Traffic Report: One Year Reviewed

One of piece of collateral damage caused by the DOS attack on this site last year, and the associated move off the disappointing hosting service ExpertHost to HostMonsters, was the loss of the site’s traffic stats database. A full year of data has now been accumulated. Here is a page documenting audience numbers and main …

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Gas Busters Part 47: Transparency Changes for Ontario’s Deficient Laws and Gov’t IT

The reason I started the Gas Busters series was because the government’s initial document dump in response to motions passed by the legislature requiring disclosure appeared to be an intentional attempt to conceal the truth about what happened with the gas plants. Turning thousands of pages of information into image-only scans looked like the type …

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Ontario Electricity Regulation Crisis Report Part 81: Summary of Tweets on Toronto Hydro

What follows is a summary of my tweets and retweets on the subject of Toronto Hydro. The time period reported here extends back to the the release of a key Ontario Energy Board decision issued January 5, 2012 related to one of the utility’s rate increase proposals. The presentation is in reverse chronological order and …

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4th Anniversary Summary Series Part 2: About Dave

I am the systems admin for Tom’s website. We are brothers. I work more out of a brotherly obligation rather than for the money. Tom’s voice needs to be heard and he sweats out mountains of original content for public benefit. Against the small fraction of the content on the web is original, Tom’s website …

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4th Anniversary Summary Series Part 1

Today is the 4th anniversary of this site. Over the course of the next few weeks, I will be presenting a series of commentaries celebrating this anniversary. These commentaries will attempt to draw together the threads of thought now scattered among the more than 400 primary postings and thousands of comments on this site. Among …

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