I happened to come across some interesting numbers today on manufacturing salaries in China and India. The data is a bit old (2006 or so), but the ratios between off-shore labour costs and US labour costs are probably still similar, even if the dollar amounts have changed since then ( Read more... )

My heart goes out to the people of Japan today, after an 8.9 magnitude earthquake (called the largest quake in Japan's history) and tsunami hit earlier. Sure, they are probably better-prepared for this than most other countries, but still there will be a lot of people who happened to be in the wrong place and the wrong time.



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In my earlier post, I visited Niagara Falls during a cold winter day ( Read more... )

On a bitterly cold winter day, Niagara Falls has a very different appearance than in the summer...


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Tomato sauce, olives, mushrooms, garlic, ginger, a huge pile of pineapple chunks, chicken and two types of cheese... it takes longer to prepare than it does to eat, but it's worth it! It's fairly healthy, too.

So what else should I add?


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Wow... 4 months between journal entries; that's got to be a record for me!

Not too much exciting has happened during that time; I spent a week at Dream Tiger's cattle farm north-west of Edmonton, then headed east across the prairies, stopping in to see atomicat and Horsieboy three hours north of Winnipeg. I'm now wandering across northern Ontario, seeing ( Read more... )

Yes, I'm still alive and still using LJ. After a busy trip through the US, I've returned to Alberta in time to do my income taxes. After that... who knows? I may go visit a friend near Edmonton, then head back to Ontario for the summer.

In other news, I got a job doing PHP programming in the evenings. It seems ideal, as it's only part time, ( Read more... )

In a moment of stupidity this afternoon (caused by too many distractions and insufficient caffeine), I accidentally deleted a bunch of my personal files. No worries; I do weekly backups, so disks are spinning and the files are being restored right now ( Read more... )

Thanks to northern California being less interesting and much more rainy than I had planned, I've managed to make it as far as Santa Rosa (less than 2 hours north of San Jose) in time to attend FC! I'll be there on Saturday only, and not staying in the hotel. I won't have Internet access there, and my US phone is acting flaky, so you'll have to ( Read more... )