February 8th, 2010

Novelty E-mail Addresses

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

You Always Want What You Don’t Have

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

Morning!

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

A New Age of Fiscal Responsibility

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

Yo-Yo Ma

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

Eight

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 [...]

March 7th, 2009

Saturday Morning

February 16th, 2009

The Collection

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

Just Like Everybody Else

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

Stay Warm

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 [...]