Wow – 5 years ago I started this little blog. Such a very different life I live now – 2.75 children, wonderful dog, beloved wife (well, she was there at the start of things too). A very different, and very full life.
Looking at the use of the site I see that I’m very popular with Google and Bing – their spiders come by quite frequently causing me to erect robot-patrolled fences around certain areas to stop them from chewing up my bandwidth. But real live people just aren’t discovering my wit, wisdom, and general humour.
I’ve asked myself recently why I blog, why I tweet – it takes time and I’m not sure I want to continue spending time on it. I came up with a few good answers (honestly!). However all the reasons could be achieved with less time invested. I don’t think anyone actually reads these posts – so essentially I’m posting to myself. Which makes this post somewhat … weird.
I’m leaving off blogging and communicating via static pages in general. I’ve avoided FaceBook and MySpace, Geocities and all that ilk. I think the Internet has its purpose, but I do not think it is OK to have its main purpose to be self reflection and time sinking.
So I plan to re-examine the use of this domain. I look back at 5 years of posts and smile as it is a good chronicle of some parts of my life. This will be my 364th post here – there has to be some value in there somewhere, right? But I’m ending things with you today – we may revisit our relationship soon enough, but first I need to make things officially over.
So goodbye, farewell, enjoy your freedom. I plan to enjoy mine.
We’ve finally put the polish on our 2009 holiday letter. It’s a brief look into our lives in 2009, and the wonderful things we know are coming in 2010 (not including the Olympics). It also includes a final unveiling of a family secret, if you needed a good reason to go read it.
Happy Holidays to everyone from the Bridgers at Goggs Avenue!
Now here’s a nice/nasty Best Man’s prank on the groom – a pressure sensitive pad on the marital bed that tweets when the newlyweds “get it on”. How long until this guy’s real identity is found out?
Of course in today’s world, do we have any proof that this isn’t just a brilliant new social advertising campaign by the manufacturer of these devices?
I received a Continuing Studies catalogue from SFU the other day. I glanced through it and was dumbstruck by an advertisement on page 35.
SFU Advertisement
Seriously? Did anyone even look at the picture before putting it in the ad? Are they trying to ensure that no women join their programs? Why would they choose a picture of a women who looks uncertain, or slightly confused? Why put two men laughing, looking in her direction? Two Caucasian men – one of who (to me at least) seems to be laughing at someone else’s expense? They were even so good at choosing images that it looks like the man in the white shirt’s hand is the hand in front of the lady presenting. It’s almost as though someone actually put some thought and effort into this train wreck.
Could anyone look at this image combination and say “Hey – good stuff! SFU students have fun and have interactive classes.” Obviously someone at SFU did …
I’ve emailed the Continuing Studies program and the alumni association – as an alumni myself, I find this unacceptable.
I recently attended a brief workshop on environmental issues and systems thinking. There I was introduced to two labels that really resonated for me: labels for problems we’re facing in this world. Things I know are wrong, but haven’t been able to put into words easily. These ideas captured some of those scattered thoughts.
Tragedy of the Commons
Shifting the Burden
Bring your kids in, in costume, and get a free 8×10 taken at the store and printed before you leave. Good for Friday and Saturday only.
I’ve been very quiet the last couple of weeks.
My spare time has been taken up with a large variety of things – most importantly, I delivered my BAWorld presentation this afternoon on Usability Analysis and Interface Design.
If you’re curious (and who wouldn’t be?) – check it out (requires OpenOffice.org’s Impress presentation software)
Kirk Bridger – Eliminating The Odd-Delivered
I think it went quite well – the room was certainly more full than any of the other sessions I attended today. I hope my passion and love of the topic were apparent.
