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?
Category Archives: Best Of
The “Best Of” Articles
April 3, 2007 – 3:20 pm
My most linked-to article of 2003, part 1: Blogs Save Lives!
January 20, 2004 – 6:50 pm
What happened to me and the new girl (or, “The girl who cried Webmaster”)
At
least a couple of readers of this blog guessed that something was wrong
when the “Ten Cool Things About the New Girl” blog entry from last week
got yanked. They were right, [...]
The Best Christmas Present Ever (originally posted Tuesday, December 24, 2002)
December 9, 2003 – 5:08 pm
I was in a store on Queen Street that specialized in the kind of funky clothing that appealed to club-goers and the snowboard/skateboard set, looking for cheap presents for my cousins. The manager saw me and asked “You don’t still have crabs, do ya?”
It took me a moment to realize what she was [...]
A conversation in California (originally posted Saturday, February 23, 2002)
November 26, 2003 – 4:38 am
Thursday, February 14th: Mountain View
The scene:
About 1:30 a.m. on Castro Street, Mountain View’s main strip. Jill and I are outside Molly McGee’s. We’ve been drinking and dancing for a while. We left as soon as the DJ started playing the Grease Megamix, a crime that should be punishable by public execution followed by public peeing-on. [...]
Microsoft gets security religion, part 1 (originally published Wednesday, January 23, 2002)
November 25, 2003 – 5:49 am
Conway’s Law
My friend Adam Smith used to have this quote from The Mythical Man-Month as a .sig for his e-mails:
Conway’s Law: Organizations which design systems are constrained to produce systems which are copies of the communication structures of these organizations.
Adam summarizes this statement as “You build what you are.”
My own Microsoft security crack
Sometimes, when people [...]
Saturday night (originally published Monday, January 14, 2002)
November 25, 2003 – 5:47 am
Gratitude
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
I would like to thank my family, friends, former co-workers and acquaintances, both “real world” and online. Thank you for asking how I’m doing, for saying all those kind words about me, for buying me dinner, for asking for my resume for future reference, for offering to hook me up with people [...]
Elegy (originally published Thursday, January 10, 2002)
November 25, 2003 – 5:44 am
The company for which I used to work provides a free lunch for all its employees on Thursday. It’s one of the last dot-com niceties we had given the company’s woes over the past year, and it’s also a chance for management to make general announcements and give the grunts the low-down on the status [...]
Konichiwa, 2002! (originally published Tuesday, January 01, 2002)
November 25, 2003 – 5:40 am
That’s “hello” in Japanese, kids.
For your amusement, all my New Year’s doings from December 31, 1998 to last night, in reverse chronological order. (I’m working off a hangover by writing.)
December 31, 2001 - Toronto
This New Year’s Eve was different from the past few — for the first time since 1995, I stayed in town. It’s [...]
A spammer needs help from a time traveller! (originally published Thursday, December 13, 2001)
November 25, 2003 – 5:33 am
I just got the strangest mass-mailing I’ve ever seen:
Time Travelers PLEASE HELP !
message: If you are a time traveler or alien disguised as human and or have the technology to travel physically through time I need your help!
My life has been severely tampered with and cursed!!I have suffered tremendously and am now dying!
I need to [...]
Denouement for “Worst Date Ever”, part 2
October 16, 2003 – 11:47 am
(In case you missed it, here’s the link to part 1 of the denouement.)
What happened to Crabs
In the comments to one of the Worst Date Ever stories, Rick McGinnis guessed correctly that I remained friends with Crabs.
One Saturday night in the fall of 1999, Crabs and I met up at Buddies [...]
Worst Date Ever: The Denouement
October 15, 2003 – 3:13 pm
Some people wanted to know what happened to everyone involved in the Worst Date Ever stories.
(In case you haven’t read them yet, here are the various parts of the story…
Worst Date Ever, part 5
September 19, 2003 – 3:52 pm
At long last, the final date (plus a bonus one) from my worst dates ever…
You might want to reead the previous Worst Date Ever entries…
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3a
Part 3b
Part 4
Part 5
A week after the date that had ended in violence, tears and my demotion to the rank of “customer”, my cell [...]
Bring It On
July 23, 2003 – 6:03 pm
I’ve already received a couple of emails with a common theme, written in response to the Worst Date Ever postings. Their authors wonder how I haven’t become a bitter and resentful old man after the unfortunate incident with The Waitress, and more recently, with the New Girl.
I’ve mentioned before that for the most part, I [...]
Worst Date Ever, part 4
July 22, 2003 – 12:46 pm
Welcome to part 4! If you missed the previous entries:
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3a
Part 3b
This is my longest blog entry ever. You might want to get a beverage before reading it.
Episode IV: A NEW HOPE
(A vast sea of stars serves as the backdrop for the main title. War drums echo through the [...]
Worst Date Ever, part 3a
July 15, 2003 – 2:11 pm
(In case you haven’t read them yet, here are part 1 and part 2 of this story.)
Work has kept me busy, so this installment of the story is a little smaller than I’d like.
As for the actual story, I need to do just a little more mise en scene, so please [...]
