Just two days to go until the Father’s Day Walk against prostate cancer!
Morning, all! This is just a quick reminder that my daughter and I are headed down to the lakeshore this Sunday to do the Father’s Day Walk against prostate cancer. Many thanks to those of you who have sponsored or supported us so far! I’ve set a fundraising goal of $250.00, and thanks to very generous [...]
Tags: AIDS walk, father's day walk, fundraising, my kid, my wife, prostate cancer
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Newstalk 1010, whose schedule is 96% male, celebrates a “uterus free” executive committee
Late last night, blogger and White Ribbon team member Jeff Perera brought my attention to a ridiculous tweet by the folks at Newstalk 1010. “She ticked off the Fords,” the tweet read. “Now the Executive Committee is uterus free!” It was a stupid thing to say, and it would be easy to call Newstalk a [...]
Tags: Adrienne Batra, Doug Ford, Gail Vaz-Oxlade, Jaye Robinson, Newstalk 1010, Pay Chen, politics, Rob Ford, Toronto
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Varial is celebrating ten years of web hosting by offering new customers 50% off for up to three years
The good people at Varial Technologies, who host this website and others in my portfolio, celebrated their tenth anniversary on the first of this month. To mark the occasion, they’re currently offering new hosting clients a 50% discount on their already competitive rates, for a period of up to three years. Use the coupon code [...]
Tags: affiliate links, blogging, deals, Varial
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My daughter and I are doing the Father’s Day Walk against prostate cancer (and we need your support)
I had a lot of fun doing the AIDS Walk with my daughter back in September, and I’ve been looking forward to another opportunity to put her in a stroller for a good cause. That opportunity will finally come on Sunday, when we do the Father’s Day Walk against prostate cancer. I’ve set a rather modest [...]
Tags: AIDS walk, father's day walk, fundraising, my kid, my wife, prostate cancer
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Happy birthday, Jon!
Speaking of important dates, my brother Jon is celebrating his thirty-second birthday today. Join me in wishing him a great one, won’t you? All the best today, Jon. If the year ahead is anything like the year you’ve just enjoyed, it’s going to be a great one. I can’t wait to watch it unfold!
Tags: my brother, my wife
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Here’s an anniversary my wife and I both forgot
Four years ago tonight, I asked my wife to marry me. She said yes, thank God, and now we’ve got a kid and a mortgage. Which is probably why we’d both forgotten the significance of today until my mother pointed it out this morning. Well, what do you want from me? I got two out [...]
Tags: my kid, my mother, my wife
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Who do you work for?
I’m lucky enough to have a job that allows me to work from home when I need to. On a day like today, when my kid is running a temperature and there’s a good chance the daycare will ask us to come and pick her up, it’s nice to be able to work at the [...]
Tags: my job, my kid
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A week of milestones (and not much blogging)
I neglected this blog in a big way last week. Work was demanding, my kid was temperamental, and I was generally pretty tired. Everything that wasn’t vital went on the shelf for a minute, just so I could focus on the most important things. My wife was at the centre of two of those things. [...]
Tags: blogging, my job, my kid, my wife
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Let me talk to the men for a second about this whole “white knight” thing
Now, most of you guys are good people. You don’t need the “white knight” thing explained to you, and you don’t need to be told not to call some dude a white knight because he sided with some woman and called you on your sexism. I’m not trying to tell you something you already know, [...]
Tags: feminism, internet fights, sexism, white knights
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“Your audience is brilliant”
Chris Brogan wrote a book back in 2010 called Social Media 101, and it’s full of best practices and bite-sized ideas for business and creative types alike. Consider, for example, this piece of advice about blogging: “Your audience is brilliant. You sometimes know something they don’t. But treat them as though they are masterful and [...]
Tags: blogging, Chris Brogan, social media
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