Podcast Radio Station
One of my favourite CBC shows is Podcast Playlist, which is a weekly, curated show where Matt Galloway & Lindsay Michael sample a set of podcasts,...
My 5 Favourite songs about New York City
These aren't "the best", just ones I like. And I'm pretty-much ignoring hip-hop/soul here, because that is a real void in my musical knowledge. The...
My leadership principles
I've evolved my approaches to team-leadership over the years (as to be expected), but I'm not sure I've ever sought to explicitly write down a These...
Community Amenities in Vancouver
I've been peripherally involved with the use & planning of Community Amenities in Vancouver for a long time - by being politically involved with the...
Quick Thoughts on the new MacBook Pro (with touchbar)
After 5 years of service, my trusty, much-loved iMac died suddenly (and of course, in the middle of trying to meet a crazy deadline). We also had a 5-year...
2016 — my year in books
I made a New Years’ resolution in 2016 to diversify my reading — not by genre, but by author. I had realized that in 2015, of 26 books that I read, 22...
Quick thoughts after a morning spent driving on the North Shore.
I spent this morning driving, roughly: Lions Gate to Mount Seymour on highway/Mt. Seymour Parkway. Mount Seymour to Deep Cove on Mt. Seymour Parkway Deep...
Stray thoughts about this week’s Computer Announcements
On Wednesday, Microsoft the Surface Studio: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzMLA8YIgG0 Immediately followed by Apple announcing the Macbook Pro (2016)...
MacOS Sierra: Solving an external drive mounted as read-only after install
When I installed MacOS Sierra, my trusty Drobo, who’d been flawless through so many OS updates, suddenly stopped working. Or, more particularly, suddenly...
Post-Democracy — Truthy-ism & Disruptacy
So I have this idea. An idea that’s admittedly an off-the-top-of-my-head, not-well-thought-out idea, but none the less, one I wanted to write it out to...