Pay no attention to those garbled sleepness notes behind the curtain!
If you subscribe to this blog through my feed, then it looks like you just got a very rough version of my previous post. I’ve updated it since, and although I’d like to blame the free app that WordPress created for iPhone bloggers, I might also have to plead a little distracted sleeplessness on my […]
Maybe not today
My word! I’ve tried to keep up a daily blogging routine while I’ve been in the UK, and I’ve mainly managed to exceed that goal. I’ve even managed to get a good train of thought going, don’t you think? Today, however, a good chunk of work has chased me across the sea, and it’s come […]
There’s never a bad time to want to slap Sean Hannity
I keep an old folder in Evernote that’s full of random ideas for blog posts. Whenever I don’t know what to write about, I dig through that folder and see if anything grabs me. You never know when you might discover a fresh take on an old idea. There’s a note in that folder titled […]
Tags: blogging, Evernote, Fox News, Republicans, Sean Hannity
Posted in Creative Projects |
How I (often fail to) blog
I wrote a draft version of this post the other night, so I wouldn’t have to rush it. This morning, I read it with a fresh pair of eyes and gave it a quick rewrite. I don’t always take this approach when it comes to my writing; half the time, in fact, I end up […]
Tags: blogging, productivity
Posted in Creative Projects |
Thanks again for making this year’s Father’s Day Walk a great one!
One of the things I promised to do last week, and which I failed to do before putting this blog on hold for a minute, was give you a recap of the Father’s Day Walk I did with my daughter. It was a rainy day, but a great day, and I’m very grateful to everyone […]
Tags: AIDS, AIDS walk, blogging, father's day walk, fundraising, my kid, prostate cancer
Posted in Social Action |
Phasing it all back in
I’m a guy who likes to try and get a lot done in a day, and a good way to do that is to turn as many jobs as I can into habits. The disadvantage of this is you eventually come to cram your average day with one routine after another. Before long, you’re just […]
Tags: blogging, my job, my kid, my wife, productivity
Posted in Personal |
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
Posted in Creative Projects |
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
Posted in Friends and Family |
“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
Posted in Creative Projects |
Thank you for giving a despairing post a very uplifting response
Yesterday’s post about Tim Bosma and fatherhood got more visitors and traffic than anything else I’ve ever posted. Several hundred of you paid a visit, and a few of you were kind enough to share it. I really appreciate it. I mentioned how self-conscious I was about sharing these thoughts in the first place, and […]
Tags: blogging, my kid, my wife, parenting, Tim Bosma
Posted in Friends and Family |