Category: My Two Canadian Cents

  • This is 2021—no need for geo-blocking

    Jotting down some notes and thoughts for my readers on Facebook yesterday, I mentioned the term geo-blocking. I think everyone’s painfully familiar with this inconvenient feature of the internet: you go to a site, including YouTube, to look at some specific content, and the site tells you, sorry, this content, video, etc. is not available…

  • «Friends» reunion: as stale and unappetizing as a stranger’s high-school reunion

    I’m curious: do you ever go to someone else’s high-school reunion? Of a school you never attended and where you don’t know anyone? I don’t know about any of you, but I couldn’t be bothered even to attend my own high-school reunion.

  • Boundaries are more important than ever

    The unthinkable has happened: more people than ever before work from home—all thanks to a virus. Unlike those of us who chose to be self-employed a long time ago, making it a gradual process of much deliberation before taking the plunge, people were sent for a timeout in the home office virtually overnight, from one…

  • Where Television Goes To Die…

    Good Old Hollywood Is Dying, was a 1974 song, in English, by the Austrian duo Waterloo & Robinson. Looking at what Hollywood does today, I’m singing or humming this song almost all the time.

  • Twenty years down memory lane

    The other day, I saw that Sean Connery had turned 90. Yes, the original James Bond is 90 years old. And instantly I was transported back about twenty years, to the CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation) cafeteria, where Sean and I were chatting at the time. So, I began thinking: What else was I doing at…