Frank Broughton and Bill Brewster have done some of the best writing on the craft of DJing that you’re ever likely to read. Their 1999 book Last Night a DJ Saved My Life is an indispensable history of DJing, but for those who want to learn the craft, their 2003 follow-up How to DJ Right […]

I don’t want to get into the gross, disgusting details of the sickness that kept me in bed yesterday, but it meant I had to miss a show I’d been looking forward to seeing on Sunday night. I was halfway there, to tell you the truth, when I realized it was time to turn back […]

I took an entire day off yesterday, and I haven’t really done that in a long time. I’ve had sick days and breaks lately, but this was different. I spent the bulk of the day in bed, and even when I was awake, I accomplished nothing. Today, I’m back at work. I’ve gotten it out […]

We’ve all had our share of bad customer service experiences, and we all know the small consolation of complaining about those experiences to our friends and loved ones. We’re not often as eager to talk about the times when everything goes right, and since I had a good experience of my own this week, I’d […]

I don’t sleep late anymore. It just doesn’t happen. If my alarm doesn’t go off, and my wife doesn’t wake me when she gets up, my kid will. It’s a good system, and I usually don’t need it anyway. I like my early mornings, and I only tend to grab a little extra sleep when […]

Instead of heading to the office after dropping my kid off at daycare, I headed back home to set up shop at the kitchen table. My wife, meanwhile, hasn’t left the house at all. I’ve spent the morning working, and she’s spent it on the couch. My wife hasn’t had a proper sick day since […]

This evening, the federal government will vote on an NDP motion to demand that Canada not ratify an agreement called the Canada-China FIPA. The Green Party wants your help, today, to put this agreement on hold until we’ve had an actual public discussion about it. “On September 9th,” Elizabeth May told her mailing list, “Prime […]

If you’re like me, then you like to keep your phone handy, but not because you want to stay reachable. I use my phone to capture notes and ideas during the day (and to snap a quick photo of my kid whenever she’s doing something cute), so I don’t like to be without it. But […]

Weekends are great when you’re a parent with a day job, because you get to spend a lot more time with your kid than you do on weekdays. And they’re much more exhausting  than weekdays are, for pretty much the very same reason. I got up at with my kid at 7:00 AM this morning. […]

These days, whenever I head out to spin live, I take a digital recorder with me. Like the sessions I’ve been recording at home, these recordings give me a better sense of what’s working when I play live, and what could be better. The recording I’m listening to now, though, is a bit of a […]