Tag: Life
Startups and Summertime (June 18-23)
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Not a whole lots to say this week, except that my order of Soylent has made it to Ottawa, and is waiting for me at the Canada Post office by my house for pickup. I am excited to give it a try, and hope to write and talk about it a whole bunch very soon!…
Soylent, Apple Watch and #DistractinglySexy
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The entire Unwind Media library is now available on SoundCloud. We did it! Anyhow, now that the transformation of all the shows is complete, a lot more time just opened up for interesting new things…who knows what this summer will bring? Today, I ordered a 7-day supply of Soylent from a California company called Rosa…
My Bus Driver Rocks
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Your typical, run-of-the-mill OC Transpo bus. I couldn’t start the day off right without telling this story. Obviously, everybody has bad experiences with bus drivers sometimes. This isn’t unique to Ottawa, or Canada. Sometimes you catch somebody in a bad mood, and there are probably drivers who revel in the fact that people get upset…
I want Nick Maddox to try Slack
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Let’s make #ThingsNewNickWouldNeverDo trend. +Nick Maddox, don’t make this worse than it already is. [View the story “Things the new Nick would never do.” on Storify]
#ABpoli, Orange Crush, and Archives (Unwind Media | May 20-27)
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It was another full week on Unwind Media, and I’m happy to let you know we finally recorded another episode of East Meets West, discussing, among other things, the recent NDP sweep of the Albertan Provincial government. If you still haven’t gotten your #Taylorette1989 videos out, or at the very least shared your stories, now…
Feedback wraps Season 1, and #Taylorette1989 hits Phase 2 (Unwind Media | May 14-20)
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‘Twas a busy week on +Unwind Media! We wrapped Season 1 of Feedback, which means Volume 1 of Feedback: The Music can’t be far off! As well as regular episodes of Ottawhat? and Future Chat, the next phase of #Taylorette1989 launched. I’m looking for a video or story about what’s special about my fiancée Julia,…
Share your favourite thing about Julia, and your best Taylor Swift memory for #Taylorette1989!
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Tweet #Taylorette1989 Hey friends and readers, July 6 is coming up fast! If you need to get up to speed, check out this post. For the next phase of #Taylorette1989, I’m asking everybody to share something about Julia telling Taylor why she deserves an extra-special bachelorette party, and also telling me about their favourite memory…
SoundCloud, Writing, and #Taylorette1989 heats up. (Unwind Media; May 7-13)
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This week we made a couple of substantial changes on Unwind Media, most notably we’re making the transition to hosting audio files on SoundCloud, as opposed to Archive.org. I’m pretty excited for that, and I even wrote a little bit about some of the neat tricks I am using now to get those files to…
Adventures in Podcasting with SoundCloud (Volume I)
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.code { text-align: left; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1; } I’ve been podcasting and building my website for a couple of years now, and I thought it would be useful to some people if I talked about some of the things I’ve gone through in getting my site up and running that I couldn’t find anywhere…