The biggest obstacle would be the required flock of Project Managers who would descend on the helpless asking pointed questions like, “What are your requirements” when they are bleedingly obvious to anyone with half a brain. They’ll keep doing this until the cost of the implementation will balloon to at least 4 times the initial cost estimate (most of which will go to the Project Managers). Implementation will take years by which time the product will be obsolete and need to be upgraded. At which time a flock of Project Managers will descend again asking, “What are your requirements” for the upgrade.
Rinse, repeat.
The CanaDoper Café (2012 edition of The great, ongoing Canadian current events and politics thread.)
My little not for profit corporation holds all its company wide meetings online. It isn’t 1993 anymore.
Looks like Harper will have another seat to fill on the SCC:
PM to replace retiring Supreme Court Justice
That will be 5 out of 9 appointed by Harper.
I don’t know where you’ve been working. Oh, wait you haven’t been. 
My government agency uses video conference calling.
I’ve used video conferencing in private industry as early as 10 years ago.
The Supreme Court of Canada was using video conferences almost 30 years ago, in the mid-80s, mainly for leave applications and motions. I have seen one intervener appear by video conference on an appeal in the early 90s.
Man you guys are slowly convincing me that I write terrible jokes. I was cracking myself up writing that, since i thought it was obviously over the top and silly.
I’m going to go mope in the corner (translation: sit in the sun and/or hot tub).
:grumble grumble:
You may not have met enough corporations; it sounded altogether plausible to me.
I used video conferencing for a Court of Appeal matter. Next time, I’ll attend in person, for the video only pointed at one judge rather than all three, which made it impossible to keep an eye on all of them, and made it difficult to communicate with the two who were not on screen. The sound also cut out, which interruped my argument. I am all for remote conferencing, but I want the bumps to be smothed out before I use it again for an appeal.
The local courts in my area are set up for teleconferencing, and are presently being set up for video conferencing. Requiring people to travel hundreds of kilometers to attend a local court is a bit excessive in many instances.
Remote conferencing works well for folks who have their ducks lined up. It does not work so well when people try to introduce documents that were not previously served and filed.
I frequently run into problems with video conferenced seminars, but this has to be weighed against the cost of travel.
All in all, I look forward to improvements in the technology and implementation, for I think it can save a lot of people a lot of time and trouble.
Best teleconferening ever? A police officer testifying over the phone at a licensing hearing, but having to cut short his testimony to commence a raid. Too bad that one wasn’t video.
I am told that ‘Dilbert’ wasn’t meant to be a documentary…
Jeeze, dude needs some time management skills. 
I just wanted to say “Happy May 2-4” to everybody. Anyone up to anything special?
We’re doing our spring cleaning - we shoveled out my daughter’s room on Saturday, then put together a new Ikea dresser. We were insane enough to hit the garden centre yesterday, but came home with a great deal - there were these beautiful ceramic containers 18"wX18"dX21"h that were on sale for $40. apiece. We got three of them - regular price was $200.
Today, after we shift some furniture in my son’s room, my wife is going to clean his room while we take the dog to the lake and attempt to swim him into exhaustion. Then my son and I will build an Ikea bookshelf.
And the weather here has been gorgeous all weekend. Too bad I was doing a show while this was going on at the Art of the Danforth festival - the kids would have loved it!!
Just got back from a 4 day backpacking trip in Frontenac park, awesome weather no rain. Saw/heard loons, tons of beavers damns and a few beavers, got a beaver pup on film, 16 garter snakes, a rat snake, tamed chipmunks, geese, a heron, owls hooting at night, and the icing on the cake was hearing coyotes at night. I regret not bringing my fishing gear, the both lakes I camped at had a lot of fish actvity. Canadian shield terrain is beautiful, right out of a LOTR film.
Nothing special today really–just using the day off to get caught up on a few things that have needed doing for a while: yardwork, paperwork, those sorts of things.
My trivia team is playing tonight at the sports bar, so that should be fun.
We just got back from the opening day of the Cathedral Village Arts Festival - week long festival centred around the Cathedral neighbourhood in Regina. Today was the kick-off in a local park, with lots of kids’ events.
All went well until the Piper Cub just took off - he’s a runner and fast! One of those scary parent moments where you have no idea where the munchkin is, in a large crowd. Fortunately, he ran right past a neighbour who grabbed him until we caught up.
He’s passed out now on the chesterfield with James and the Giant Peach playing on the dvd. Tonight, mandolins and then jazz in the neighbourhood United Church.
That is insane! Canada is empty this weekend - everyone is either camping or at the garden centres.
We spent yesterday cleaning out the garage of several years’ accumulated junk. Then we had an “Un-Garage Sale” put everything we didn’t want out on the front lawn, took pix, then posted them on the local net classified ads under “free”.
As of two o’clock today, we’d got rid of everything except two curling brushes, one set of kneeling pads, and a bungie cord. The brushes go to Value Village tomorrow, the rest into the dumpster, and we have a usable garage again! whoopee!
Three days sitting on my parent’s deck; either on a chair or in the newly-installed hot tub. I burn easily, so I used lots of sunscreen and stayed in the shade for the most part, but still got a tiny bit of colour (on a relative scale: I’m still pasty, just slightly less so!).
We had outdoor BBQ dinners all weekend and I made chocolate-peanut-butter cupcakes and we had popsicles to nom on.
We popped into a garden centre for a few flowers for one last flower bed my mom hadn’t gotten to (the garden centre wasn’t all that busy, actually) and my mom bought me a $2 mini-cactus which is just about the cutest little plant in the world. It’s sitting on the kitchen table right now.
Finished a book, started a new one. Got back into town without being blocked by protestors, and managed to find good parking spots to boot.
Damn fine weekend.
Went to my in-laws on Saturday and Sunday. I survived and we are all still alive!
When I got home, I cleaned my house. A lot. Coming back from their place is like watching a Hoarders marathon. It makes you want to clean.
So, I cleaned out the garage in preparation for the annual garage sale. Looking forward to getting stuff out of my possession!
(I have an agreement with my husband and kids that whatever we sell, they get to keep the money but whatever we don’t gets donated so it goes either way.)
Quite honestly, I do not remember a weekend with better weather than this one, at any time of the year, anywhere I have ever been, in my entire life. It was 25 degrees and perfectly sunny every day, little wind, not humid. It was like what the weather will be in heaven.
You know you’re in Canada when…
I said “chesterfield” once to a kid from Wisconsin that I played hockey with in Wilcox. He looked at me like I was from another planet. This was the same kid who once pointed out to me that no one but Canadians say “for f*ck’s sake!” when they’re mad. I have realized in the last 25 years that he was absolutely right. He also noted it was the only way to tell when a Canadian was actually pissed about something.
We neither camped nor went to the garden centre on the May Long. We did the next most Canadian thing. We went to the States.