A couple of stories about truth and stories. Yesterday on CBC Radio’s Sounds Like Canada, Shelagh Rogers interviewed Paul Rosen. Paul Rosen is the goaltender for Canada’s Sledge Hockey team, and is getting ready to head over to Turin to compete in the Paralympics. Rosen is an amputee, having lost his leg to a persistent bacterial infection. Very early on in his new life as a one legged man he adopted a very positive outlook. His doctors were suspicious and sent him to a psychiatrist for an evaluation. At that consultation, Rosen took some water and poured it on his …
Alright, I made the switch to WordPress. Like every big move, the decision to do so was simple, the mechanics slightly harder and the final touches will take awhile. At any rate, if you are reading this in a newsreader, you won’t notice much difference. For those of you with more of an eye to template, please bear with me. Like moving to any new house, it will take a while to redecorate. Overall though, happy to be here in WordPress land.
I’m switching over to WordPress, and so blogging might be light until I can get everything tweaked just right. I want to take this opportunity to thank Blogger for five years of great free services. I have had very few problems with Blogger over the years, and I’ll still be using it for several blogs and bits and pieces I’m working on. In the meantime, I’m looking forward to using WordPress and I ask your indulgence to bear with me through this change. Tags: wordpress, blogger
I’ve been losing posts somehow. My post on waiting and emergence shows up in my archives, but not on the front page here or in my dashboard. Anyone know what’s up? Time for a move to WordPress? Tags: blogger, wordpress
Here’s a great story from MashUp Camp on how an Open Space Technology unconference worked. The article concludes with this quote: ‘The amazing thing about these camps, using open space methodology, is they shouldn’t work,’ said Ross Mayfield, CEO of Socialtext, which makes social software for collaboration. ‘Like a wiki, it turns out that some very simple and open rules have shockingly positive results–because people, on the whole, are good. Open events like these have become almost commonplace in the Valley. In fact, I’d say they are a key driver for the current wave of innovation. One part wiki, one …