A meeting yesterday saw me really excited at the prospect of learning new tricks from someone who has been perfecting his craft for more than twenty years. Everyone has many daily encounters with people who have dedicated their life to their work or art, but this one made me pause and think. The past months [...]
As a quick followup to my previous entry on The Myth of Travel, a quote from John Ruskin which I picked from the last chapter of Alain de Botton’s excellent The Art of Travel: No changing of place at a hundred miles an hour will make us one whit stronger, happier, or wiser. There was [...]
(… and ipod touch, and blackberry…) Bixi is the new community bike service here in Montreal. Lots of brewhaha around launchtime, but to me, the really annoying shortcoming of the system so far was not being able to check the status of stations on the go. According to a message I read on the facebook [...]