Tag: society

  • T-2 for reporting breaches under PIPEDA

    T-2 for reporting breaches under PIPEDA

    Y’all read the updates to PIPEDA? Starting November 1st 2018 (yup this week) you have some reporting obligations if you have a ‘security breach’ of your privacy safeguards. You probably think it doesn’t apply to you. You are wrong. Big and small. A new acronym for you RROSH (Real Risk of Significant Harm).  Who wants…

  • Duck Duck Toddler. A Waterloo Park Adventure

    Duck Duck Toddler. A Waterloo Park Adventure

    I didn’t take a photo of this (I was laughing too hard and it seemed a bit rude so I held off), so picture it in your mind. Waterloo Park. Its got a ‘lake’ in it (silver lake). And the lake is inhabited by ~30 mallard ducks and between 0 and 50 Canada Geese (and…

  • Pragmatism and safety:

    When I was much younger, a friends dad was the local OPP constable. The area I grew up in houses were many km apart. There’s a photo to the right, somehow through the magic of 110-camera stuck winding, a double exposure showing both out the front and back of our house at the same time!…

  • Radon season?

    OK, I said I’d stop writing about Radon for a bit, but, well, I can’t help it. A few readers have written in with their screenshots, and I thought I would share them back out. First, if you read no further, and you live in a house with a ground floor or basement, and you…

  • What, more Radon in the Waterloo Ontario region?

    What, more Radon in the Waterloo Ontario region?

    Another reader has purchased the gadget and found an issue. If you still think “this couldn’t happen to me, my dank wet  basement is in a Radon-free zone, well, you are only right in the sense the Radon is free. Free to invade your lungs, cause lung cancer. If you are still trying to convince…