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Wednesday, 15 October 2008 |
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We're starting the shift to the new look here at the blog, and it got underway yesterday. This is going to happen eventually (as it should, of course), with the site shifting from focussing on the system known as Effing The Dog to the ideology behind the system, known as Eventualizm. While "efforting the dog" is still a key component behind my pearls of offered wisdom, I feel you're all ready to move forward and begin to grasp the semi-awesome power of Eventuailzm, which is a true productivity "alternativity." EffTD is still the sytem you will use to make your way through this journey that you're trying to catch up to me on, but Eventualizm is what you're ultimately journeying to and fro for. Why the "z" instead of the traditional "s" in the word? There are three reasons, and I'll elaborate on both of them tomorrow. For today, just know that you'll have all of the answers to why the shift is occurring..and you'll have them eventually.
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Wednesday, 15 October 2008 |
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With the world teetering on the brink of an economic crisis, there is a significant amount of focus on more people becoming poor over the course of the next while. It’s in the news. But with today being Blog Action Day, it is as if the founders of this prestigious day knew this was going to happen and planned it all along. All the signs are there. Here’s how the series of events went down (in my estimation, at least): 1. I received an email asking me to participate in Blog Action Day for 2008. Feeling a sense of pride and thinking that it meant that I would get to write “poorly” for a day, I accepted.
2. As October 15th approached, the world’s markets collapsed. Even my local farmers’ market tent collapsed. That’s how far the Blog Action Day reach was. It was at that point I realized what the email actually meant, especially since I could not find coronation grapes anywhere.
3. I received another email, this time a “reminder” that Blog Action Day was only 5 days away. This was not a gentle reminder, it had a sense of urgency…almost threat-like.
4. October 15h arrives. Time to write.
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Tuesday, 14 October 2008 |
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 Today is Decision Day in my home and native land, and all signs point towards another minority for the reigning Conservative Government. Now I know many of you are wondering which political party I support, whether I'll be voting at all and who I'll be voting for if I do vote. I'll answer both of those with an emphatic "yes."
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Sunday, 12 October 2008 |
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 There once was a fella named Jones
Who fell to depths not recently knowns;
You know him as Dow
And he fell from grace - and how;
Which resulted in really big loans…
(TO THE WRONG PEOPLE!)
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Sunday, 12 October 2008 |
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A week ago I reviewed the film Chaos Theory, as part of my segment EffTD Sort Of Goes To The Movies. For those of you who have not seen the film, I am left wondering why and also disappointed that you didn’t rush out to rent it (or not rush out to rent it and just download it) within the last week or so. For shame. On you. As an admirer of Ryan Reynolds’ work, and the character he plays in this film in particular, I decided to take it upon myself to enact one of the key elements of this film in real life…using index cards to make my decisions for me. Here’s how it went down:
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Friday, 10 October 2008 |
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Today I posted the third of three podcasts I'm presenting here this week at Effing The Dog as part of Triple Podcast Week. While you don't get a lot of me on this episode (which is briefly explained in the podcast and will be elaborated on tomorrow here at the blog), you do get the fantastic interview I had with Carl Honoré, author of In Praise Of Slow (or "Slowness" if you're American) and the recently award-nominated book Under Pressure: Rescuing Our Children from the Culture of Hyper-Parenting. What you'll get going forward is a twice weekly podcast featuring interviews, regular segments, and most importantly - me. Upcoming guests that get to talk to me are Jonathan Coulton (in the second part of our fireside chat) and The Geoff Smith - and more are going to have the honor soon (or honour, if you're Canadian or perhaps British). In the meantime, enjoy the podcast here or subscribe via iTunes. I'm going to go eat more bacon now. So sayeth the index card, so it shall be done!
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