Some of my colleagues and I attended a presentation by Dr. Schabas (by teleconference and remote Powerpoint) titled “Lessons of SARS, H5N1 and pH1N1: Pandemics or Panic-demics?” I thought it was a fantastic presentation. It was well-argued and with a clear conclusion and a strong, logical thought sequence supporting it all the way through. At [...]
Excellence – and the pursuit of it – truly grab me emotionally. It’s why I like what I like. It’s why I’ve been interested in the hobbies and pursuits that I’ve done. It’s what I have sought in my professional life, and what I am now trying to build. It’s how I gauge cars, knives, guns, [...]
For much of this week, I was in Kingston for the Provincial Emergency Management Conference. This is an annual conference organized by Red Cross Canada, bringing together municipal, provincial, and federal delegates from the field of emergency management. We had folks from Fire, Police, EM offices, provincial ministries, and even a few municipal administrators. While [...]
Just because lots of people are saying the same thing doesn’t make it right. That’s the problem with the open & democratic realm of Twitter. I’m not advocating an elitist rule-by-experts world, but Twitter to me demonstrates how ludicrous things can get when you have lots of people with just a little bit of knowledge [...]
What would happen if your key network or web hosting provider is knocked out of commission for over 12 hours? That is precisely what happened with my web hosting provider yesterday. While I do not have any business services dependent upon the provider’s uptime – this blog and my personal email are not even remotely [...]
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