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Quest For Noiselessness

Posted on July 26th, 2011 at 9:40 pm :: 4 Comments

I’ve been striving hard to reduce the amount of online “noise” in my life lately. Without setting any quantitative goals, I’ve been working relentlessly on removing distractions and trying to minimize interruptions. Normally when I wake up I have around 50 messages waiting for me in my inbox. Many of them are automated – comment notifications from WordPress, Google+ messages, Facebook, etc, but they are still things I need to deal with, even if it’s » read more »

Our Pale Blue Dot

Posted on July 24th, 2011 at 2:07 pm :: No Comments
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With recent world events, I found myself reminded of an image and a few words. In 1977 the Voyager spacecraft was turned around and a photograph was taken of earth from far away. The end result is this image, showing earth as a small, pale blue dot. At a presentation talking about this image, Carl Sagan, one of the world’s most respected astronomers at the time, said the following: “We succeeded in taking that picture » read more »

Goodbye Derek

Posted on May 7th, 2011 at 10:40 am :: No Comments
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As everyone in Vancouver now knows, Derek Miller passed away Tuesday evening and his final blog post, written before his death, was published online first thing in the morning. When I first read the post, I did so thinking it was an actual update from a living Derek, and had to read it twice before it sunk in on me that he was actually gone. I never knew Derek Miller before cancer. The first time » read more »

New Bike: Cannondale Bad Boy Solo

Posted on May 2nd, 2011 at 3:00 pm :: 4 Comments
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Between the ages of 17 and about 21 or so I was actually pretty big into biking. I used to have a Specialized mountain bike, and would hit the trails on the weekends or ride around Chilliwack with my friends. Unfortunately that bike got stolen one day when I accidentally left the garage door open overnight, and I didn’t have money to replace it at the time. About five years ago I decided to pick » read more »

10 Years Of Blood

Posted on May 1st, 2011 at 10:18 pm :: 4 Comments

As everyone now knows, Osama Bin Laden was killed tonight in what was apparently a US led mission in Pakistan. I watched the entire media surrounding the event unfold, starting with Twitter, moving to some news agencies such as the New York Times, and finally culminating in President Obama’s speech regarding the death of Osama Bin Laden. In truth, I found it hard to watch. While I am happy that all the families who were » read more »

When You’ve Got The Gas Pump Blues

Posted on May 1st, 2011 at 3:59 pm :: 4 Comments
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I remember taking a summer off from UBC one year and heading back to Chilliwack. At the time gas was sitting at around 39 cents per litre. It’s hard to imagine that it’s only been around ten years since then and gas is now hovering at around 140 cents a litre in the Vancouver area. To put that into context, the $60 I spend filling up my car would have cost around $16 back then. » read more »

New Morgan Concert Series Guitar

Posted on April 30th, 2011 at 11:20 am :: 3 Comments
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Back when I was 18, my mom asked me what I wanted as a present for successfully completing high school with honours. My friend Matt at the time had just started playing guitar, so I decided at that moment I too wanted to be a guitar player. A few weeks later we found ourselves down in Tom Lee music in Vancouver, and my mom purchased my first guitar for me, a Fender Stratocaster. Since that » read more »

WordCamp:Developers

Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 8:52 am :: 2 Comments
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There’s a new kid on the block in terms of Vancouver WordPress conferences, and that kid’s name is WordCamp:Developers. Unlike previous incarnations of WordCamp in the Vancouver area, WordCamp:Developers will have less content about the beginner aspects of WordPress (like the difference between .com and .org, which comes up at many conferences) and more content about advanced aspects of WordPress, such as development. As many people know, I’ve helped organize three WordCamp conferences in the » read more »

Back At Home

Posted on April 19th, 2011 at 8:49 am :: 2 Comments
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As many people on Twitter know, after four months of traveling I am finally back at home in BC. I was originally going to fly back home on Thursday, but the combination of a friend of mine having a death in the family back home and the fact that I found a really cheap flight leaving Dublin on Sunday made me decide to head back a few days early. Sunday was a long day: I » read more »

Happy Birthday Mom!

Posted on March 2nd, 2011 at 5:00 am :: 2 Comments
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Today is my mom’s birthday! Like almost everyone older than me, she just turned 39 today. That means she has many long, happy years of bingo playing ahead of her! My mom was pretty sad when I moved out of Chilliwack, but she’s been taking my absence like a trooper. I try and do a call with her at least once a week, and we catch up on all the excitement back in cow town. » read more »

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