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Happy Pride Weekend, Toronto!

Pride month zima

Although LGBT Pride Month has ended and today’s the last day of Pride Toronto, I wanted to give a shout-out to everyone there. I thought I’d do it with this photo from Certified Bullshit Technician; that blog always has a line on the good stuff.

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Org Charts of the Big Tech Companies (Plus an Enhancement)

This set of satirical, funny-because-it’s-true org charts for big tech companies has been doing the internet rounds for the past couple of days. (The original version, by “Manu”, is here.) It shows the chain of command at Amazon, Google, Facebook, my former company Microsoft, Apple and Oracle. Take a look:

Org charts tech companies

This weekend, someone showed me the org charts and asked me how true-to-life the Microsoft org chart was. I told him “It’s a satire piece, and as such, they’re going to take some liberties with the truth for comic effect. I’d have drawn it like this…”

Microsoft org chart

I kid because I love.

This article also appears in Global Nerdy.

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Lost Moments #1: My Wiener is Smokin’

Joeys smokin wiener

This is the first in a series of blog entries that have been sitting in my “Drafts” folder for far too long. They’re things I meant to post sometime in the past few months and never got around to until now. Enjoy!

Here’s a photo that was taken a month back, at a hay ride and cookout on Wolfe Island. I was in Kingston for the 20th anniversary of my graduating class — Applied Science ’91 — at Crazy Go Nuts University.

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Happy Canada Day!

Like a canadian boss

Okay, now I’m ready to hit the streets.

This article also appears in Global Nerdy.