On the sidewalks of New York

I recently returned from a short New York vacation, the opposite of a cottage getaway: you leave to energize and come home to unwind.And walking the streets (not like that) it seems like the best shows really are on Broadway – just not inside.For...

A ‘Bold’ failure to communicate

I’ve been having a few email issues lately. Mostly related to my Blackberry.Sometimes, when I forward an email, random words (and even whole sentences) get cut up, deleted and garbled (or as one email said, rbld). It’s as if I’m writing in a bizarre...

Too much space

Have you noticed that when you save a post in Blogger and come back to it an hour, a day, or some time later, there are extra spaces between the paragraphs? (For an example of what happens, please see below.)I don’t know how much time I spend backspacing in my...

My Air Canada mobile e-boarding pass

…was unscanable at security and the gate.But they gave me the benefit of the doubt and let me through both times.I kind of wish they hadn’t.(Posted from my BB post-flight.)

Spammers one, believers zero*

When people from my agency go on vacation, we try to give them an email holiday, too.We stop cc’ing them and prepare an update that they receive just before they get back with a summary of what happened, the most recent drafts of documents and so on.Of course,...