In New Brunswick, Premier Frank McKenna has been a heavy supporter of use of the Internet in the delivery of government services. The Economic, Development and Tourism Department supports a site that details information on why companies might want to relo cate in New Brunswick, and has a bunch of tourism related stuff on-line. (more…)
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We Need More ‘Geeks’ on Parliament Hill! Part 2
Thursday, January 26th, 2012We Need More ‘Geeks’ on Parliament Hill! Part 1
Thursday, January 26th, 2012Recently, in need of a certain Revenue Canada tax form, my wife and I drew straws to see who would make the trip. Having lost the draw, my wife bundled herself off to the nearest Revenue Canada Taxation office on a cold November day. There, she patiently waited for over an hour and a half to get the forms that we needed. (more…)
Tech Stress
Wednesday, August 31st, 2011OK, so everyone has the occasional bad day right? Particularly when it comes to technology. Maybe that is why in early June, no one was really surprised when a British organization reported the results of a study indicating that one out of every four people admitted to physically attacking and abusing their computers.
The Triple Crown Winner. Part 2
Thursday, June 30th, 2011These days, the avid sailor is “seeing the world” on a vessel of a different order than those of his Navy days. Last fall, Clark christened Hyperion, a 155-foot computerized sailboat that cost a reported $30 million to build. (In Greek mythology, Hyperion was a Titan, the son of Uranus and Gaea; Clark actually named the boat after a famous racehorse of the same name.) Clark was so hands-on in his approach to designing the yacht that he bootstrapped the startup Seascape Communications for $2 million to develop the boat’s technological guts. (more…)
The Triple Crown Winner. Part 1
Thursday, June 30th, 2011Growing up in Plainview, Texas, in the 1950s, Jim Clark’s ambitions were typical of many boys of that era: He wanted a fast car. The idea that someday he would be a billionaire, lauded as a visionary and a titan of business was unfathomable. During Clark’s teenage years, his mother, Hazelle Clark – who divorced her husband, remarried him, and divorced him again – supported her three kids on a paltry $300 a month.