Mallory plays ‘Sailing’
Not the Christopher Cross version. Note to self: iPhone videos work better in horizontal mode. Note also to self: say something about those bloody cops in UC Davis. Will they…
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Yeah, see? OC Transpo driver had a story too
So this OC Transpo driver is recorded yelling at a passenger to shut up. The video goes on YouTube and a short time later he’s fired. There’s much outrage focussed…
Supreme Court orders Canada Post to pay 20 years of pay equity wage top ups
It took the Supreme Court of Canada all of 20 minutes to decide that it was time for Canada Post to pony up after 28 years of trying to avoid…
Bullet lists are good. But don’t believe me – look at this
Such a simple thing, really, a bullet list. A visual cue in the text to indicate an organized collection of symmetrically arranged bits of information. Ideas organized like merchandise on…
Rethinking content strategy – I don’t do design like I used to either
In about 2000 I had this crazy idea that if you made a simple cut paste and post system and hosted it on the web server, anyone could be a…
Do, do re mi fa so
Mallory had her piano lesson this evening. She's quite impressive, I think. But then I would say that. She's very good at the sequences of notes and moving her fingers…
Capitalism has a lot of staying power
I was thinking about this as I went about my one per cent Sunday, putting up shelves in the laundry room, raking leaves, trimming back the grape vines and disposing…
Mallory read bedtime stories to me tonight
That was pretty exciting. For some reason Mallory picked out two much younger books for stories tonight. I figure it's because she's bored with her usual favourites. They were a…
Remembrance Day: comparative poetry
The poppies, the poems. I've gotten yelled at before about this, and this topic very rapidly leads to a proof of Godwin's Law, but here goes anyway.
Jim Flaherty pushes back deadline for balanced budget
Gosh. Never saw that coming. He could beat his earlier date if only he'd rescind those corporate tax cuts and use the money to put people back to work instead.
Mallory’s first loose tooth is in the house
Well, actually it's in her mouth, still. But I'm trying to be... uh... hip. She was tired this morning, sleeping in to 7:10. We crawled downstairs and after starting in…
Air Canada arbitration: so what was that decision all about?
Air Canada was happy. The union was not. But then, this is Lisa Raitt's shop, we could have predicted that, right? So here is my understanding - as an outsider…
That whole gain an hour of sleep thing? Not for kids
Whoever thought of that as an upside for changing the clocks in fall did not have a young child. I carefully set the clock in our room back an hour…
Lemon of a battery
So the first battery I got with my laptop lasted six years, more than twice the number of anticipated charge cycles. The one I got to replace it in February…
Dear commerical media quit using “union boss” to describe our leaders
I know y'all are into brevity and everything. I'm with you. But is the pain of adding three extra characters to your titles and content really so onerous that you…
Social media: lessons from Chapstick
I am late to the party on this one, but I thought I'd flag it. The Globe writing on Facebook. Not usually where I go for info on social media…
Writing web content for union members: is it public voice or intimate voice?
Most of the how-to manuals on web writing focus on writing in public voice. They presume that the words will be the product of many pairs of eyes, the writer…
NGO looking for a home? Consider Under One Roof
Amongst civil society groups, aka NGOs, aka social change organizations, advocacy organizations etc, Ottawa has a rich tradition of architectural folklore. Buildings where marginally funded, maximally mandated organizations out to…
Halloween: better than Christmas
Genuine excitement today as Mallory and I bounded home from daycare to gird for Halloween. Oh the candy. But first, there was so much to do. The candles, the candy,…