Since getting laid off, I've been getting a little less exercise. My bike commute to work, a 14-kilometre (8.7 mile)…
[This article also appears in Global Nerdy.] Because I was laid off and not fired from my former place of…
[This article was also published in Global Nerdy.] Technology, media and pop culture writer Douglas Rushkoff, who's got a guest…
Yearly statistics for the Accordion Guy blog, courtesy of StatCounter. StatCounter says that sometime within the half-hour before I wrote…
I found this while cleaning out receipts from my wallet. It's from my last fortune cookie:
[This article also appears in my tech blog, Global Nerdy.] Introduction Hello. My name is Joey deVilla, and I am…
Accordion Death Squad Brian Jepson forwarded me an email with the preface "Couldn't let this sit in my inbox without…
Neal Stephenson's Anathem A large, thick bubble-wrap-padded envelope arrived for me at the b5media office. As you can see in…
Last night's storm, in which the sky turned a greenish colour, was a pretty impressive if brief one. The wall…
This article also appears in Global Nerdy. Clay Shirky: Gin, Television, and Social Surplus If you're a reader of the…