Feminist nightmares
Do you ever wake up from a nightmare about speaking in public where you’re naked and everyone is laughing at you? I understand that’s a popular one, but not one that visits me: I’m pretty comfortable with public speaking. However, I woke a few weeks ago from the feminist version of that nightmare: in my [...]
BlogHer wrapup
The past few days have been so hectic, I haven’t had time to blog or even read anyone else’s blog (except for Savage Chickens, of course). That means that my RSS reader is stuffed full of (literally) 3,500 unread items — very tempting to just clear all, except that I’m pretty sure that I’ll miss [...]
Playing tourist in San Francisco
I arrived in San Francisco this week on Tuesday, well in advance of Friday’s BlogHer conference in San Jose, to spend a bit of time seeing the sites. Although I’ve been visiting San Francisco for almost 20 years on business, I rarely get a chance to just be a tourist. Tuesday was hot (for San [...]
Getting off topic
I’ve been scaling down my usual BPM-related work in favour of spending some time on other topics, such as Web 2.0. Sometimes, the two overlap, but often I find myself wanting to blog about something that really has no place on my BPM-focussed blog, Column 2. I have put a few of these on Column [...]
Happy Canada Day!
It’s Canada’s 139th birthday today; happy birthday to us! The best parade that I saw today was the one through Chinatown, where Canadian flags were carried alongside Chinese dragon puppets and tagu drummers. I was glad to be on foot; it must have snarled traffic over the entire west side of downtown. The Festival of [...]
