It's been awhile

Aloha all, I've neglected my poor blog.  Time to give it some love.

I'm somewhat frustrated with the politics in Canada.  Specifically the Liberal and NDP parties, this coalition they have proposed is rather ridiculous.  It seems like a bit of a power grab my Dion just so he can put PM of Canada on his CV.  And I'm sure he uses a CV instead of a resume, dirty Quebecois.  Hell, people voted so he WOULDN'T be in power!  But as my friend Steve so eloquently put it, the left has no idea what to do economically right now.  They'd screw it all up ("economic stimulus" eh? that worked out real well for the Yanks didn't it...), and everyone would probably vote the conservatives in an overwhelming majority in an underwhelming voter turn out.  

What else pisses me off is the complaints about the auto industry lay offs in Eastern Canada. Reminds me of a former issue in the east, the fisheries.  They took and took, in the forms of unions negotiating and re-negotiating benefits and salaries, and now they're bitching.  GM has more capital in insurance, health care and pension plans than anywhere else, what does that say? Time to realize that automotive manufacturing is done in North America.  We cost too much.  

At least in oil, everyone I've met realize that it's a limited time only affair.  Get in while and gettin's good and enjoy it.  No one fools themselves that oil is going to last forever, or the industry.

I was reading about information and how we've reached the petabyte age.  Most people don't really understand how much a petabyte truly is, and that is one of the problems.  I was reading an article stating how in the past we could make analogies for the amount of information we had.  So we've gone from megabyte to gigabyte to terabyte to now petabyte.  This equates to using a file folder to a filing cabinet to a library to now.  On scales of magnitude, there is no analogy we can use.  There is just literally a cloud of information that we can use for pretty much everything, and it's changing how the internet (and thus the world works).  There is so much information that we can just use statistics for damn near everything.  Ever use google translate?  It's all just statistics, nothing more, and it works really well.  The problem with this is that with so much information, each piece of information less important.  There are billions, if not trillions, of web pages out there.  But who visits them?

I saw some pieces of shit tagging the metro tonight.  That pisses me off.  Graffiti is one thing, but just tagging is not much more than animals pissing to mark their territory.  I guess we haven't evolved that much.

Here are some pictures from my recent trip to Switzerland, enjoy: