and yet another guest post from alex. heeeeeere is alex: spring is a very exciting time for me because i have such a strong connection with it. my birthday is in april and so it’s always filled with the thrill of the coming year, a new chapter in my life and new beginnings. there is… Continue reading the emotion of spring
Category: general
taking care of business
after all these weeks of concentrating on family, i needed to find a way to focus back on work again. i remembered the creative planning tool that my friend and ex co-worker haedy used with me a number of times, and let me tell you, i had a lot of fun. creative planning is all… Continue reading taking care of business
the z list: are these my worst blog posts?
always intent on what the oracle tells me (that’s google analytics, a statistics software that analyses just about anything about a blog’s popularity), i was curious about which of my blog posts don’t seem to attract readers. so here is the list of the least-read blog posts. not only do people not seem to want… Continue reading the z list: are these my worst blog posts?
how to write a bad resume: a recipe
at a garden of nna mmoy (which i found through one the blogs on my blogroll, nickie’s nook), i came across monday missions – ideas on how to present blog postings for the next few mondays. the mission for today is to present the blog posting as a recipe. so here it is, something that… Continue reading how to write a bad resume: a recipe
the consequences of our actions
i just listened to an interview with charles norton, manager of the vice fund, a stock fund that invests in alcohol, tobacco, gambling and the defence industry. he pronounced the happy news that while people in the western world quit smoking left, right and centre, the tobacco industry is doing very well, thank you very… Continue reading the consequences of our actions
make it worth your while
when is something worth doing? and how often do you do things that are worth your while? how often do you squander away your day? this is something david seah, a freelance IT professional, asked himself, and he came up with this great system. there’s really little i can add, other than kudos to david.… Continue reading make it worth your while
free lunch!
well, almost free. if you submit a comment in the next week or so, you may win a free lunch. you see, i love statistics. i love to see numbers grow and change and make a potpourri of interesting patterns. and if you contribute to this obsession, you may get a free lunch.
our bodies, our environment
thanks to changeeverything, i feel inspired to bring my environmental consciousness a little more up to date. i dug around in the environmental column i used to write for the the review, a small vancouver newspaper, from about 1988-1991 and found an article that seems just as fresh today as in april of 1990. (it… Continue reading our bodies, our environment
brains and hypertext: jumping from gratitude to coco chanel
after publishing my last newsletter, i received this amusing email from my friend rudolf penner. After following your links over the “There but for the grace of God go I” quote and finding out that the fellow was burnt at the stake, I ended up at Coco Chanel’s write-up in Wikipedia. I know, you’re wondering… Continue reading brains and hypertext: jumping from gratitude to coco chanel
one year of blogging!
today it’s exactly a year ago that i first started blogging. it’s been an interesting 108,000 words to write (that’s how many words i estimate have accumulated here so far). one of the most surprising things that happened is that