Thanks for blogging the conference!

I missed the video of Barack Obama riding a unicorn, but I’m told it was this JibJab video from earlier in the year. JibJab’s aim is to make fun of all; it’s sort of subjective whether you feel that it makes fun of one candidate more than the other. (Obama’s been a challenge for satirists to make fun of here– generally, the rub is that he’s too saintly, hence the unicorn. It may have also come from Bill Clinton calling his campaign a “fairy tale” during the depths of the primary season).

I don’t blame you as a Canadian for not knowing Barney Frank! There’s certainly been a lot of finger-pointing in the U.S. on SOX and subprime-lending, and I’m glad he didn’t get into to that. There will still be complaints about SOX, but I think Frank is onto something that the political climate here has shifted towards wanting more regulations, not less. And as a “rules” vendor we won’t complain about that!