Category | Easy on the Adverbs, Exclamation Points and Especially Hooptedoodle

Category | Easy on the Adverbs, Exclamation Points and Especially Hooptedoodle

Some practical writing advice about telling your story and editing out what could be a distraction from the main message.

Eight Life Hacks for Health, Wealth, and Happiness : kadavy.net

Eight Life Hacks for Health, Wealth, and Happiness : kadavy.net

Technorati tags: Life Strategies

Some interesting points in the category of simplification will set you free. Some things I am already doing but the diminishing returns on organizing is a perspective worth giving more consideration. Also check out post on Affluenza.

Speaking Canadian

Arts News Canada: Literary Arts News :

Chances are, you actually speak Canadian
There are, according to Katherine Barber, at least 2,000 occasions on which Canadians put their regional differences aside, and use words and expressions that folks living in the rest of the world just wouldn't understand....As editor-in-chief of the Canadian Oxford Dictionary, which released its second edition last year, Barber is in a unique position to witness the ebb and flow of a language that too many Canadians believe to be simply a mix of American words and British spelling. "We have over 2,000 words that are unique to Canada in the Canadian Oxford Dictionary," she says. "The thing that I find interesting about them is that they're so ordinary. Words like butter tart. There are so many Canadians who don't realize that butter tarts are unique to Canada. Butter tarts, poutine. There are all sorts of foods that are unique to Canada." Barber points to words such as eavestrough, gravol and cheezies, the latter pair the generic forms of trademarked product names, as examples of words we consider common everywhere, but which are actually virtually unknown outside Canada....In many cases, it's the meaning of the word, and not the word itself, that is distinctly Canadian. Collector, when referring to highway collector lanes, is uniquely Canadian....Barber and her staff constantly read Canadian publications, circling words that might merit addition to their database. On planes, she always finds something in En Route magazine....And proprietary words need not apply, at least not until they transcend their original definitions. So timbits, which is still strictly confined to Tim Hortons, will have to wait a while before it can snuggle in between timber wolf and timbre.
Calgary Herald??????????Posted on Friday November 11, 2005

To understand our Canadian identity we need to pay attention and celebrate the many little things that make us uniquely Canadian.

Bus in Winter

Bus in Winter, originally uploaded by Glen Sharp.

Not enough consideration of winter driving when purchasing articulated buses in Ottawa.

Video of Jobs introducing the Macintosh in 1984 (kottke.org)

Video of Jobs introducing the Macintosh in 1984 (kottke.org)

An historic moment in computer history - "the computer for the rest of us".

Ken's Meme Deflector: Entrepreneurs and Their Ideas

Ken's Meme Deflector: Entrepreneurs and Their Ideas:

Entrepreneurs and Their Ideas





Michael Cage:Entrepreneurs have ideas, to be sure, but what makes them unique is not the ideas themselves... but the character to act on them in the face of success and failure... family and societal pressures... an educational system designed to %u201Ckill%u201D the entrepreneurial instinct... and more.

Interesting point about the nature of entrepreneurship. It is not necessarily the innovative idea that is crucial to success as much as perseverance in pursuing the idea in the face of adversity.

Thanks to Ken also for xblogthis!

IMG_0676

IMG_0676, originally uploaded by Glen Sharp.

It's been a great summer and as you can see from the shirt I am also looking forward to hockey season.

Need to experience rate use of blogs in a team environment.

Hope this is working now.

Now is the time to test the new blogging tools.