Monthly Archives: June 2006
Training others to not pay attention
This reminds me of something else:
Interestingly, one of the oldest guidelines for sales and marketing in any medium is to sell the benefits, not the features, so we shouldn’t really have to harp on this here. Sadly, the web is so smothered in vaporous content and intangible verbiage that users simply skip over it. Of [...]
Ignatieff in Parliment and the 1980s dream of the future
Yesterday I lived in a pre-millennial dream of the future. I spent the day going over my pictures and other files on a computer far more advanced than was available in the 1990s. I watched a video clip on YouTube and downloaded one to my hardrive. A delivery in the afternoon dropped off the municipality’s [...]
Phantom of the Opera
Photo taken 23 April 2003. Click for a higher resolution version.The site of Toronto’s new opera house, which has its premiere performance tonight.
12 June 1996
Wednesday 12 June 1996. Now the day before, with the landlord shit, I made a call for an appointment with our landlord Mr. S. So I got up at 12.30, and at 1.10 was out the door, to Duke St, where I got some money and then caught a bus to go to Fairview. The [...]
W. Warren Wagar Letters
What follows is my 2001 correspondence with W. Warren Wagar, who died in November 2004, and whose book, A Short History of the Future provided me with much food for thought during the period I was reading it. (And anyone who knows me might remember how I went on about it during 2000-2001).
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1.From: Timothy Comeau
To: [...]