The blackout
On the third anniversary of the date, I want to come clean on my responsibility in the Great Blackout of 2003, when 30 million people in Ontario and eastern US went without power for a few days. Oh, it wasn’t completely my fault, I still blame it on the Radio Shack sales guy, but I [...]
Inspirational friends
I draw inspiration from my friends for all sorts of reasons. Pat, my longest-term friend, does the most amazing photography. Michelle is starting, at age 40, to train in an inter-faith ministry. Barbara makes TV programs. And Susan, after living with rheumatoid arthritis for over 25 years, runs marathons (feel free to make a donation [...]
BlogHer goes business
A welcome addition to the BlogHer lineup for next year is BlogHer Business in New York on March 22-23. As I mentioned in my wrapup post about the recent BlogHer in San Jose, I don’t want to diss mommy bloggers and craft bloggers, I just don’t have much in common with them. Of course, I [...]
Moving in/out
After almost 4 years of dating and over a year of looking for a home to buy together, Damir is moving into my smallish (but adequate) apartment. The housing market in Toronto is still crazy, with bidding wars on almost every downtown condo that comes on the market, and it seems stupid for him to [...]
Travel photos
With the acquisition of my new digital camera, I decided to go pro on Flickr, which in turn has led me to start uploading all of my travel photos that have been previously hosted on my travel subdomain. I’m putting them in sets by trip, and tagging with the locations, so this could take a [...]
Small business blogging
I often find myself explaining to people (sometimes complete strangers) about why I have a business blog, often describing it as an “online portfolio”. A marketing type at BlogHer used the phrase “to establish yourself as a thought leader”, which is probably accurate although I really hate that term. Then I saw this description by [...]
Backdated blogging
I’ve kept a sporadic personal blog on Blogger for a couple of years, and have decided to move the old entries over here under their original dates so that I can retire that one. I’ll leave my Getting off topic post that marked the beginning of the blog at this location, although that might not [...]
Why dragon boat racing is like bad sex
Two years ago, I was shanghai’d onto a dragon boat crew for the annual races in Toronto. It was more fun that I thought that it would be, I actually got some exercise at least once a week at practice, and we raised money for the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation. Recently, I came across an [...]
