Swedish For Snubbed
Rumours that London will get its own Ikea swirl around this city like sasquatch sightings up north. …
Baby Mania
How quickly the public turned on the California mother of octuplets after the rest of her story came out. …
Finally, A CEO Takes The Lead
Gordon M. Nixon of RBC is cutting his own salary and investing his shrunken bonus (a mere 2.4 million!) back into RBC to show his faith in the future of the bank and the Canadian economy at large. It’s a start. …
So Much Wasted (magazine and newspaper) Space
Does the public really care that singer Jessica Simpson has gained a few pounds or is “the media” showing its sexist overtones by concentrating on the “issue” as if it had international importance? …
Friggin Rodent
Tomorrow is Groundhog Day and I don’t have to give a rat’s patootie about it for the first time in many, many years. …
Everything In Its Place – Even Junk Should Have Its Own Drawer – “House Proud”, The Toronto Sun
Many organization experts claim there is no need to collect all that stuff we lovingly call “junk.” For them, it’s a black-and-white issue. They reason that if you have everything in its place, you don’t need to keep a collection of stuff that doesn’t belong together. And they have zero tolerance for anything that resembles a junk drawer. We’re all familiar with that unrelated stuff: a night-light bulb, a fork left over from a flatware collection you no longer have, bits of plastic that have come off something you’ll discover the minute you toss them away and an assortment of flotsam that to the naked eye seems practically worthless. …
One Week Til the Bike Show
The World of Motorcycles Expo is in one week’s time. Many of us go to trade shows, home shows and so on but few of us know what it takes to bring one of those successful shows together. This is my second year peeking behind the curtain and I’m much more involved this time around. …
Idol Contenders
Now that I’m not reacting to a 2:30 am alarm every day I can stay up past 8 pm and see what the fuss is about. …
Snow Days
Snowfall warnings are out and the Toro sits at the ready to be called into action once most of it has fallen. …
Kiva Update
Just prior to Christmas I posted my intentions to donate money to Kiva, an international aid organization that distributes loans to budding entrepreneurs in the third world. I chose four people based on their business proposals and loaned each of them $25. toward their modest goal. …
I don’t know much about art…
I look with a bit of envy at painters who sell their stuff online. …
Comments are Here!
In response to a bunch of comments about comments and the lack of them in response to my blogs, I’m happy to say that the ability to leave them has now arrived! …
A-Twitter
I was one of the first of my peer group to get on Facebook and now I use it regularly. But does that put me on top of what’s hot? Apparently not! Facebook is, like, so last year! …
Reality Check
This afternoon I’m talking to first year students in the Broadcast Journalism course at Fanshawe College. It’s an unusual time in our industry and it will be fascinating for me to assess how much they’re plugged into what’s going on. …
This is a First
I forgot to blog today! …
No Friends Like Girlfriends
I spent last weekend in the company of my wonderful friend Erin Davis at her cottage. …
Obama’s Big Day
Barack Obama will be sworn in as US President today. And I’m a little nervous about it. …
I Take It All Back
I’d like to apologize to the woman mentioned in yesterday’s blog, who mindlessly ate a meal on the subway. She might possibly be the Queen of Class compared to what I saw in Union Station yesterday! …