I thought we had global warming yet it is record setting cold in Canada. Click.
I thought the world was ending and the financial crisis would deepen yet Time Magazine’s Man of the Year is credited with stopping the economic meltdown. Click.
The NHL salary cap would go way down as the bad economy would ripple across our league. Click.
Who to believe? Believe no expert that is for sure.
Privacy, safety and security. Integrity.
As a utility service, consumers need to trust you. See this blog post on Facebook and its latest move.
Default settings should always be set on the highest level of security and then a communique should be sent to the user that says, ”If you want to broaden the network and be more ’public’ here is how you do it.”
But there is now an arms race to feed the Google algorithm. I recently Googled a good friend and I was shocked to see the first two entries for him were his Twitter tweets. Facebook wants in on this action so your newsfeeds to friends, pictures published and wall postings all go into the algorithms and are now public fodder. Unless you do something about it via Facebook’s privacy settings which most people can’t figure out.
This development bears watching. It isn’t passing the smell test to me.
The Avalanche is a young and exciting team. They have great ownership and a great history. They are filled with former Washington Capitals that I am very fond of; Joe Sacco as coach; Kono as assistant coach; and Craig Billington as goaltender coach. Amazing. When I first bought the team and George McPhee signed Joe Sacco as a fourth line role player, I received a funny email. It said, “You are so stupid as a new owner. I bet you thought George was signing Joe Sakic but instead you got Joe Sacco.” Joe Sacco was a great teammate and a very tough, grind it out defensively sound player. He is doing a great job now as coach for the Avalanche. I responded, by the way, to the person who emailed me with that funny comment that I found it ironic that the Caps traded their first pick in the draft one year to get Dale Hunter and guess who that first pick turned into? Yep, Joe Sakic. A trade that served both parties quite well indeed.
The Avalanche is positioned to be a terrific team. Young and exciting. They are only four points behind us now in the overall NHL standings.
We played pretty good team hockey last night. We won the game 6-1. Everyone contributed which is important on the road. This is a tough trip: Toronto, Colorado, Vancouver and Edmonton. That is a lot of travel to a lot of hostile arenas and a lot of miles of wear and tear.