January 2012
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December 2011
1 post
October 2011
3 posts
September 2011
5 posts
August 2011
1 post
July 2011
2 posts
June 2011
1 post
ABC News ACT (without sport) →
RSS feed for ABC News for the ACT but with all the sport news stripped out.
I like to follow local news but I really don’t care what the Raiders and Brumbies are up to.
May 2011
1 post
Impressions of Isla Dorada
I have been looking forward to playing Bruno Faidutti’s magnum opus for quite some time. There were six of us recently to play a board game, and it just so happens that Isla Dorada is one of the rare games in my collection that manages six players; it had to be the game we played.
Bruno goes into the history of the game in detail on his website, but the short history is that it’s a...
April 2011
3 posts
Incendies
“You’re looking for your father, but you don’t even know who your mother is.”
Incendies was a tough film to watch, but it was definitely worth it. The film begins with the reading of a mother’s will in Québec, in which she asks her son and daughter to deliver letters to their father (who they believed was dead) and their brother (who they didn’t know...
Designing Graceful, Gracious Interfaces for iPad →
Surprisingly, Omnifocus is one of my favourite apps on the iPad. It’s so useful on the desktop and on the iPhone it was pretty much a given that I would buy the iPad version too. The surprise is how much of a pleasure it is to use. After watching this video and seeing how much thought has gone into the Omnigroup’s apps I’m no longer surprised.
Incidentally, another of my...
March 2011
1 post
Braid on the Mac App Store →
If you’ve never played this brilliant game, treat yourself for just a dollar today.
February 2011
1 post
Best patisseries in Paris
[Vous trouverez la version française de ce courriel en bas.]
Perhaps because I’m known for my rather sweet tooth, or perhaps because I’ve also been able to spend a bit of time in Paris, but for whatever reason I’ve been asked a few times over the last few months what my favourite spots are for trying the best of French pâtisserie in Paris.
My friend Jon leaves for Europe...
January 2011
1 post
C'est la vie - News of Malcolm →
I listened to this podcast episode this morning during my ride in about an adopted Haitian boy. My eyes misted up so much I could hardly see where I was going.
December 2010
4 posts
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Freewheeling in the snow →
Normal people cycling through an Ontario winter.
“I never have any intention of owning a car again,” Mitchell said. “If I had to give up riding my bicycle to Toyota I would give up my job.”
New light cast on lesbian issues →
“The AIDS Action Council of the ACT has issued the first snapshot of Canberra’s lesbian and bisexual women’s community, which examines topics ranging from group sex to child-care services. One of the study’s authors, David Mills, said much of the research into gay sexual health focused on men.”
