I was asked to help test a training system a few years ago, but it didn’t have any useful courses I needed to do my job, so I ended up enrolling and completing a certification in making frozen lake crossings in cargo vehicles.

There are three very important things to remember:
1) Don’t cross on [...]

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Every month at bitHeads someone’s chosen to run the ‘Charity of the Month’ – and my straw got drawn again unexpectedly this summer. I found an awesome charity doing local community development work. The Somerset West Community Health Centre were raising funds to turn a dingy unsafe lot into a community-friendly playground, and well… here [...]

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A note about the practical economics of biking.
I bought a mid-range bike from Bushtukah two years ago for $390. My employer is super progressive and had a “healthy living allowance” that covered off the majority of the cost, so the bike paid for itself almost out of the gate. But even without factoring that in [...]

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I’m feeling that weird sadness you get when you’ve accomplished something but realize it’s now over. Over the weekend I finished my favourite video game ever – De Blob for the Wii. Natasha bought it for me for my birthday and it’s taken me 9 months to complete it, so clearly this isn’t the primary [...]

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Here’s the most recent in my long-running series of knee-jerk reviews of popular films.
Valentine’s Day – Cute – Saw this on our anniversary intending it to be a fun date movie and it came through. The plotlines are extremely formulaic and predictable and a few bits could have been cut to make it flow a [...]

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I got around to seeing the new Karate Kid movie. I’m starting to get scared of 80’s franchise films – there’s only so much you can re-write my childhood before I start to get annoyed with your changes. In the new Karate Kid the kid learns Kung-fu. There’s no Mister Miagi, no Ralph Macchio, no [...]

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I sleep a little easier every night since visiting the fortress at Quebec City – knowing that when invaders try to conquer the citadel, Canada’s elite royal guard have a secret weapon up their sleeve. State-of-the-art blue felt body armour. Razor-sharp solid golden horns. A breed distantly related to killer whales and ferocious arctic wolves. [...]

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