It Happened to Me

Warming Up for PDC2008

I leave for Los Angeles tomorrow to attend Microsoft's Professional Developer Conference (a.k.a. PDC2008). It's typically the conference where Microsoft…

16 years ago

Licence Plate of the Day

I saw this on Queen Street West yesterday. Maybe "GULLIBLE" was already taken:

16 years ago

Hail Satan! (or: Day 1 at Microsoft)

Many cultures have "big players" that form part of their collective demonology, symbols that are reviled, yet envied at the…

16 years ago

And Now, the New Job

An apt metaphor for the new job. As promised, I am announcing my new job today. But not here: you'll…

16 years ago

Changes are Coming

The new look on my tech blog, Global Nerdy, is just the tip of the iceberg. Big changes are in…

16 years ago

Terminated, Part 8: The Layoff Weight Loss Plan

Since getting laid off, I've been getting a little less exercise. My bike commute to work, a 14-kilometre (8.7 mile)…

16 years ago

Terminated, Part 3: Need Suggestions for Where to Have the Last Supper

[This article also appears in Global Nerdy.] Because I was laid off and not fired from my former place of…

16 years ago

Terminated, Part 2: How I’ll Ride Out the Layoff and the Credit Crunch: Friends

[This article was also published in Global Nerdy.] Technology, media and pop culture writer Douglas Rushkoff, who's got a guest…

16 years ago

2 Million Pageviews!

Yearly statistics for the Accordion Guy blog, courtesy of StatCounter. StatCounter says that sometime within the half-hour before I wrote…

16 years ago

The Fortune Cookie Wasn’t Kidding

I found this while cleaning out receipts from my wallet. It's from my last fortune cookie:

16 years ago