Today the family coffeemaker died. It was an old Black & Decker unit that I picked up from a surplus store (XS Cargo) about four years ago for about $30. We never really used the programming feature much as about a year ago it started to turn on by itself if we left it plugged […]
While summer hasn’t exactly arrived in Victoria yet, today is the longest day of the year around these parts. That’s doesn’t mean there are more hours in the day, but there are definitely more hours of daylight in the day to play with. Seeing as I’m handling the stay-at-home parent duties solo for the rest
The following is a guest post by Missie Peters. Missie is a public relations specialist, a poet and an improviser. She’s also a friend of mine. Oh, and she also promises not to delete your email. You can read more about her over at her website and follow her on Twitter. There are two kinds
The following is a guest post by André Benrubi. I had the pleasure of meeting André on a recent trip to Hamilton to visit family, and we had a great time over dinner chatting about productivity, technology and all things in between. He’s launched a new website called ProductivPad, and I asked him if he’d
I received my first Father’s Day gift a little over 7 years ago. Then I received another big one just shy of two years ago. Not a day goes by that I’m not grateful to have received those gifts. It is because of those gifts that I do what I do. Those gifts, of course,
I’m on the boat to Vancouver, getting ready for a few days over on the mainland. Tomorrow I’m speaking at Northern Voice 2012, which is a conference for bloggers and the like that is been going for a very long time. My talk is called Better Blogging Productivity: Making Time for The Write Words and
Last week in New York wasn’t all BlogWorld (now known as New Media Expo) for me. I wound up spending time wandering what I’d like to have thought was the better part of Manhattan (turns out it was only a very small, better part of Manhattan) and meeting up with folks I hadn’t seen in
The following is a guest post by Erin Feldman. Her passion is Write Right, her fledgling business. She provides writing coach and consulting primarily to businesses because she deplores the divide that often occurs between creative writing and business writing. Erin would like to insert some creativity and individuality into cultures where the status quo
The following is a guest post by Justin Watt. Justin is an web and iOS developer by day in beautiful Victoria, BC. When he’s not able to enjoy the beautiful outdoors, he enjoys writing on the web at his weblog and interviewing fellow iOS developers at ObjectiveSee. He’d love it if you connected with him on
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