myspace, Twitter, Blogger, nothing. Her online
presence must have been (is?) completely anonymous. Quite remarkable
for a 27 year old. Granted, maybe working in a bar, you, gasp, don't
need the Internet!

PS. Yes, this entire post was so I could show off my iPad apps. :)

Give Canada a Shake, Vote NDP

Bring Your Casio F-91W to Cuba

I thought I'd take advantage of the publicity surrounding the Casio F-91W to make a few bucks. I don't get paid unless you click on the freaking add! It's not as if MY job will get me sent to to Cuba next winter. I'll have to pay my own way to Guantanamo.

French-Canadians Are Voting NDP, and So Should You

The recent surge of support for the NDP is in large part due to French-Canadians in Quebec, Northern-Ontario and New Brunswick. These French-Canadians, most baptised Catholic, have reached the conclusion that only the NDP stands for healthcare over war, people over corporations, the environment over short term greed.

They use to vote Bloc and Green. Now, in 2011, they will be voting NPD.

Charmaine Noronha Fails at Math

Charmaine Noronha is a AP reporter who obviously went into journalism as she was lousy at math (and possibly every other subject).

Mistakes happen, but since I don't know how to contact the AP directly (I fail at communications), hopefully this blog post will make Charmaine Noronha fact check next time she writes about money*.

Repetski paid $96 (CA$100) for his ticket. Ticket prices range from $76 (CA$80) to US$105 (CA$110)

That should have been Rapetski paid $96 (CA$ 92) for his ticket. Ticket prices range from $76 (CA $73) to US$105 (CA$101). Or, if the ticket were C$100, US$104, with ticket prices possibly ranging from C$80 (US$83) to C$110 (US$114).

The worse part is you don't even need to do the math, even Windows 7 has a currency widget that you can put on your desktop.

If you can't do basic math, avoid it. 

* I realise Charmaine Noronha does't read this blog, but if I put some unknown person's name in a blog post title, in this case Charmaine Noronha, and repeat their name over and over, it tends to get good Google ranking. And she probably Google's herself.