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Hope it was a good one for you. It was…eventful around here. After a disasterous first-round wrestling match with the beautiful, local strawberries I found on a trek with my friend @kathychung in Richmond, I persevered and today remade 4 batches of Most Elegant Jam.   Now, a few things. Last week I had aContinue reading “Happy Canaberry Day!”

…we resume normal programming. TONNES to blog about. I’ve been dipping into twitter feeds all day to follow the news from Toronto on the G8 & G20 protests. The $1B spent on security rankles when so much else is going lacking in our country right now. More on that later, perhaps. To begin, I mustContinue reading “And once again…”

So, after the luscious foodiness of the last post, I figured it’s time to have a little recap on how things are going with the old walking desk. You may remember that on March 18th, I began a little experiment. [Note: If you DO remember, please skip the following paragraph and advance to GO. DoContinue reading “Walking Desk Progress”

Had a couple of interesting meetings this week. The first was when writer friends Dee-Ann LeBlanc, her husband Rob and Drupal webwizard Dale McGladdery and I all converged on a lovely new spot called Grilled Fromage. Billed as the cheesiest place on earth, we all enjoyed ourselves immensely, picking through the over 60 types ofContinue reading “Scarfing and Other News…”

My buddy, writer James McCann is launching his latest title this Sunday. It’s a fantastic novel about martial arts and growing up and high kicks — the coolest book ever. If you are able to attend, you won’t regret it, with live Tae Kwon Do demos and lots of other fun, it’s shaping up toContinue reading “Flying Feet!”

…and hard on the heels of Sean Cranbury’s Modest Proposal regarding digital rights management, we have the thoughts of Michael Geist, professor, thinker and internet savant [via boingboing]. Geist breaks down his thoughts on the proposed copyright legislatation in Canada, and where the weird little digital locks fail in the current scenario. Provocative and interesting.Continue reading “Geist’s View”

A quick one tonight mostly because it is now tomorrow morning [how does this always happen?] and my ability to type coherently is rapidly ebbing. Just a quick note here to hie over, if you are at all interested in the current Canadian copyright debate, to Sean Cranbury’s Books on the Radio blog. I likeContinue reading “A Modest Cranbury Proposal”

Registration opened this week for the Surrey International Writers’ Conference. If you haven’t been, or checked it out, or heard a peep…[and if so, whereyabeen? Under a rock?] scamper on over to http://www.siwc.ca and check out the plans for this October. Because it’s going to be EPIC. Can’t wait until the fall to scratch theContinue reading “Signed up yet…?”

Well, that was quite the trip. Friends, fire, fiesta…it was nuts. Had a great time. Care to reminisce with me…? My buddy James McCann in Times Square around midnight.       My other buddy Lee Edward Fodi, aka Mr. Wiz, signing copies of his latest Kendra book at the Mom’s Choice booth at BookContinue reading “She’s Ba-a-a-a-a-ck!”

  Been here a couple of days now — so action-packed there’s been little time to record events. A few highlights: Taking in all the sights and sounds of Book Expo America. Heading out on an abortive [and very expensive] gypsy cab ride to NINJA restaurant [with my favourite ninja James McCann, and other friends]Continue reading “Hola from New York City!”