February 8th, 2010
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News — Ryan J. Allen @ 21:56
There was a time when e-mail was new to all of us. If you are of my generation then the idea of your own personal e-mail address probably came at a time when the username part of the e-mail address was an opportunity for self-expression. As we’ve aged, most of us have outgrown [...]
June 24th, 2009
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Germany,
News — Ryan J. Allen @ 8:17
I am going to be honest with you: I am feeling a heavy balance between being happy to be here in Germany, and being excited about returning to Canada. What I mean is, rather than living in today my mind is thinking about the future. Given the option of going back to Canada [...]
June 13th, 2009
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News — Ryan J. Allen @ 5:49
Don’t you just love the feel of a brisk morning air, everything quiet but the birds, and the sun softly introducing itself to the day? Those of you who don’t believe in “before 6 a.m.” are missing out.
June 1st, 2009
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Germany,
News — Ryan J. Allen @ 23:28
I am doing something that I may not have ever done before in my entire life: I am delaying the purchase of an item to the next fiscal month in order to delay my having to pay for it by another month. It is not a ground-breaking concept but it is one that I [...]
May 19th, 2009
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Germany,
News — Ryan J. Allen @ 8:42
Yesterday whilst sitting on the balcony patio of the Grand Cafe Orient in Prague I called my personal concierge service and asked them to get me tickets to see Yo-Yo Ma’s performance at the NAC this October. After I got home I received an e-mail confirming my itinerary for the evening. The performance [...]
March 25th, 2009
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Germany,
News — Ryan J. Allen @ 9:02
Eight. What is the significance of the number eight? What does it mean to you? How does your context differ from the context of this post?
Eight could seem like a small number if you are thinking on a scale of millions, billions, or even larger. It could also seem like a [...]
February 16th, 2009
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Germany,
News — Ryan J. Allen @ 8:34
Inexplicably, I am feeling very tired this morning.
Completely explicably, I have nothing for breakfast and I have to drive to work this morning (versus taking the tram). I have something like 6 Euros in my wallet and my tram pass has expired. Said pass is €44.50 monthly for the “zwei waben” pass that [...]
February 13th, 2009
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Germany,
News — Ryan J. Allen @ 15:19
In Germany my office is…well, an office. The typical setup in Germany seems to be an office shared by 3-5 people; my office is a smaller one, so it is setup for two people, but I am the only one in here. There are certainly many great features to such a setup including: [...]
February 11th, 2009
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News — Ryan J. Allen @ 7:54
I have some advice that I would like to share with you: to ensure a speedy and comfortable extraction from bed in the morning please make sure that the temperature in the room is comfortably warm.
In trying to reduce my energy usage I have tended to set the thermostat a little bit on the cool [...]