It Happened to Me

Ain’t No Rest for the Wicked

One of the songs in my MP3 collection that’s on heavy rotation is Cage the Elephant’s Beck-ish, slide-guitar southern-rock-y ode…

15 years ago

A Last Minute Sweetup (Saturday, June 26th)

Yes, the G20 conference with the protests that go along with it have turned downtown Toronto into “Torontonomo Bay” and…

15 years ago

It’s One of the Perks of the Job

The best antidote for a day full of meetings in boardrooms in a suburban office park is to finish it…

15 years ago

PressHarbor Rocks!

Here’s a quick unsolicited endorsement for PressHarbor, the WordPress hosting company where my blogs The Adventures of Accordion Guy in…

15 years ago

Getting Paid to Work for Ballmer is Pretty Nice

Me and Ballmer at the Microsoft Town Hall in Toronto, October 2009. David “DHH” Heinemeier Hansson recently wrote in the…

15 years ago

Catching Cory Doctorow’s “For the Win” Book Launch Tonight

Once again, my friend and former co-worker (I worked at his startup, OpenCola, during “The Bubble”) Cory Doctorow is holding…

15 years ago

Dinner at Au Pied de Cochon

There are a couple of restaurants with the name Au Pied de Cochon, which translates as “with the pig’s foot”.…

15 years ago

Taking Montreal’s Bixi for a Spin

What is Bixi? If you walk around downtown Montreal, you’ll eventually run into one of these: It’s one of 400…

15 years ago

My Photos from Make Web Not War 2010

I’ll post a more detailed write-up of the Make Web Not War conference later, but I thought that those of…

15 years ago

I’m in Montreal This Week

I’m headed to Montreal this week, where Microsoft Canada’s Developer and Platform Evangelism team (of which I am a member)…

15 years ago