The Blork Blog

We’re living in odd times
and some of the rules we take for granted may not always apply. Take the Geneva Convention rules on prisoners of war, for example. According to the rules, prisoners have the right to food, water, shelter, and to not be harrassed or tortured.
They also have the right to not be […]

A sign of the times.
Whenever my company’s email server goes down (as it did a few minutes ago), or I find the web unusually slow, my first thought is always there’s been a bombing in the US, and the Internet is being choked by too many people trying to get information. I rush to […]

Oh, how naughty!
Two years ago I quit my very nice job at Discreet, lured away by a dot com and the pre-IPO promise of riches. I lasted a year and finally bailed when (a) I lost interest, and (b) my first year’s stock options became exercisable. I quit a few months before the hack-the-bone […]

I’m bad with numbers
, but there are a few basics I can figure out. For example, that a percentage can be expressed as a fraction. I bring this up because I hate it when people who should know better fall into the shallow and thorny pit of using colloquialisms that don’t make sense, such as […]

In January of 1993 some idiot kicked in my door and stole all of my cameras and my VCR. I was a student of photography at Concordia U. at the time, so losing my cameras was a real blow, on top of the fact that the woman I was married to had walked out a […]

Calculate your tax savings!
Go here for a Canadian gub’mint java-fueled calculator that will tell you how much tax you will save in 2002 as a result of the recent tax cuts. (It also tells you how much you’ll save by 2004, when the program peaks.)
Beware, however, that someone in the Canadian Department of Finance […]

That’s one nutty noggin!
While taking a break from work today I was thumbing through a book of Mensa puzzles in the Indigo book store downstairs from my office. I can be a pretty smart cookie sometimes, and as dumb as a post others. It all depends on what kind of smarts are required for […]