Beyond the Rhetoric

Is there any denying that John Chow is the root of all evil? He’s been known to kill baby pandas and to instigate unsolicited rock fights in China, after all. The self-proclaimed dot com mogul recently made his way to an affiliate marketing dinner here in Vancouver, and that is where the above picture was [...]

I remember a long, long while back, Darren Barefoot said that he was going to review every movie that he was going to watch in 2006. I’m not entirely sure if he ever followed through on that to its entirety, but it seemed like a pretty good goal. As such, I’m inspired to do the [...]

We are a nation of debt and we are not alone. It seems like the average person in the United States, Canada, Great Britain, and so on all live with with a balance sheet in the red. In Vancouver, we’ve seen rising interest rates and housing prices, resulting in huge mortgages that people just can’t [...]

So, do you like the new look? As promised, Beyond the Rhetoric underwent a bit of a facelift, migrating from the not-so-nice QuickBlog tool over at GoDaddy to the much more user friendly and customizable WordPress. Big sigh of relief on my part. Among the changes you’ll notice are that the sidebar can now display [...]

Well it’s official. The whole iPhone debacle between Cisco (parent company to Linksys) and Apple (makers of the iPod) has come to a conclusion and the agreement allows both companies to make use of the iPhone moniker for their products. Joe Public probably still associates the term “iPhone” with Steve Jobs and the rest of [...]