Back to the old friends
The nice thing about coming home after a week or so away is meeting up with my old friends again. Like that pound of asparagus that I bought before I left. Oh well, at least the parts that hadn’t gone slimy made for a good lunch today, which is more than you can say for [...]
Staying with friends
One of the great things about the jobs that I used to have, which required a lot of business travel, is that I now have a network of people who I know around the world. Some of them are more friends than just business acquaintances, which has the extra benefit of providing a cheap place [...]
Travelling around
I’ve been in London since Sunday, and gave a presentation about Web 2.0 and BPM at a conference here today. Tomorrow, I’m off to the south of France to visit some friends for a few days, back here on Sunday, and home to Toronto on Monday. The funny thing is, it looks like I will [...]
National Geographic podcasts
I just discovered the National Geographic podcasts: I’m in so much trouble, I already have so many podcasts that I download every day, soon I’ll be a professional podcast-listener… I’ve already subscribed to “50 Walks of a Lifetime” from Traveler magazine (a publication to which I used to subscribe, and longingly read each issue) and [...]
BlogHer Business ’07
I haven’t yet seen anyone from BlogHer create an Upcoming.org event for the BlogHer Business conference to be held in New York in March, so I did. As I mentioned previously, I’m unlikely to attend another general BlogHer conference, but a business-focussed one might work for me.
Marathoning with Arthritis
My friend Susan has had rheumatoid arthritis for over 25 years, and a couple of years ago she ran her first marathon. I was there in Dublin in 2004 when she ran her second one, and now she’s running the half-marathon in Amsterdam on October 15th. She solicits charitable donations for the Arthritis Society as part of their [...]
Where were you on September 11, 2001?
Five years on, this is the theme for a great deal of news coverage today, including my daily dose of Rocketboom and the wiki where they’ve been gathering stories. Six days before 9/11 was my final day working at FileNet in southern California: tired of the boys club and political infighting, I had given notice [...]
Rick’s back!
Just when I was about to delete him from my RSS reader, Rick Mercer came back from summer vacation and resumed blogging today. I look forward to his posts as well as the new season of his show.
Moving hell
Seems like it’s the time of year for people to be moving, and almost every one of them has a horror story to tell. I was reminded of a post about moving that I had read some time ago on Joey deVilla’s blog, the comments on which resulted in him getting some nasty phone calls [...]
Not so friendly after all
American “friendly fire” is now responsible for over 15% of our military deaths in Afghanistan since 2002: 5 out of 32, assuming that the rest of the injured from this weekend’s strafing run by an American fighter jet on a Canadian troop survive. You can be sure that if we were killing 15% of the [...]
