My first professional photo gig
Okay, I didn’t get paid for it, so maybe it’s not really professional, but the author of a driver’s education course in California saw my photos of geese crossing the road (taken early one Saturday morning in eastern Toronto) and asked to include them as illustrations for the course. She just sent me a draft [...]
Kooza
Went to Kooza last night, the Cirque du Soleil’s new show playing in Toronto until October 7th. Its fabulous and breathtaking. It’s a return to their circus performer roots of acrobats and clowns, with all the polish and glamour that they’ve gained over the years but no pyrotechnics or anything else to distract from the [...]
Venus and Mars
Men and women communicate differently, there is no doubt. For example, Damir goes running with our friend Susan most mornings at the ungodly hour of 6:15am: she runs over from her place about 6 blocks away, then they go off for 5-8km together. Yesterday, I asked him how his run went, and he said that [...]
The continuing saga of being a woman on the internet
I haven’t been posting my Skype Scumbags recently, but one popped up today that really pissed me off. I was working away and a Skype request to share details (that is, add to my friends list) came in from a “nick desanctis”. My Skype profile clearly states “Please be specific in your contact requests. I [...]
Comment trolls
I have a comment troll over on my business blog, and it’s painfully hard to do the right thing, which is to ignore them. Feeding the trolls only ever results in more insulting comments; luckily, as the blog owner, I can “unapprove” the comments instead so that they are hidden to all but me. They [...]
A surprisingly nice US Air experience
I’m in Florida this week on business (in fact, I’m enjoying the free wifi in Fort Lauderdale airport right now), and because I booked late, the only decent flights for price and schedule were on US Airways. I stopped flying US Air several years ago when their service was crappy and their on-time record — [...]
Wii Therapy
A couple of weeks ago, we attended b5media‘s party to celebrate their new office space, and I found that the foozball tables of pre-boom tech offices have been replaced by a higher-tech equivalent: the Wii. I scored the high bowling score that night, in spite of having only bowled once in real life in the [...]
Pioneer days in the county
Just finished a long weekend here (yesterday was a holiday and we took Friday off) at my parents’ cottage in Prince Edward County. We always have a list of jobs to do when we go down there for the weekend; this weekend it included: Installing the Wii and teaching them how to use it Getting the [...]
Camping for beginners
Talking about *camps and unconferences on my business blog is starting to have some effect: yesterday, I received the following email thread that had gone between two conference organizers in my industry: You mentioned a technique for facilitating a discussion and I think you called it CAMP? I did a brief search on the web [...]
