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It Happened to Me Toronto (a.k.a. Accordion City)

Interviewed by BlogTO

In today’s BlogTO, one of the blogs that covers happenings in Accordion City, there’s an interview featuring Yours Truly. An exceprt:

Choose someone, living or dead, to write your biography. Why did you make that choice?


Michael Chabon, because nobody captures romance and geekdom in the same

breath like he can. It would be a graphic novel, and illustrated by

Chris “Achewood” Onstad, Jeffery “Wigu” Rowland, Jeph “Questionable

Content” Jacques, John “Scary Go Round” Allison and Mike “Death to the

Extremist” Zole.

Zole would illustrate the love scenes.

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Accordion, Instrument of the Gods It Happened to Me Toronto (a.k.a. Accordion City)

One Busy Thursday (Preview)

I’m too tired to do a writeup now, but I have some photos of what

Thursday looked like. There are some previews below, but I suggest you

check out the larger photos in the photo album or as a slideshow. Full details to follow.

7:30 a.m.: Nathan Phillips Square

Photo: Team Tucows on their bikes just before the Ride for Kids.

Click the photo to see the slideshow.

Photo: Tucows 'squishy cow' in Liam's bike bag.

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9:00 a.m.: Watching the CEO’s presentation

Photo: Elliot Noss talking at the Tucows all-hands strategic planning meeting.

Click the photo to see the slideshow.

3:15 p.m.: PH34R MY M4D D3V-R3L4710NS 5K1LLZ

Photo: Joey deVilla works at his desk at Tucows.

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7:30 p.m.: Shooting a “bumper” segment for G4 Tech TV with Amber and Leo

Photo: Amber MacArthur, Leo Laporte and Joey deVilla filming a bumper promo for the G4 TechTV show 'Call for Help'.
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Photo: Amber MacArthur, Leo Laporte and Joey deVilla filming a bumper promo for the G4 TechTV show 'Call for Help'.

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It Happened to Me Music

Busybusybusy / Music for You!

They’ve got me doing a lot of computer-y stuff on the internets today…

Photo: Computer programming, as depicted in 'Space: 1999'.

…but that doesn’t mean you’re going to leave this site empty-handed.

I give you Hayseed Dixie (the band known for doing AC/DC covers in a

bluegrass style) doing their special countrified version of The

Darkness’ I Believe in a Thing Called Love! [4.7MB MP3]

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Accordion, Instrument of the Gods It Happened to Me Music

Because This Blog’s Been a Little Lacking in Shameless Self-Promotion Lately

Photo: Joey deVilla plays accordion at the OPML meetup on Tuesday, August 2, 2005.

Click the picture to see the video (26MB,

QuickTime)

Brian McKechnie pointed me to this video [26MB,

QuickTime] that he shot of my Baby One More Time performance at the end of

last week’s OPML

meetup.

Thanks, Brian!

The accordion and I will be at Thursday’s TechTV

Meetup, which takes place at No Regrets, deep in “the dingy alleys of Toronto’s Porn

District”, Liberty Village

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It Happened to Me

And Speaking of Blogrolling.com…

Graphic: Blogrolling.com logo.

I’ve been working on some Blogrolling.com-related projects that should see the light of day soon. Can’t talk about them yet, but will be able to soon

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It Happened to Me

Photos from the OPML Meetup

Boss Ross took a number of photos for his moblog, including this one of the signs I made up:

Photo: OPML Meetup poster and Squishy Cow.

By the way, that little foam rubber cow in the upper right-hand corner of the pic is Tucows‘ most-coveted piece of swag: The Squishy Cow! We handed some out after the meeting last night.

Amber MacArthur moblogged some photos too, including Ross playing the part of “Tattoo”:

Photo: Ross at the Tucows front entrance.

“The markup language! The markup language!”

…while I was the suave and tanned “Mr. Roarke”:

Photo: Joey plays accordion in the Tucows boardroom.

“Smiles, everyone! Smiles!”

(If the above pop culture references mean nothing to you, you’re either too damned young or I’m too damned old.)

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It Happened to Me

My Rule for Organizing Professional Gatherings

It’s quite simple:

WWWD? (What Would Wendy Do?)

Photo: Wendy!

She’s been doing this sort of thing for much longer than I have, and

for much bigger shindigs. Luckily for me, I was paying attention.