It Happened to Me

It’s a “Portal” Day Today

Today is all about virtual meetings; I’m spending most of it sitting at the home office with a headset microphone…

15 years ago

One Thing I Love About My Job

…is that sometimes, what with all the things that need to be done, all the learning that goes along with…

15 years ago

Montreal Bound

Photo by Tom Purves. I’m boarding a Porter flight bound for Montreal, where I’ll be attending CUSEC (Canadian University Software…

15 years ago

My Presentation at CUSEC 2009: “Squeezeboxes, Start-Ups and Selling Out: A Tech Evangelist’s Story”

Microsoft was a sponsor of CUSEC last year – that’s Canadian University Software Engineering Conference, the premier conference on building…

15 years ago

Marvellous Edibles’ Last Night

Marvellous Edibles, one of my favourite restaurants in Accordion City, is open tonight for one last time. Owners Jens (who’s…

15 years ago

The Birthday Accordion Jam at Caplansky’s

The Accordion Jam With all the travelling I’d been doing in the fall, my birthday party back on November 7th…

15 years ago

“Accordion Guy” and “Global Nerdy” Stats for 2009

“You can’t improve what you don’t measure” is a maxim for many fields. Engineers, businesspeople and athletes may all have…

15 years ago

My Best Christmas Story

Whenever I’m asked “What’s your best Christmas story?” I always tell this one. I posted it on this blog back…

15 years ago

The “Keyboard Cat Song” on Accordion

For no reason other than kicks, here’s a video shot earlier this summer – me playing the “Keyboard Cat song”…

15 years ago

Scenes from TechDays Winnipeg

It’s hard to believe, but the seven-city cross-Canada tour known as TechDays 2009 is over. We had the last one…

15 years ago