I installed Google Analytics on a site last week. Five days later, after being told multiple times that there will be reports available in twelve hours
and two days after their update saying You should be able to see these updates in 24 hours
the status page for the site says it’s still waiting for data
and the reports are empty.
…the fact that Google is getting into everything means that they run the risk of not doing some things well.
This Hour Has 22 Minutes has been back on the air for a couple of weeks now. It’s not overstating things to say that for the last few seasons it’s been a shadow of its former self; over the years almost all of the original cast has left, the exception being Cathy Jones (Cindy Dubizzenchik
) who, I’ll admit, was my second-favourite after Rick Mercer (J.B. Dixon
).
(I realized while writing that paragraph that the anchors no longer identify themselves. It’s a small, subtle thing, but it was part of the innate humour of doing a news spoof that the Walsh/Thomey/Jones/Mercer-era show got.)
Of the current faces on the revolving desk chairs, Mark Critch isn’t bad given the right material, but terminally-earnest Gavin Crawford just isn’t funny. Cathy Jones is still funny on the newsdesk, but if I never see the Miss Enid, Sandy Campbell, Babe Bennett or Nervous Rex characters again it’ll be too soon. I have hope, though, that by adding Shauna MacDonald—the first bona fide actor the show has had since Mary Walsh, I believe—22 is starting to turn itself around. She’s got just the right amount of humorous gravitas in her anchorperson role, and she’s nailed the fake commercial sketches too.
The very last thing I want to hear on the CBC in the afternoon is Madonna and Elton John. I choose to listen to the CBC because there’s a very good chance that I won’t ever hear Madonna, Elton John, Shania Twain, Rod Stewart, Mariah Carey or Phil Collins. It’s enough that I have to hear them when I do go to the dentist.
There is no argument more useless than the one that begins with the words
But I thought we had an agreement.
My sister Anne and my friend Nancy each reached significant educational milestones in the last little while. (My sister also got married, which is an accomplishment in its own right.) Anne received her Masters of Public Administration degree two weeks ago; Nancy did her one better by earning her Ph.D. in Medical Biophysics.
Needless to say, I’m incredibly proud of both of them.
[Being] in court this week got me wondering if the same amount of respect Canadians show their judges was passed on to that other hugely important field — education. […] But if the culture we lived in encouraged students — and parents — to show admiration and added respect for the weight of the responsibility teachers carry on their shoulders, maybe we would all be a better society for it.
Am I the only one disappointed that tonight’s winning Lotto 6/49 numbers weren’t 4 8 15 16 23 42? I mean, dude.
…in the early Nineties I was a serious enough fan that when I was watching the games on TV, I’d turn off the sound and listen to Tom and Jerry on the radio…. We’ll miss ya.
[The CBC] cleaves to two fundamental objectives: to knit the country together by appealing to citizens’ highest inclinations, and to be an authoritative check and balance on a heavily concentrated private media. […] The [CBC]’s mandate is to transport viewers and listeners out of prosaic reportage on people and things, and into the world of ideas, into issues contextualized through documentary programming.