Mostly Ignored
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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-08-29
Barely begun & already Election is gone to the dogs. RT @macjudith: New in Ottawa mayoral race RT @Cleo4Mayor: Great 1st day of campaigning! # Thanks @Twitter, but I don’t want to follow people that are also followed by people I’ve unfollowed. If I dropped them, their follows = meh. # This just in: Justin…
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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-08-22
RT @anildash: Because of their track record of killing Americans, I can’t support the construction of a Ground Zero McDonald’s. # RT @SLJT06: Make sure your kids are asleep before you do the nasty!! OMG! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PpYasA94sU # Vegetables have plenty of protein, and even potatoes are a complete protein http://bit.ly/aaCA5k #vegetarian #vegan # Survey: 98…
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Desparately Seeking Social Life
Moms, Dads: Consider yourself crowdsourced. I’m a happily-married father of three girls (two, four, and six) who’s witnessed his involvements outside work, home, and family dwindle from some to little, then from little to nothing, and more recently from near-nothing to near-something. I could use some perspective about what a realistic expectation is because for…
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Awards Matter
Source: woodleywonderworks Later today I’ll be attending the Government of Canada’s Wiki Community of Practice group to network with peers, learn from them, and try to recognize a few of them in my own way. Specifically, I’ll be handing out the first “Gnomies”—GCPEDIA 1K Club Award statuettes recognizing 1,000 edits to the wiki. Despite my…
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My Tweets for Today – July 5, 2010
Some days, like today, my tweets all run along a similar theme. Today: tunes. Nice to hear that Mr. Gwen Stefani has a new single out. I guess life can be boring when you’re arm candy for a major pop star. I still miss Ronnie James Dio, the 20th/21st century’s foremost lyrical humourist. Also a…
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Happy Canada Day
I hope yours was happier than mine, anyway. The morning was good, certainly. Government Museums in Ottawa had free admission today, so my family and I visited the Canada Science and Technology Museum and the Canada Agriculture Museum. Good stuff, particularly the family-friendly activities at the Experimental Farm. My afternoon was considerably less enjoyable. I…
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The Darker Side of Positive Thinking
American feminist, democratic socialist, pop sociologist and political activist Barbara Ehrenreich explores the hazards of forced positiveness, the subject of her book Bright-sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America.
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Korea’s Answer to Steve Moore
Steve may be the latest example of a drummer whose showmanship is completely incongruent with the music he plays, but he’s certainly not the first. Check out this guy:
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Steve Moore: That Drummer at the Wrong Gig
It’s been a few weeks since I first saw this, but it refuses to go away. Sometimes I use my blog as a personal bookmark for things I’ll probably want to watch again in future years. This would be one of those cases: My first thought upon seeing this video was, “If Tommy Lee ever…