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10 Reasons I’ll Never Be A Political Candidate

As I’ve gotten more and more involved with the NDP over the past few years, I occasionally get asked if I’d ever consider running as a candidate.  Sometimes it’s tongue-in-cheek (I think) and sometimes, as when someone recently asked if I would consider running for city council, serious (I think). When I used to work [...]

Posted 09 September 2012 § Humour § List § Politics § Shea § Wisdom ‡ Comments (1) ° Also tagged: , , ,

Botox Blog Update

I made a reference to my blog undergoing botox treatments yesterday which was more than a bit intentional as I have indeed restored some youthful vigour to this blog. After starting my first blog on the Blogware platform at blog.jason.hammond.net back in 2006 when I was in library school, I ended up with two blogs after [...]

Posted 29 July 2012 § Blog § Internet § Technology ‡ Comments (1) ° Also tagged: ,

Going Viral

Normally I’m pretty happy with my quiet little “soap blog”, the few regular visitors I have each day plus the spike I see when I write about something timely or controversial or whatever. I don’t usually do a lot to promote my site more widely – I no longer syndicate to Facebook or tweet every [...]

Posted 11 July 2012 § Politics § Technology § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged:

10 Questions With Dr. Ryan Meili

I recently had the chance to interview Dr. Ryan Meili, author of “A Healthy Society: How A Focus on Health Can Revive Canadian Democracy“. After some back and forth discussion, we decided that the best way to do this would be for me to prepare a few questions then send them by e-mail so he [...]

Posted 10 June 2012 § MemoryLane § Politics § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , , , , , , ,

Le Blog C’est Mort

My old blog, which I started while I was library school sometime in mid-2006 and ran up until about a year ago at blog.headtale.com is no more. Apparently the company that owned the Blogware software sent out an e-mail via all their resellers about a year ago saying they were ending their support for the [...]

Posted 19 April 2012 § MemoryLane § Technology ‡ Comments (4) ° Also tagged:

Friday Fun Link – My Year in First Lines

Every year on December 31, I do a “Year End Memes” post which has two parts – the first answers a bunch of questions about the past year.  The second provides an overview of my year via the first lines of each month’s blog post during the past twelve months. Last year, I split them [...]

Posted 30 December 2011 § Family § FridayFunLink § MemoryLane § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , , , , , ,

It’s The First Snow of the Year

An annual tradition on this blog is the posting of this Hawksley Workman song which perfectly captures the joy that comes with the first snowfall of the year.  I also realised this also makes an informal weather history… 2012- October 10 2011 – November 6 2010 – October 26 2009 – October 8 2008 – [...]

Posted 06 November 2011 § MemoryLane § Video ‡ Comments (5) ° Also tagged: , , , , ,

Time Travel, Being Violated By A Police Officer and An Early Hint o’ My Librarian Tendencies

We were at a wedding in my hometown about a month ago.  Sitting at the table during the reception, I was chatting with one of the people I hadn’t seen in a long time but who had lived next door to our house for most of her years in Indian Head.  She was a friend [...]

Posted 01 September 2011 § MemoryLane § Randomness ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , ,

Happy Belated Anniversary To Me!

Having been sick for the last couple days, I missed a pretty significant milestone that I meant to blog about. Just over a year ago, I took the leap and moved from the blog I’d been using for four years to a new platform, a new host and a new domain.  On pretty much every [...]

Posted 11 August 2011 § MemoryLane § Technology ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged:

Friday Fun Link – MetaFilter 12th Anniversary Memories

In addition to the traditional anniversary post which echoes the very first MetaFilter post twelve years ago, this year MetaFilter’s owner decided to solicit user comments on their fondest memories about the site on a very special domain- some of which are funny, some are romantic and some of which are poignant.  (And some of which [...]

Posted 15 July 2011 § MemoryLane § Technology ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , ,