by Rob Cottingham | Nov 15, 2004 | Everything Else
Amazing the difference an idea can make. Twenty-five years ago, as a humanitarian disaster was unfolding on the other side of the planet, Ottawa Mayor Marion Dewar launched Project 4000, a plan to find sponsors among Ottawa’s many families for 4,000 Vietnamese... by Rob Cottingham | Nov 12, 2004 | Technology
Panic Inc. has just retired its most famous piece of software, the venerable Mac audio player and encoderAudion. Retired. Not withdrawn from the market, or sold to AvariceCorp, but just… retired. It’s now free for the downloading, and includes a whole slew... by Rob Cottingham | Nov 11, 2004 | Everything Else
Just a quick housekeeping note: ODTAA has just moved from Blogger to WordPress. The template and existing posts survived the transition; the comments, sadly, did not. So if you’re wondering where your comments went, and whether CSIS and the NSA deleted them and... by Rob Cottingham | Nov 11, 2004 | Everything Else
You can’t find a poppy for sale in my neck of the woods; they’ve all been snapped up. Whether it’s the war in Iraq, the Canadian troops in Afghanistan or simply a growing feeling that peace and life are both precious and precarious, there seems to be... by Rob Cottingham | Nov 10, 2004 | Speechwriting
Just got a message from a public relations student asking me for advice on a speechwriting career. I resisted the competition-stifling urge to invent some dire reason why she should go into some other field (“You’re very brave, given all that media...
