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Road Trip Diary, Part 1

November 30, 2009

Damir at the wheel, looking for an opening on the Don Valley Parkway.
I’m blogging and tweeting from the road today! My coworker Damir Bersinic (IT Pro Evangelist) and I have been loaned a Ford Flex equipped with Microsoft’s Sync and I’ve got my laptop hooked up to a Rogers internet stick. The photo above was [...]

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Headline of the Day: “Police Seek Serial Groin-Kicker”

October 30, 2009
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There’s a woman in or around the area of Langley, British Columbia who’s going around kicking men in the groin. One was hurt so badly that one of his testicles had to be removed.
This case will probably spark two types of conversations, editorials and online commentary:

One will be some persecution fantasy among men [...]

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Very True

October 30, 2009
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Here’s a piece by the artist known as 9 0 0 0 that I rather like:

You can see the original (and more) in 9 0 0 0’s Flickr photostream.

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One Year Ago Today…

October 1, 2009
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…I was looking for a job, what with my old one having been rendered defunct by the econopocalypse (mind you, in retrospect, that was one of the luckiest breaks of my career).
Here I am in “corporate drag”, dressed up for an interview with John Oxley, who would become my manager three weeks later:

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Slice of Life: Striking the “Charlie’s Angels” Pose with Netbooks

September 14, 2009
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Yesterday, while setting up for the TechDays conference at the Vancouver Convention Centre, my co-workers Rick Claus (pictured below on the left with the red netbook) and Rodney Buike (pictured below on the right with the blue netbook) and I couldn’t resist playing around with the Dell netbooks that we were using to do PowerPoint [...]

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Toronto Coffee and Code: This Afternoon at The Roastery

August 14, 2009
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Today’s Toronto Coffee and Code – and by “today”, I mean “Friday, August 14th” – will take place at The Roastery (401 Richmond West, just east of Spadina) from noon until 6 p.m.. Come on down, shoot the breeze, ask questions, get help with Microsoft developer tools and tech, hang out!

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XKCD’s Twist on Those “Dos Equis” Ads

August 14, 2009
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I love the webcomic XKCD’s twist on those Dos Equis “Most Interesting Man in the World” ads (which I also love):
Click the comic to see it on its original page.

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On Second Thought, THIS is the Sign of the Day

August 3, 2009

Found via Certified Bullshit Technician.

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John Udell DemoCamp / Science 2.0 Double-Header in Toronto Next Week

July 22, 2009

This article also appears in Canadian Developer Connection and Global Nerdy.

Jon Udell – the developer, information architect, author who wrote about social software before we started calling it that, blogger and Senior Tech Evangelist at Microsoft – will be in Toronto next week and he’ll be at a couple of events that I’m attending.
DemoCamp Toronto [...]

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You’re Doing It Wrong

July 22, 2009

Photo courtesy of Will from Dork Shelf. Click the photo to see it at full size.

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Coffee and Codes This Week: Guelph and Toronto

July 20, 2009

One quick announcement: I’m going to be at a couple of Coffee and Code events this week:

I’ll be at tomorrow’s (Tuesday, July 21st) Guelph Coffee and Code, which takes place at the Albion Hotel…
and at the Toronto Coffee and Code on Friday, July 24th at the Dark Horse Cafe on Spadina.

Be there!

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The Unofficial FutureRuby Guide to Toronto, Part 2: The FutureRuby Venues

July 5, 2009

Welcome to the second installment of The Unofficial FutureRuby Guide to Toronto! This is a series of articles aimed at showing out-of-town attendees of the upcoming FutureRuby conference around our fine city. (It’s useful even if you’re not planning on attending the conference).
In case you missed the previous installment, it’s here:

What’s That Smell?

You might [...]

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Happy Canada Day!

July 1, 2009

Creative Commons picture courtesy of Rene Erhardt.
Happy Canada Day! Have a safe and fun holiday, and I’ll see you tomorrow!

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Living in the “Hooray!” Zone

June 24, 2009

Yes, the demands and schedule of my job as Sith Lord at Microsoft have kept me quite busy, but it doesn’t matter because I live in the “Hooray!” zone, as shown in the Venn diagram below:

For more information, see the LifeHacker article titled The Road to Happiness in Your Work Lies in the Hooray! Zone.

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Vegans and Carnivores

June 23, 2009

This photo from Passive-Aggressive Notes made me laugh out loud:

When it comes to vegans and vegetarians, while I get along with them just fine, I’ve got to side with chef Anthony Bourdain:
Vegetarians, and their Hezbollah-like splinter faction, the vegans, are a persistent irritant to any chef worth a damn. To me, life without veal stock, [...]

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