Small Steps Towards Personal Goals
It’s one of the few memories I retain of the second half of my Grade 5 year; sitting on the floor as the teacher reads some boring book about habits. The teacher talked about difficulties in changing habits, and mentioned nail-biting as an example. I was biting my…
Ash Wednesday Ashes and Public Role
This Wednesday is Ash Wednesday, the beginning of Lent in my faith as a member of the Roman Catholic Church. I use Lent as an opportunity for personal reflection, and change. I’ve already sent my personal goals, and begun on many of them. Ash Wednesday is traditionally the…
Emails, Emails, and More Emails: Lent Change Idea?
I decided to do some email reviewing this week, basically how many emails I receive in a week, how many I spend, how many are purely work, how many are to friends. What I found was not surprising, I processed over 1000 emails in the week, about 100…
Misplacing One of My Laptop Power Adapter
I’m sure I’ll find it in the last place that I end up looking. I like buying refurbished IBM Thinkpads for my daily work laptops; they are reliable machines, I usually get three to four years out of a refurb, and they all use the same power adapter.…
Too Many People To Remember Them All
It seems only fitting that my personal blog returns to its roots as a place I explore my human experience. Tonight, I walked into the Mulberry Cafe, and there was a person sitting at the table across from the cash register who I recognized, my mind tells me…
Sometimes you just really like a set of lyrics
"Well Orville WrightSet his sightsHigh up in the airHim and Wilbur worked day and nightHe didn’t seem to careWell the town folk said if you were meant to flyGod would have given you wingsWhat makes you want to spend all of your timeBuilding that flying machineAnd Orville said"…
An interesting day, a random personal blog post
Nothing went as I planned today, and my mind isn’t shutting down. Hence, time for one of my rambling personal blog posts. I slept in, I have a flood of unexpected emails (including one that really surprised), tested my memory a bit, had some fun verifying my memory…
Big Yet Small, Hamilton Tales: Hamilton Wards OMB Edition
Hamilton is a medium size city, and you’ll often run into many people you know in the same place. But how often do you run into them thinking about the same thing? It’s 9:30pm, I print onto paper all of my OMB liveblog posts. It’s about 100 pages.…
Coming Thursday in The Silhouette: My Follow-up to a 2009 Column
I’ve submitted an op-ed to The McMaster Silhouette on student voting and effective representation of student interests at Hamilton City Hall. I won’t give anything away, you can read it on Thursday. For those who read my work back in my early days as a journalist, you’ll immediately…
Fun with HSR Operators During OMB Commutes
For the last week and an half of October, I was covering the Ontario Municipal Board hearing at Stoney Creek City Hall. This required taking the HSR multiple times each day. I stayed at a friends in Stoney Creek to significantly cut my commuting time each day by…