On Selling City Assets; There is a Middle Path

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The topic of selling City of London assets has come up quite often in the last few years. People have discussed what it would mean to sell Budweiser Gardens, downtown’s crown jewel, home of the London Knights and London Lightning. Selling London Hydro has also been discussed twice in the last year or so, and … Read more

My Phone Call with Councillor Henderson

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As a follow-up to my original letter to Councillor Henderson, a phone call and voicemail to his office, and then a subsequent phone call and voicemail on his cell phone did get him to call back on April 5, 2013. Here’s how the call went, along with some conclusions. Councillor Henderson didn’t quite put my … Read more

Letter to Councillor Dale Henderson

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Earlier today I sent this letter to City of London Councillor Dale Henderson regarding the recent revelations that he spent over $7,000 on video equipment, a website, and graphics for DaleTV.ca. Additionally, he has explained he will “probably” keep the equipment, despite being reimbursed, once he has completed his career in London municipal politics. References: … Read more

The Fallacy of the Cloud

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As part of my efforts to formalize much of the IT experience and education I already have, making it easier to present and qualify, I took the opportunity of the recent Christmas/New Year break to start going through Rackspace’s Cloud University (CloudU) curriculum. I actually took the time to read all of the material provided … Read more

Why I Sold Orpheum

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Two years ago I founded a web hosting company, Orpheum Hosting Solutions. I set out to build a web hosting company that could compete with the likes of MediaTemple on infrastructure, and HostGator on price. As time went on I added more plans, did a wholesale move from a cloud server infrastructure to big, dedicated … Read more