Alex Reid

I’m happy that Apple announced they are opening an Apple Store in Polo Park in October 2009, not just because I’m a recent Apple convert, but because Apple Stores are attractive.

No word on how this will affect neighbouring Apple retailers (Advance Electronics, Best Buy & Future Shop).

The City of New York sent out a survey last June to 100,000 randomly-selected New York City households to gauge the opinions on a wide range of city services.

“In the private sector, I learned you can never acquire too much pertinent data to help improve your business,” said Mayor Bloomberg in a press release in December 2008 when the City released the survey results. “With the economy causing tax revenues to fall, it’s more important than ever for City agencies to be effective, efficient, and responsive. To do that, we need to obtain as much accurate information as possible to make smart decisions about where to invest our limited resources.

Now The New York Times has taken that data and produced a nice map indicating the survey results in five light to dark colours. Light colours mean good and dark colours means the residents are not happy.

Interestingly, the top two issues for the poor and rich alike: rats and street noise.

Also see The New York Times’ Represent tool.

(props to West End Dumplings for finding this; rats)

Misericordia is the first hospital in Winnipeg to offer free Internet access to patients while they wait for medical attention. Patients receive the network password when they register and hose without their own computer devices can use one of two computer kiosks.