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There’s a follow-up in today’s Montreal Gazette to the story I reported yesterday about the guy getting fired for publishing a rather naughty ad promoting Marketing Magazine’s advertising competition. In the kufuffle, the chair of the competition quit.
The Gazette article doesn’t say much more than what I said, but it does show another of the […]

Plenty of time for that…
A note to all my mid-30’s female friends who are getting twitchy due to their state of childlessness: you’ll be pleased to hear that the well-known and highly-acclaimed photographer Annie Leibovitz has just popped out (by way of Caeserian) a wee squiggly human. Both are doing fine. Leibovitz is a […]

The National Post reports:
Rogers Publishing Ltd. has fired the publisher of Marketing Magazine, just a few days after the trade publication ran a sexually suggestive ad touting its annual industry awards show.
A day later they report:
Paul Lavoie, the chairman of the 2002 Marketing Awards, has resigned in protest over the firing Monday of Cameron Gardner, […]

This time of year
, two things are as predictable as sunset: (a) the too-early setting up of the apparatus of Christmas consumption, and (b) the tiresome complaining about it. As such, I will only once complain that it’s still October, yet from my window I can see them setting up the Christmas tree at Place […]

Thanks for the annex.
This month’s Condé Nast Traveler magazine features the results of their Annual Reader’s Choice Awards. Three of the “top ten temperate islands” are Canadian. The undeniable Cape Breton, as well as Vancouver Island and Prince Edward Island, which they list as “Prince Edward Island, Nova Scotia.” (For the geographically impaired, that’s […]

Today was a crazy sky day in Montreal. Around 10am the sky darkend with shadowy and menacing clouds and erupted into a massive downpour made crazy by the gale-like winds. Later, the sky cleared somewhat but the clouds were racing by so fast that Steve-the-office-mate said “I feel like I’m in a Gus Van Sant […]

Chronicles of Lameness.
I work in a place where a lot of the web development is outsourced, and something I see fairly often when reviewing web content are pages that have “Welcome to Adobe GoLive 5” as the page title. Someone’s asleep at the wheel, methinks. Reminds me of the crimes against the Web that […]