YYZ
Oct.03.11 | No Comments
Like most Canadians I harbour a special hate for Toronto’s Peason Airport (YYZ). It’s a reminder of everything wrong with Canada’s airline system: dull, ugly, designed for the convenience airlines rather than passengers. The airport is often a perfunctory midway point, a No Man’s Land between where you were and where you are going marked [...]
Continue reading »Steve Jobs Resigns: How Do You Like Them Apples?
Aug.25.11 | No Comments
Steve Jobs resigns from Apple: everybody panic! Or not.
Continue reading »Drink Like a Goddamn Man: The Gentleman’s Margarita
Jul.21.11 | 2 Comments
A margarita doesn’t have to be served as slush from a 2′ long plastic penis. The Gentleman’s Margarita brings decorum back to this crisp summer drink.
Continue reading »Happy 6th Birthday
Jun.25.11 | 2 Comments
Dear Malcolm, You turn today six today. Six is a number that amazes me. Six years ago I could carry you in one arm and you looked at me with eyes that could barely focus. Now I can only lift you if you cooperate and you can read these words I write by yourself. In [...]
Continue reading »An Ode to the Shower Beer
Jun.17.11 | 7 Comments
A shower beer is the best thing ever.
Continue reading »Stranger no.54
Feb.08.11 | No Comments
Kim Usan has been photographing strangers in Ottawa for a bit over a year now. I had never met Kim—or her husband & lighting assistant D’arcy—until our Saturday shoot at the GCTC Theatre in Hintonburg so I suppose I qualify well enough as her 54th stranger. As an avid portrait photographer myself it always feels [...]
Continue reading »Reflections on Ottawa’s Technology Community
Jan.11.11 | No Comments
I talk on CBC Radio 1′s Ottawa Morning about my 15 years in Ottawa’s technology sector, what has changed, and what hasn’t.
Continue reading »Ted Williams: From Blog to Riches
Jan.10.11 | No Comments
The story of Ted Williams, a homeless man with an amazing radio voice, highlights how social media and the Internet can make change happen for better or worse.
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