Saturday, September 29th, 2007

Anybody who buys books from Chapters, Amazon, etc. knows that here in Canada the cost of a book is a fixed amount more than the US price. A quick check of the last paperback I purchased shows a disparity of 50%! That means an exchange rate of 50% from US to CDN where the actual [...]

Sunday, September 9th, 2007

The Internet abounds with information about the United States of America since the US contains the largest portion of its population. Most of the news sites that I read (primarily Reddit and Digg) talk of American politics and not much else.
Over the last year or so focus has turned to the coming election and the [...]

Tuesday, August 7th, 2007

All joking aside what good are pennies!? Very few people use them these days and I have it on good authority that only old people dig through their change purse for them. The rest of us pay with a sufficient bill and dump the resulting metal into a bin at home. I, personally, don’t even [...]

Tuesday, June 26th, 2007

I just finished reading an article about the declining sales woes of the recording industry. It occurred to me that the RIAA and the major labels need to start managing their expectations.
The term “managing expectations” may be familiar to some but is probably not generally known. It is a common marketing term that refers to [...]