Mike DeWolfe : The Daily Edition

Lots of hand-wringing going on about rapid transit and how to move people around the CRD. Controlling traffic congestion is like controlling an explosion: you can direct the blast but you can't fine tune it. We need to diffuse the situation. 20,000 office workers are housed in the downtown area. Many of them live outside of the downtown core, some in Langford and Sooke. If 20% were from nearby downtown (walking distance), 20% of them drove cars and 60% bussed; then that means 200 buses full of office workers and approximately 2,000 cars coming into the downtown core daily; and then crushing to get home at night. Do we really need 20,000 people in cubicles downtown opening their email, working on electronic files and chit-chatting around the water cooler? Office workers that directly interface with the public still need to do their work from easily findable offices. The remainder could just as easily work from home or at least work closer to home. With such a volume of people in th...

So here's a rundown of the last few days: I have been working on a way to suss out how many single people may be attending a Facebook publicized event . The problem: the output has been random. And, it hinges on user participation. I have a magical flare for being able to do 80% of any of my recent Facebook app attempts. I have been tethered to the work server-- making for late nights, early mornings and lots of frustration. Sure, I could up and walk away when I am not at work. Just like a guy playing Russian Roulette can keep playing and has nothing to worry about because there's a 5-out-of-6 chance nothing will happen. On Friday nights, I have been reading and obsessing over BSG . Woo! I would prefer to be exercising or living, but when I stop moving for 10 minutes without some computer-introduced crisis being visited upon me, I crash out. It's likely a case of negative re-inforcement coming to fruition. When I start to step away from the work computer, I often get an alm...