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I picked up a couple books from Chapters yesterday. The first is Writing for the Web by Crawford Kilian. I’ve started reading it, and after only a few chapters it already gives some pretty simple advice for online writing. These include basic things, like understanding that your audience is impatient, so write short, readable sentences. [...]
I awoke yesterday morning after a night of red wine at a friend’s birthday party, and the one great thing about the morning after drinking is eating a greasy breakfast sandwich. In this case it was Tim Horton’s sausage sandwich on a biscuit that had my name on it before I went to the BC [...]
With my site being relaunched, I’m also putting the social enterprise idea I had here for a freethought coffee shop, tentatively titled Cafe Humanism. Check out my manifesto/outline on the page and follow me here for more updates.
I’ve rebuilt this site. It was originally on Drupal, but after much frustration with ugly templates and no useful administrative section, I’ve transferred (most) of my site onto WordPress. I say most because rather than screwing around with SQL databases to extract my old posts, I simply cut and pasted the ones I wanted to [...]
My computer for the past few months has had the friendly habit of randomly redirecting me from a website I type in like http://www.facebook.com to http://www.myspace.comor http://www.mediaplex.com or sometimes http://www.google.com or http://www.twitter.com would become any combination of the above sites. I always doubted that it was a trojan or malware since none of the websites were malicious, but it was [...]
I think this first sign, pictured just outside the science complex in AQ at SFU may represent a real-life version of PostSecret. This second sign is equally cool, but not as confessional. These two signs made my otherwise dreary day just a little bit better.
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