silentblue | QuantifiedIntelligent enterprise and knowledge management. Critical thinking and innovative technology. Fat-free and dolphin safeDesperately seeking Sabia- October 27, 2007 The Globe and Mail has a well-written article showing a behind-the-scenes look at BCE and CEO Michael Sabia, and a blow-by-blow account of how the BCE privatization went down. Other topics include his stint in Ottawa in his younger years crafting the GST, Project Galileo, the 2005 bid to take over Fido, and why Telus bowed out of the bidding war: According to Sabia and the BCE camp, no such agreement was ever struck. "Telus's position, for instance, on antitrust remedies" asked Sabia....http://www.silentblue.net/mtarchives/2007/1026-desperately-seeking-sabia.php The Myanmar regime is pants- October 19, 2007 Protests against the recent crackdown on Buddhist monks in Burma by the military dictatorship have gone below the belt. Lanna Action for Burma has called for the women of the world to send their underwear to Myanmar embassies: The group, Lanna Action for Burma, says the country's superstitious generals, especially junta leader Gen. Than Shwe, also believe that contact with women's underwear saps them of power... Hilton said women in Thailand, Australia, Singapore, England and other European...http://www.silentblue.net/mtarchives/2007/1019-the-myanmar-regime-is-pants.php |