It's a busy heatwavy week over here. As the dog alternates between sleeping and panting and I sit very slowly wishing I could do the same (everything is done very slowly during a heatwave, see), I marvel a bit about how much I'm getting done.
First, here's a link to the interview I did with...
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In just around five hours, Mary Beth Temple of Getting Loopy is going to have me on her show—tune in at 6pm Pacific/9pm Eastern. I've been a guest before, so I know to look forward to hilarious conversation and a generally great time. She's let me know she wants to talk about the new...
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I went to a meeting in Gastown today. I love being in busy parts of the city during the day. It makes me happy. Also, all the stimulation makes my brain spin faster, which overall leads to more and better ideas. So, yay.
As I walked around I noticed things I love.
I love the alleyways...
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An unexpected and thoroughly delightful side effect of quitting my job last year is that right after I did it I managed to get know some incredibly cool people whose work I'd admired from afar for a long time. I really don't know how or why it happened; maybe cutting myself free somehow opened...
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This last week has been all about looks around here. Or, I suppose it's been more about a thoughtful attention to aesthetics. Yeah, that's right.
First there was my birthday last week, with the most gorgeous, thoughtful present I've ever received. The man outdid himself. As we continue to decorate our front rooms after the...
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Over on the Booknet Canada blog, Morgan Cowie wrote about subscription models in online news and how they don't work in part because they stifle the sharing and conversation that make the Web go 'round. She wonders if similar models would work for ebooks, which are very different from news articles*.
But I'm not really...
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For the second day in a row, I woke up this morning to discover I'm 33 years old.
Yesterday, my first day at 33, I woke up at 6AM like a kid on Christmas morning if that kid happens to celebrate Christmas and also happens to be really jacked up about what the day might...
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