Web Performance, Branding, and Social Media
In: Canada| Immigration| Life
17 Jul 2007Well folks, I got the good news last night: I am Department of Labor Certified.
This means that I can now actually apply for a Green Card.
Oh yeah, and based on some of the other happenings in the world of US Immigration (here and here), I am part of the group that is either going to [...]
In: Canada| Immigration| Life| RANTING
14 Jul 2007It seems that more than the usual immigration backlog reduction process has been at work in the USCIS. There are two likely scenarios that appear to be running around immigration circles these days, regarding the Green Card slot tease that has turned into such a furore.
The first is that the Department of State, which issues [...]
In: Canada| Immigration| Life| RANTING
13 Jul 2007As many readers know, I am going through the process — if you call filing a bunch of paperwork and not hearing anything for 2 years a process — of obtaining Permanent Residency in the United States, often referred to as the Green Card.
This morning, on NPR, there was a story about a foul-up in [...]
In: Life| RANTING| Technology
28 Apr 2006Rick Segal is in China at the moment, and is writing about his experience.
One question came to mind when I read this:
Next up, you run your bags through an X-ray as part of customs. I did this and the customs guy decided to open my camera bag, ignoring my computer bag and luggage. He [...]
I am writing this from Toronto. I am in shock that I am here, as the events over the last 24 hours seem like a bad dream. It appears that the US media has not picked it up on this crisis. In fact, I am
having difficulty getting to US news sites and blog servers from [...]
Patrick McGoohan created the amazing character of “Number Six” a year before I was born. But sitting here in my beautiful home in Massachusetts, I understand the feelings that the character must have experienced.
The premise, for those who don’t know the show, is that Number Six is a top agent for an unnamed spy agency [...]
In: GrabPERF| Web Performance
24 Oct 2005I have said it before, and I say it again: the performance profile of the CIA Web Site SUCKS.
How can you stand this if you are a major government agency? Guess no one at the CIA cares.
Technorati: CIAIceRocket: CIA
In: RANTING
20 Oct 2005The EFF is letting us know that the US Government (your government, not mine) has secretly collaborated with printer manufacturers to embed a unique tracking code in every document coming from your colour printer. [here]
Via: Travis Smith
In: smp
5 Sep 2005This is enough. Do something.
Read this. Then come back to this forum and tell me how you can support this man.
He and his cronies claim to support the little people. So far, the poor and desperate have suffered the indignity of having their humanity stripped from them by their own government.
Yesterday, we saw a car [...]
Thoughts on the China Market
In: Commentary
1 Sep 2008At the The China Vortex, Paul Denlinger discusses how there is no unified “China market”, no monolithic, simplistic, single-minded Goliath that the rest of the world is trying to deal with. While I do not have the depth of on the ground experience that Mr. Denlinger has (I have not yet been blessed with the [...]