“Women on Top” to run at UBC
I’ve corresponded with Matthew Klippenstein a few times over the past few years, and found him to be an engaging, entertaining writer. Now I learn that, in addition to being an engineer at Ballard Power Systems, he’s also a playwright. So I’m pretty...Snow, again
It’s starting to snow again in Vancouver – the latest in a series of unseasonable events this winter in what’s supposed to be Canada’s mild West Coast. Few things take me back to childhood as much as the sight of white flakes in the sky. I see...What the hell is this icon?
The nice people at Bloglines offer a number of services apart from aggregating RSS feeds… and one of them is weather forecasts. But check out Thursday in their seven-day forecast: What the hell is that? Did Doctor Who wet himself inside the...Get started blogging, keep your New Year’s resolutions… and win $500
Our good friends (and clients) at Vancity are running a contest on ChangeEverything.ca. The $500 first prize is great, but the cool thing about it as far as I’m concerned is, it’s the ideal way for a beginner to dip their toes into the blogging waters....Small victories: recycled toilet paper at London Drugs
If you’re downtown over the next few days, and you want to make a little difference, you might want to drop into the London Drugs branch at Granville and Georgia and ask for the recycled toilet paper. Dawn Buie did, and describes what happened on...
Why, yes — I’d LOVE to speak at your event
Public speaking and speechwriting: the essential guides
Looking for advice on public speaking, speechwriting and leadership communications? Here are some of my most comprehensive posts, on topics that people ask me about most often.
