A huge portion of my time at Nortel has been spent on the company’s Green story and its Corporate Social Responsibility efforts. As such, today is a pretty cool day at Nortel — as the company begins to shout from the rooftops about how its product portfolio is leaps and bounds more energy efficient than those of rival Cisco through a very strategic ad/communications campaign. Check out the ads in the Wall Street Journal and San Jose Mercury News, respectively, here and here.

And type “the Cisco Energy Tax” into your search engine and follow the links. Congrats all around to my peeps at Nortel.

Some fun with Animoto, which I learned about on Techcrunch.com. Thanks again Mr. Arrington. (Oh and for you lurkers, we had a baby).

When I was a kid I always wanted one of those kickass arcade games — the full sized ones like they had at Chuck E Cheese and the pizza shop down the street. Then, as a teenager, a friend of mine was throwing out (w00t! w00t!) his Space Invaders game (left). I snapped it up and took it down to my parents’ basement. It was gold. We played for hours and hours until the bulb died. We couldn’t find a replacement bulb for it so we got rid of it. (Those were pre-Internet days and I bet we could find a replacement bulb today). My dad replaced that with an air hockey table which used for a bit, but then turned into a buffet table when we had parties.

That was one longwinded intro to a cool list I found online today: The 50 Greatest Arcade Cabinets in Video Game History.  Can you guess No. 1? (hint: 730 pounds of pure disc-throwing joy)

After much discussion and  speculation about its timing, the “is” on facebook’s status is DEAD! Good riddance to bad is.

Now I can put my favourite Seinfeld quote, witty observation or latke recipe beside my name.

Or, maybe I’ll just add in the is:

“Richard Bloom is realizing old habits die hard.”

Snapped these while at Loblaw’s the other day. I really should’ve bought the General Tao chips and I’m curious as to what Smokin’ Stampede taste like. Mmmmmmm….ribs.