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{ Monthly Archives } October 2006

Kiwifruit Trivia

When Eve was vis­it­ing a few weeks ago, she said that someone was tour­ing gro­cery stores in her area teach­ing people how to eat kiwifruit effi­ciently. I expressed some scep­ti­cism that this was neces­sary; she assured me it was. For fun I decided to do a photo shoot of how to cut and eat kiwifruit […]

2006 10 27 Food and Wine Comments (16)

Consequences

It’s awfully cute when you watch a kit­ten play­ing with the phone cord but not so cute when you see the con­sequences of the same kit­ten, now a cat, play­ing with the hand­set cord. I’m sure there’s some sort of par­ent­ing les­son in there.

2006 10 24 Family Comments Off

CfS: NV2007

Enough acronyms for now — the Call for Speak­ers for North­ern­Voice 2007 is open! North­ern Voice is Vancouver’s blog­ging con­fer­ence, focus­sing on per­sonal blog­ging. This means talks on how to solve some company’s PR prob­lems are not really in scope, though tips on how to run a per­sonal blog when you’re also an exec­ut­ive at […]

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2006 10 23 Conference
Technology Comments (0)

Social Networking Musings

It seems social net­work sites are con­sidered the heart of the inter­net these days, at least if you’re under 25 (which I’m not); real-life net­works still exist of course, espe­cially if you have chil­dren (see Tim’s post on Real Social Net­works). I’m old-fashioned in that I still use email to keep in touch with people […]

2006 10 18 General Comments (1)

International Car Seats

We’re plan­ning on trav­el­ling to Aus­tralia for a vaca­tion, and since the baby will shortly need a new car seat any­way, I was hop­ing to get one that matches Cana­dian and Aus­tralian stand­ards. Britax makes car seats in each coun­try but when I called them they said the Cana­dian car seats did not meet Australian […]

2006 10 16 Family
General
Standards Comments (3)

Books on Raising Children

There seem to be as many philo­sophies about how to bring up chil­dren suc­cess­fully as there are par­ents, which fact you tend not to dis­cover until you are a par­ent your­self. And then you have to hope that your philo­sophy is reas­on­ably con­gru­ent with that of the other par­ent and/or care­givers in your child’s life. […]

2006 10 14 Books
Family Comments (6)