Remember the Milk

, October 20, 2010

I’ve started using Remember the Milk to keep track of my tasks and “to do” lists. I’ve taken my cues from an old post on their blog about configuring it for use with GTD, and although I’ve got an awful lot of data left to carry over, it looks as if it’s going to be […]


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Today, Phil Western and Ministry’s good news is my bank account’s bad news

, October 20, 2010

I’d like to open up this post by pledging not to become one of those awful bloggers who only ever talks about mobile phones and social media and what not. Yes, I recently bought an iPhone, and yes, I’ve mentioned it rather frequently since. But I hope you’ll believe me when I tell you that […]


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Link of the Day: Man vs. Clown!

, October 20, 2010

Peter Lynn is a friend that I got to know a number of years ago through Golden Words, the campus humour paper at our alma mater. He’s maintained a blog called Man vs Clown! for years, and like his work at GW, it’s funny stuff indeed. Like many people whose blogs have been around for […]


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Currently enjoying “Totally Together” by Meat Beat Manifesto

, October 19, 2010

At a recent edition of Everyone’s a DJ, which wound up being one of my favourites because/despite a number of things that I’ll tell you about later, I got to have a great conversation with a skilled young DJ named Mr. Sperken. He was big fan of Z-Trip, quite rightly, so I asked if he’d […]


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Immigration is bad, multiculturalism is doomed to fail, and Canada is basically Germany

, October 19, 2010

German Chancellor Angela Merkel doesn’t tend to get a lot of press in North America. In fact, if you only know her as the woman that Bush happened to grope on camera at the 2006 G8 summit, then I’m not going to hold it against you. But the eyes of the world are on her […]


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Link of the Day: Dust City

, October 19, 2010

Kate and I went down to Clinton’s last night to check out the launch of Dust City, the newest young adult novel by local author Robert Paul Weston. In addition to being an accomplished writer and teacher, Rob is also a friend of Kate’s, having taught one of her previous writing classes. It was a […]


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I finally caved and got a damned iPhone

, October 18, 2010

Today on my lunch hour, I went down to the local Telus kiosk and hooked myself up with a new iPhone. It’s the first new phone I’ve bought in about five years, and it’s a serious understatement to say that phones have gotten a little more advanced in that time. There’s a bit of a […]


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Are you happy now?

, October 18, 2010

“How are you?” the cashier at Shoppers Drug Mart asked the guy ahead of me in line who was buying nothing but two twenty-four packs of toilet paper. “I’m happy now,” he said. “I’m happy now.”


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Link of the Day: Together is Amazing

, October 18, 2010

Kate and I got back from Vancouver late last night, ordered a pizza, did some laundry and went to bed. Now it’s Monday morning, and we’re both getting ready to head back to work and jump back into the usual routine. For me, that includes getting back into posting after a brief hiatus, and I […]


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One not-Ford drops out as another not-Ford takes the lead!

, October 14, 2010

Look, I know I promised that I wasn’t going to post anything during my honeymoon. But in my defense, it was my wife who pointed out that Rocco Rossi has officially withdrawn from the mayoral race. And to hear that his announcement followed the release of an Ipsos Reid poll that showed that Smitherman has […]


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