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Out of Isolation

It looks like my story in the Edmonton Journal has come out of isolation as well and has been syndicated across the Canwest/Global/canada.com system. So I’ve seen it in papers from Vancouver to Montreal often with people asking questions about either the Nike system or motivation along the way. I guess I can now think [...]

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Up in the Air

Well it seems that things are still up in the air. I’m still disrupted, but I’ve got a short term contract in the VPIT’s office doing some really interesting work. I haven’t been sitting still over this involuntary break, I’ve been working on a PhD application as well as my running. I’ve managed three long [...]

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• Well, this update went much smoother than the other WP updates that I have done. At one point I was looking at running both this site and the blog site from within the same WP, but I don't think that would work. It will be too much of a hassle for me to figure out how to ensure it works and to get everything moved over properly. I might very well try on my test domain, but for now, I'll be keeping that which isn't broken, running as is. #
• ... How my baby is like the Nexus One - Both reasonably new models, but with new revs coming every day, it seems impossible to keep up. Neither are really built to sleep, they want to interact all the time, both are small and peppy and take very little to recharge. Both have alarms that you may or may not be able to set to when you would like them to really go off. ... #
• Well, 14 gold medals, thank you "own the podium" for giving up on your team on your own turf. The world counts gold medals, not total medals why don't we? Congrats Olympic team Canada for showing up the pencil pushers. #
• This time last year, I was waiting to meet my baby together with Neelam who was getting ready for the OR. The temperature was -39 outside and I think I was a bit scared. Fast forward a year, Bug is the shining gem of my life (along with Neelam of course), it is +7 outside and I'm pretty mellow with the idea with raising a little girl. I could go on forever, but I'll stop there. #
• I've just set up a URL shortener - this way, as long as I've got my domain up and running, I know those links are going to be good - at least at the first point. So if you see boora.ca/short/ URLs out there, they are mine. #