Gordon's Notes

Few people will have noticed new rules around corporate "health-contingent wellness programs" (emphases mine): Administration De...

In our world billions of dollars are spent trying to get us to read and click ads. Billions. So why are the ads so crappy? Google, w...

The Keystone Pipeline XL (Keystone Expansion) is a part of  a multi-billion dollar project to "transport synthetic crude oil and dilut...

I've written recently about the role of religion in the reasoning of the GOP base . This is an  elephant in the room ; pundits will disc...

It occurred to me that a custom Google news section would help me track the worldwide retail organ business. The results were more impress...

A marketing (legal spam) firm was hacked and a bunch of our "private" (hah!) information was stolen. We can now expect more person...

Five years ago, just before Microsoft Vista was released, our household CIO made a strategic decision. We would move to OS X. It wasn't...

There are superb French (and other) pastries all around the island of Montreal, but Minneapolis St. Paul pastries peak at mediocre. The Twin...

Perhaps it was always this way, and it is only with time that I see it. Or perhaps our media is less interesting, more controlled, than it o...

iOS devices (iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad) come with parental controls. Android OS, interestingly, does not . This is rarely discussed [1]. Pare...

Canada still hasn't converted, but the US went to all digital TV on June 12, 2009 . We were supposed to convert in Feb 2009, but the swi...

I make fairly frequent use of Google Page Creator (still a "lab" product), Google Documents, and, indeed, most of what Google pro...