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Ten Resolutions For 2012 (And Nary A Diet Among Them)

January 4, 2012

For New Year’s this year, I made the usual kinds of resolutions that everybody makes. Eat healthier. Find more time for myself. Get more exercise. Buy fewer shoes. I don’t know whether I’ll follow through on them, but that’s not really the point, is it? New Year’s resolutions are aspirational. They’re not really meant to [...]

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Have Yourself A Skype-y Little Christmas

December 16, 2011

I’ve been training my mom on Skype. Even though we’re really no further away from her now, in New York, than we were when we lived in Toronto, she feels as though the virtual distance between us has increased by a significant order of magnitude, and needs to feel more connected. So I got her [...]

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Pictures Or It Didn’t Happen

December 1, 2011

Last year, I was called upon to explain how, exactly, I capture the life of my family on camera (I was not asked how I capture the life of my family in words, presumably because WORDS ARE HARD and the art of writing a mysterious and even magical enterprise. I would have said, however, that, [...]

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In Which I Offer A Sophisticated Analysis Of Property Rights In The Age Of The Internet

November 26, 2011

Last week, one of my posts was stolen. Which, whatever, right? Who among us hasn’t had their content pilfered or scraped or otherwise reappropriated? Isn’t it just what people do on the Internet? Take content? Is it even theft, really? Doesn’t information want to be free? Well, yes. But, also: no. Information does want to [...]

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Family Sized Blender: The System

November 24, 2011

Strap in for Jason’s ongoing story. Once a tech obsessed writer/photographer/speaker, he thought he had it all under control – until his family grew six sizes. Now he’s trying to fuse everyone together into a single family. This is Family Sized Blender. Good lord, it’s working. The oldest daughter shut her bedroom lights off. The [...]

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A Different Kind Of Gift Guide (Smurftastic Edition)

November 22, 2011

I’m not the kind of person who consults gift guides, as a matter of practice. Mostly because I find it hard to believe that there’s anyone out there who would have a fix on exactly the types of gifts that I would tend to buy (or, for that matter, want to receive.) I mean, I’m [...]

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The Business Of Blogging

November 15, 2011

So you wanna make money from your blog, do you? Because it looks super easy to make money from blogs, doesn’t it? You just roll out of bed, make some coffee, and then hunker down in your yoga pants to spin paragraph after paragraph of gripping prose that draws readers by the bajillions, such that [...]

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Family-Sized Blender: The Slog

November 14, 2011

Strap in for Jason’s ongoing story. Once a tech obsessed writer/photographer/speaker, he thought he had it all under control – until his family grew six sizes. Now he’s trying to fuse everyone together into a single family. This is Family Sized Blender. There are a lot of disagreements. “You left the towel on the floor, [...]

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Home Is Where The Heart, And The Internet, Is

October 28, 2011

So we’re all together now, my family and me, in our new house – apartment – in New York City and I have to say, it is pretty much equal parts awesome and overwhelming. Awesome, because I get to cuddle my children every single day, which is a luxury that I have been missing for [...]

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Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner?

October 28, 2011

Nancy wants to know how you manage mobile etiquette (yes, there is such a thing.) You can follow Nancy’s other Digital Life discussions in her stream here, and you can see what else she’s up to over at the Intel Canada Facebook page. Personally, I would have thrown his phone out the nearest window.

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