As if you haven't already heard enough about economic doom and gloom, head over to the TechCrunch Layoff Tracker to get a glimpse of the carnage in the tech sector. As an anecdotal note, I've heard nothing but sad stories of layoffs from my friends in management consulting as well and we're not even [...] Read More…
Tonight I finally said goodbye to the old aperte.org and flipped over to a new design that I've been working on for a while. I tested out a prototype with a few of my distinguished readers and got some good reviews, so here it is for the world to see. I started out with the [...] Read More…
I saw an ad for CBC's version of Ski Challenge '08 today while watching the men's downhill at Chamonix. It looks pretty awesome! I only wish it would run on my Mac... maybe I'll install Boot Camp tomorrow just so I can play it. I'm generally pretty bad at video games. I just [...] Read More…
I'm madly cranking stuff out to finish up my first term here. Who needs sleep? Only 11 days to go until I'm on a plane headed west and 12 days until I'm standing on a mountain. I can't wait. I generally dislike traveling by air, but there's something amazing about stepping [...] Read More…
Can't seem to get up and be at work at a reasonable time? Me neither. Probably it has something to do with going to bed after 1am every night. But maybe it's genetic! It seems that being an early bird, a late riser, or somewhere in between may be related to [...] Read More…
Three Canadian racers placed in the top 15 during training runs at the Lake Louise World Cup downhill, including Jan Hudec, who led with the fastest time. Sweet! (anecdote: I vaguely remember Hudec training with our little Red Deer racing club a few times before being ushered off to Banff Academy for bigger, [...] Read More…
I signed up for Facebook a couple months ago, only after I made a trip back home to see the A-list and everyone nagged me incessantly about my lack of presence there. They also got on my case about not being on MySpace, but I hate MySpace. I just won't do it. Read More…
... get rid of the last post as the top item on my blog. Seriously, it has been a month since I've written anything on here. The summer is going too fast. It's only two months from now that I'll be arriving in Toronto with my truck full of goodies from the [...] Read More…
I was cleaning up my messy apartment on the weekend and kept hearing bird noises outside my window. I looked out and saw some of those freaky dog-sized sea gulls perched on the edge of the building next to mine. They were just sitting there making noise and looking at me: See how scary [...] Read More…
Excesses at Target and Bikram! So I went to Target for the first time yesterday and bought a 1L bottle of Listerine (the 1.5L looked a little too big). You know, I was in the neighbourhood. I discovered that if you have a cart at Target you can take it with you [...] Read More…