Lies, damn lies, and statistics.

May 5, 2008 – 11:33 am by Waye

Similarly, census data issued last week showing the rise of the super-rich and the concurrent stagnation of the middle class over the past generation implies that Ottawa's taxation policies are missing the mark, he said. - Newfoundland rushes to ailing Ontario's bedside, The Globe And Mail I wonder, what does the middle class income look like when assessed by generation? If boomers (or zoomers, as Moses Znaimer calls them, trying to imply some omph) have arrived at or approached the end of their careers, then their wages would be stagnant. And as we all know (and do we ever know, us X and Y gen folks), the boomers make up a huge chunk of the working population (still!). Maybe this is insensitive, but I would like to see what is going on for people my age!


Chinese nuclear submarine base - Telegraph

May 2, 2008 – 3:29 pm by Waye

Chinese nuclear submarine base By Thomas Harding, Defence Correspondent Last Updated: 4:14PM BST 02/05/2008 China has secretly built a major underground nuclear submarine base that could threaten Asian countries and challenge American power in the region, it can be disclosed. Read more - Chinese nuclear submarine base - Telegraph


And we are back…. mostly

April 30, 2008 – 12:45 pm by Waye

About 3-4-5 weeks ago I tried to update from Wordpress 2.2 to 2.5, because... well, because I like to press buttons and try new things.  Also because it was the middle of marking, the end of term, and the mind is desperate to find things to distract from the actual task at hand.  Naturally, when you have a 1.5 foot tall pile of papers to mark, you update your website, right?  It is only natural. Well, I had my WP install in a sub folder,  but had edited my root index.html and SQL so that when someone landed at www.wayemason.com that they went straight to the website, not an index page, or a meta refresh. Well, the 2.5 update didn't like that, so it updated some of the SQL, but not all, to the default.  Chaos ensued.  I finally have time now that terms over to fix it.... and I can't.  I ...