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Category Archives: Wisdom

Too Many Tabs Tuesday

“It’s the Old Generation That’s Entitled, Not Students” – The National Post with a spot-on observation about the current Quebec protests How Reddit’s Co-Founded Became the Mayor of the Internet Speaking of Reddit, a novelty account called ShittyWatercolors did an illustration of my own user name, “HeadTale” (well, mis-read as “HeadTales” but you get what […]

Posted 05 June 2012 § Family § Politics § PopCulture § Technology § Video § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , , , , ,

Music Monday – “6am/Day after Christmas/The smell of cold/Car seat is freezing/The world is sleeping/I am numb”

One of the saddest songs I know…

Posted 04 June 2012 § MemoryLane § MusicMonday § Sad § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Friday Fun Link – What Would You Take If Your House Was Burning Down? (Photos)

An interesting question – people are asked to take a photo of what they’d take from their house if it was burning down.  I mean, obviously, the right answer is “nothing” and “get the hell out as fast as possible.” Also, “make sure my family is out” is an acceptable answer. From the stuff photographed, […]

Posted 01 June 2012 § FridayFunLink § MemoryLane § Technology ‡ Comments (1) ° Tagged:

Facebook & Google: Pictures & Vision

This is a great article which explains that the difference between Facebook and Google is the difference between pictures and vision – both in terms of what drives each company’s culture and how they may evolve in the future.

Posted 30 May 2012 § Technology ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Omni.com (and Some Thoughts on My Current Digital Life)

Information overload is a well-known condition these days and the situation is only getting worse as more useful web sites, more  granulated social networks and more cool media outlets gain popularity and battle for your attention. I’ve been thinking a lot about that and increasingly, I find myself wishing there was a single web site […]

Posted 20 May 2012 § Technology ‡ Comments (1) ° Tagged: , , , , ,

Some Random Thoughts on TedXRegina

So I was one of the lucky 100 who got to attend TedXRegina on Wednesday at the ShuBox Theatre at the U of R. Here are some random thoughts about the day… – never realised until the night before while checking out the #tedxregina hashtag on Twitter that there were only 100 seats available as […]

Posted 17 May 2012 § Humour § Library § Politics § PopCulture § Randomness § Technology § Work ‡ Comments (2) ° Tagged: , , , ,

TedxRegina

After an extremely long day, I’m pretty tired. Hopefully I’ll revisit my TedxRegina experience in the next day or two. But for now…

Posted 16 May 2012 § Humour § MemoryLane § Politics § PopCulture § Sad § Technology ‡ Comments (0) °

George Carlin’s Greatest Moment

Definitely one of them…

Posted 10 May 2012 § Humour § Politics § PopCulture § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , , , ,

Obama Comes Out

Barack Obama made history today as the first US President to officially come out in support of gay marriage (not “civil unions” aka the semantic wankery that gets used so often in the US to denote “different but equal“) The timing is good coming in the wake of a North Carolina vote that saw the state’s […]

Posted 09 May 2012 § Family § Politics § Sad § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , ,

A Great Way To Fire Someone

I was talking with a colleague today about the process of having to fire people.  I said I’d had this experience twice – once when I had to fire someone, once when I begged for clemency for an employee whose job was on the line.  (I thought this employee was being targeted for the wrong […]

Posted 08 May 2012 § Library § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,