Spelling is important. I don't care if you don't care about how you spell - SPELLING IS IMPORTANT. And grammar? Oh you'd better BELIEVE that grammar is too! If so many people didn't botch it up, we wouldn't have people like Grammar Girl or posts dedicated to people being irked by people publishing online while being unable to spell correctly.
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Good day one and all - hope March has been good to you so far! I was pretty drained an hour or two ago, worrying that I wouldn't have any idea of what I wanted to blog about. But after a quick cat nap on the couch and a sudden spark of inspiration, it all came to me! I'd promised to blog about some topics that were a little more practical, and what ( Read more... )

As part of getting things ready for the wedding (my parents have 15 people staying over!), my Dad rearranged my room. My series of graphic novels were stacked (out of order); my closet was stuffed with a number of boxes that had previously been sorted around the room; but most interestingly, he found a USB key that I thought I'd lost ages ago. It's ( Read more... )

It occurs to me today that I should've posted this yesterday, but hey - you live, you learn.

February wrap-up - what did we learn in the shortest month of the year?

• That you have to make an effort to keep your friendships going
• Just because our grandparents don't "get" tech, it doesn't make their viewpoints any less valid
• That sometimes we really need ( Read more... )

There's a game I play everytime I come back to Mississauga. It doesn't really have a name, but the goal is always the same. It's really simple. Here're the rules:
You either WIN or you LOSE

A lot like life, isn't it? The point of the game is to get rid of as much crap as I can overnight. The more I can get rid of means the more I win! Pretty ( Read more... )

The Internet has come a helluva long way. Remember back when you used to have your Hotmail account and you'd get inundated by spam? Not even from random bots worldwide - from your friends. Yeah, chain mail when it was still hot. I remember all the ones that would tell me that I'd be doomed if I didn't send it out to 15 friends in 15 minutes; or ( Read more... )

After 5 days of talking priorities and prioritization, I figure that I should give you guys a break. There's more to the world than trying to schedule things in so that they get done. Let's talk about something fun - like having fun!
There's no rhyme or reason about the best way to go about it; everyone's going to have a very different and very ( Read more... )

I admitted I had a problem.

I planned.

I prioritized.

I executed.

And now here I am at the end of five days, having gone through an experience that I likely don't want to touch again anytime soon, but at least things got done. So what have we learned from this experience? I guess one thing is that life isn't always fun. Or exciting. We all want it to ( Read more... )

Looks like playtime is over - it's time to get these priorities sorted out and dealt with! The last few days have seen me identify, plan and prioritize the things that are most critical to get done in order to maintain my sanity. In order to give a quick recap, I used the CARVER prioritization method to quickly identify a set of tasks that needed ( Read more... )