Design & Content Conference: A sort-of review
So let’s get this out of the way up front: I have a lot of bias regarding the Design & Content Conference: - My company was a sponsor of the...
Marvel Unlimited & digital media ownership: some thoughts
I've been buying comics weekly since I've had an allowance - about 30 years or so. 98% of them are Marvel comics - and in particular the X-men and the...
Additive vs Subtractive rights
I’ve been thinking a lot about individual rights and progressive policies lately. The rise of the Government-as-snooping-boogeyman with all the Snowden...
O Vancouver, City that I love
Vancouver has a hard, brittle beauty. Walk down any street in Vancouver. We are a city of nondescript streets, where very few blocks possess a beauty of...
Just-in-time disk
Just-in-time Disks, wherein I complain, yet again, about the state of cloud storage services, cross-device sync and ownership of generated content.
The restaurant-drink conundrum
I'm working on myself. My fitness, my health, my size. I'm running, I'm cycling & walking more. I'm watching what I eat. Part of this, and a hard one...
Thinking about Payments
I've been doing a lot of thinking about how awkward, broken and balkanized payments are of late - I went as far as to build a few prototypes of slightly...
I can't take a compliment
Tonight, Steve complimented me on twitter: You know who’s great? @Stv is and not just because his name rules. — Steve Fisher (@hellofisher) July 11, 2014...
Raising an Emotionally-aware child
Kellan is most definitely in the throws of The Terrible Threes. I don't know where this "terrible twos" business came from - because, for both my kids,...
Improving Untappd's rating system
I really like Untappd. It's a great app, has lots of uses, and, for me, adds to my beer-consumption experience. The team behind it has done a great job,...