Sep
28
blog break
11:20 pm | 3 Comments
Sorry for the long span between posts. I decided to take a bit of a blog break and didn’t tell anyone. I’ll be back, and I’ll put work into the site to fix some usability issues, but only after I’m inspired. Perhaps my first trip to New York will serve that purpose; I’ll be spending […]
Sep
10
rescue mission: birdie
9:22 am | 2 Comments
Ever get on a streetcar or bus and get the feeling you’ve just missed something, something that happened before you got on? I suspect that’s how the person who got on the King streetcar at Brant Street felt this morning at around 9 am. Only moments before, a tiny bird had been freed from the […]
Sep
9
Normally I’m a little underwhelmed by the offerings on ColdType, an ambitious e-reading room run by respected news designer Tony Sutton. Despite being the publisher of this weblog, I have an aversion to reading anything of substance on a computer screen, and often dismiss the regular email updates I get from ColdType for that reason […]
Sep
2
pulling for the russians
8:23 pm | Leave a Comment
I don’t know if I’m feeling a leftover spirit of international fellowship from the Olympics, or just general human concern, but this Russian hostage case has me feeling both interested and a little tense here in Toronto. I’m far more interested in what will happen to the 300 Russian hostages than I normally would be. […]
Sep
1
Readers, I think we should talk. Maybe you should sit down. Listen, there’s no easy way to say this, so I’m not going to beat around the bush. I’m cheating on you. I started posting to another blog a few weeks ago and I’ve made a few posts and comments on it since then. The […]


