A self-employed friend of mine is looking for shared office space here in Toronto. I expect that demand for such a thing — where people rent out desks with phone and internet connections and shared faciilties rather than an entire office — will increase as a result of technology and the current business environment making [...]
Monthly Archives: April 2007
Apr
05
2007
Learn Wifespeak or Suffer the Consequences
A guy in Utah just got a crash course in Wifespeak:
Ad courtesy of Miss Fipi Lele.
Apr
05
2007
CD/DVD Spindles Make Great Bagel Carriers
Rodrigo Piwonka has come up with a clever idea: using those CD/DVD spindles to carry bagel sandwiches. I’m going to have to try this trick sometime:
Click the photo to see it on its original page.
Apr
04
2007
What if We Taught English the Way We Teach Math?
An excerpt from the article If We Taught English the Way We Teach Mathematics…:
Imagine that your only contact with “English” as a subject was through classes in school. Suppose that those classes, from elementary school right through to high school, amounted to nothing more than reading dictionaries, getting drilled in spelling and formal [...]
Apr
03
2007
The “Best Of” Articles
For those of you who are new to this weblog, I’ve got a “Best Of” page which lists my favourite articles all the way back to 2001.
I know you’re probably working right now, but go ahead and read it! AFter all, isn’t it some someone else contributed to the gross domestic product for a change?
Apr
02
2007
Accordions: Still More Dangerous Than the Internet
As sensational as the topic of cyberbullying is in light of the Kathy Sierra incident, I believe it’s still the exception rather than the rule. Here are the statistics on threats I have received:
Number of times I have received threats because of my accordion playing on the street: 6 since May 1, 1999, the day [...]
Apr
02
2007
Kathy Sierra and Chris Locke on CNN (Or: “How can you threaten the cute kitty?”)
As mentioned in this earlier article, Kathy Sierra (see here, here and here if the name doesn’t ring a bell) and Chris Locke appeared on CNN American Morning earlier today. Click here to see the video [9.1 MB QuickTime].
The painful bit is at the end, when anchor TJ Holmes poses asks “How can you threaten [...]
Apr
02
2007
Sign of the Times
When the Ginger Ninja sees this photo, I know that she will cackle with glee:
Have I mentioned that I turn 40 later this year?
Apr
02
2007
Song of the Week: "On a Plain", the Nirvana (1991) and Lullabye (2006) Versions
I was a DJ at the engineering pub at Crazy Go Nuts University in 1991. This meant that in the parallel universe where our lives are watched as if they were television shows (hopefully with the boring bits and nose-picking scenes edited out), Nirvana’s album Nevermind was an integral part of the soundtrack.
That was over [...]
