Category: writing & communicating

  • old blogger, new tricks

    old blogger, new tricks

    I’ve been writing a lot lately, and as I work to tweak and promote and refine everything that I’ve written I’ve been locked in this reality of the internet in its current state: that blogs are all but dead media. I was going through my bookmarks the other day and it was almost depressing how…

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  • un-synced

    un-synced

    I have been particularly terrible at updating this blog over the summer. I mean, look. I’ve been doing a crapload of writing… just not here. Over the summer I ramped up my niche blog count to three “daily” blogs, including A Blog from Nowhere which has been live for going on a little over 9…

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  • twenty-five

    twenty-five

    I’m gonna go on about this all day and probably longer, but today—as I write these words and post them on April 20, 2026—is my blogiversary.  On April 20, 2021, I was sitting in a hot little studio apartment in mainland Vancouver having just moved out there for work and I decided to write an…

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  • keyboard life, two

    keyboard life, two

    Along with the hundreds of thousands of aging finger prints atop the keys, I’ve let a bit of dust accumulate on my keyboard lately.  It was not for lack of writing. Mostly. See. Late last year I found myself in need of a new computer. It was a mostly obvious choice. I’ve largely ditched Windows…

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  • refresh

    refresh

    One word that sums up your theme for 2026. Hey look! New year, new template. So, um…. that’s not exactly a rule, but when I rebooted this blog space back in April I tossed up a placeholder template to get me started, customized it lightly and kept rolling. (Well… typing and posting.) It was solid…

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