moving notice

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mea culpa

I find it annoying when people send me emails containing urban legends even though a quick Google search would have set them straight, saving everybody time and bandwidth. So I should have known better than to write about something without checking the facts first.
Last month, I repeated something I had read online about a way [...]

if i hate facebook so much, why do i keep posting about it?

Now people are adding me as their Facebook “friends” just to annoy me.
Very droll.
A still-committed Facebooking friend emailed me this Canadian Press story about a trend I started way back in May:
Endless status updates, unwanted friends: some have had enough of Facebook
By Lee-Anne Goodman, Canadian Press
TORONTO – Mark Johnston is 27, a teacher living far from home [...]

hello, anybody still out there?

hello, anybody still out there?

reformed facebook’er

Here’s an interesting Facebook primer – but obsessive status-updater Tony Pompeo is long gone.

the case of the missing bike path

While doing some research on another topic today, I think I figured out why that dangerous 400-metre-long bike-path gap continues to exist on de Maisonneuve Blvd., between N.D.G. and Westmount.
The city is expecting the new McGill super-hospital project to connect the two paths. The problem is a borough urban-planning committee doesn’t like the plan (page [...]

pas de circulaires, s.v.p.

I’m taking the advice of a DMM,JTTM reader who told me to “smarten up!”
In this comment, Jodster took me to task for complaining about “Unaddressed Admail” (what Canada Post calls the junk mail that it delivers).
He makes some good points, though I’m not sure you can compare Bell Canada to Canada Post, the latter [...]

it’s like riding a bike

Since it’s turning into cycling week on DMM,JTTM, I thought I’d throw this out there. I taught a 7-year-old to cycle without training wheels last Saturday. Took about 20 minutes. This after weeks of struggling on the street. Before going out Saturday, I went online and found some very useful tips from Bicycling Magazine’s website [...]

why can’t montreal cyclists and montreal drivers get along?

Are Montreal cops monitoring this blog? They put out a press release today about bicycle safety.
I had another near-death experience on Ste. Catherine St. this morning, wondering as I dodged driver-side doors and was cut off by taxis about who in the Gazette newsroom would write my obit and whether they’d quote yesterday’s prescient blog [...]

bungee jumping on ste. catherine

Took my bike to work today for the first time since last June. I had forgotten how much cycling along Ste. Catherine St. in morning traffic can be like what I imagine bungee jumping feels like – enjoyable but hair-raising. There’s the constant fear of a car door swinging open, the double-parked delivery trucks blocking [...]

I quit; goodbye cruel facebook

Top 12 reasons why I am about to deactivate my Facebook account, just 35 days after enthusiastically embracing the service:
12) I’m too old.
11) It’s too much like being on a reality-TV show.
10) Once it starts making the front page of paper-based content aggregators, it has lost its cachet.
9) I have a sneaking suspicion all those [...]

the joy of blogging

My wife thinks this cartoon is “hilarious.”

apology

I hereby apologize to my three readers, two of whom publicly complained about today’s redesign in comments (here and here) and the other of whom posted a comment on the wrong posting (here) because of the ill-considered above-mentioned redesign. We’re back to the boring old design.
Comments? Click BELOW.

don’t-mind-me reader revolting

I’m getting some flack for the blog’s redesign, specifically the fact that the Comment link (to read and post) is now at the top of every item rather than at the bottom, where it used to be. Apparently my rash decision to move it up is causing havoc in the blogosphere.
Here is an intriguing and [...]