Beltane by Shadowgate I subscribe to the Minus Records music service. For €30/year I get access to every release (up to 20) during the subscription period. When new music is available I receive an email with a link to the files. The link is one-ti…
I am to my beloved by Shimone Samuel Considering love, friendship and communication in the digital age got me thinking – what’s the best way to tell someone you care? A new friend or an old one, a family member, partner or lover. Maybe you just wa…
Straight Strength by Shimone Samuel I’m noticing a new trend in the social network: deactivation. What I find most interesting are the reasons behind some of these deactivations. Among them, people deactivating when their emotional reaction to the…
Enjoying my morning commute on Highway 101, going about 50MPH in the carpool lane, I look down at the instrument panel and notice the gas light is on. Huh? I look at the odometer, I’ve got at least another 30 miles before I have to fill up. Then I…
Very recently I found myself stressed out, exhausted, anxious and just generally overwhelmed. I was actually doing fine until a few weeks ago when my manager asked “how much time are you taking off for the baby?”. I hadn’t given it much thought un…
BlackBerry 6: Another Sneak Peak “In the almost ten years I’ve worked at Research In Motion (RIM), I’ve never been as excited about a BlackBerry software launch as I am for BlackBerry 6″ – Andrew Bocking, VP of Handheld Software Product Mana…
Like most men I shave some part of my face daily. Like some I’ve been cursed with ingrown hairs to be plucked with tweezers one by one. For many years I simply grew and cultivated a beard so I would only have 50% of the work. In my attempts to get…
In the last 6 months the way I relate to my job has completely transformed. Referring to my job I now say …
I can’t believe I hadn’t thought of this sooner… This morning while following a link to an article on the New York Times website I was bombarded with duplicate full-width and full-height animated Flash banners. Trying to read an article with an …
You’re getting ready to travel and suddenly realize with all the free time you could actually get some writing done. Naturally, you consider a blog of your travels to be a fitting subject. You wouldn’t be the first however so here are a few tips -…