September 2010
8 posts
A 72 hour holiday in Mexico before 2 busy weeks in NYC and Australia and a big new partnership & project launch in late October! #chillout
I think I might be addicted to panic… The challenge of leaving the hotel room 20 minutes before the bag drop cut off… :)
In DC this week, and can’t believe the NYC Mosque issue is still top news. The ignorance of some is painful and the media makes it worse!
Yum! @sumosalad has been joined by @sweetgreen as my favourite healthy fast food in the world. Tasty dried Kale + amazing frozen yoghurt!
RT @ibellieve: “If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn’t lead anywhere.” - Frank A. Clark
I hate keeping secrets, but it will be such a good surprise!
Ultimate smackdown: Windows PCs can’t even watch the Apple product launch event video online!
US Navy pays $2,400 a year for each PC workstation, only has 50 MB of e-mail storage per user, and renews for 5 yrs? http://gizmo.do/aqOFRu
August 2010
7 posts
Dear random content web site, why do you insist that my password is 8 characters long with an uppercase letter and number? I won’t remember.
Impressed with Lenovo’s support - 1st time wasn’t a fluke - under 8 minutes to get a system board on the way for audio issue! #dontmissdell
Are you in NYC on September 23? Come to the “How Does Change Happen?” art show in Times Square! http://t.co/nZRLQd4 #change #art
Hey @Paypal - you should enter a contest for worst customer service ever! Had a transaction reversed and my inquiry was met with gibberish.
RT @takingitglobal: 1 week left to sign up for the Sprout e-course & be eligible for the @Pearson Fellowship for Social Innovation! http …
More deceptive marketing from Bell… How can they legally define “Any other service” as just Rogers? http://fibe.bell.ca/en/uploads.php
Sounds familiar! RT @rahafharfoush I hate mornings. Give me an 11am wakeup call and a 3am bedtime and I’m a happy and productive ninja.
June 2010
8 posts
RT @exectweets: “If you’re not occasionally failing, you’re not trying hard enough” -Arthur Sulzberger Jr. #CMSummit
Anyone else ever been in the shower at home an hour before you leave on an international flight, or is that record mine for the taking? :)
Dubai’s new 2012 terminal expansion will accommodate 23 A380s at once! http://bit.ly/c7GLyo Where did our vision for aviation go here in NA?
Read The Economist’s ‘Rulers of the new silk road’ - How Middle East airlines are going to kick butt in the next 20 yrs http://bit.ly/c7GLyo
After celebrating my grandfather’s 90th today, I’ll be leaving the rainy skies of Toronto for some time off in the… rainy skies of London!
Feeling like a Vampire: When the sky starts to brighten as the sunrise approaches, you’ve worked too long/late and you better run to sleep!
I’ve officially left @Dell for @LenovoSocial - good bye Studio XPS 16, hello T410s! Nice and light for light working while on vacation :)
RT @jonbecker: When proposals to present are due 9 months before the conference, the conference is broken. http://is.gd/cyOb3 #AERA
Props to @HP for free recycling! Hope they’re not insulted we returned our CLJ4600 in the box we got our new Xerox in! http://bit.ly/cTZYLJ
May 2010
3 posts
Seven releases of @Android in 20 months! All the buzz about 2.2 but most phones are 3-4 versions behind. I don’t get the appeal…
Excited to welcome over 10 new interns starting Monday @takingitglobal
April 2010
7 posts
Happy Earth Day! Live Low Carbon Lunch Launch: http://bit.ly/av5Nj2 - http://co2lunch.tigweb.org/
RT @40daychallenge: #co2lunch Celebrate Earth Day by joining the Low Carbon Lunch Challenge today http://tigurl.org/lclcommit
Great Wired article about hacker culture conquering world @BillGates “When I was young, I didn’t know any old people.” http://bit.ly/aWprU5
test →
How did you celebrate National High Five day? http://youtube.com/watch?v=oOaStrQAC88 We had High Fives at 5pm in the @takingitglobal office!
Made a commitment to ‘Take the 40-Day Low Carbon Lunch Challenge’ http://rpx.me/AYd
Imagine yourself in the Winners Circle for everything you do. Why not celebrate victory for the little things?
September 2009
12 posts
Thanks for all of your questions & interest! #aisitic09 See you on www.tiged.org - www.treadlightly.me - sproutecourse.org & @takingitglobal
Cool tool! Jing - http://www.jingproject.com/ - looks like a free, simpler version of Camtasia Studio for recording your screen! #aisitic09
Just wrapped up my 5th conference keynote here in Australia. Feeling at home… Sydney, Adelaide, Hobart, Darwin this trip. Back in March!
Today is World Alzheimer’s Day. You can tweet about someone you know who has been touched by the disease: #1Mtweets http://www.1mtweets.com/
Just got schooled on Bangla, International Mother Languages Day & the history of India/Pakistan by the guy delivering my rollaway bed. Nice!
Great way to stay alert after a long flight: driving on the opposite side of the road! What awesome weather in Sydney…
Off to 15 days in Australia - keynoting 4 conferences and a few days to relax in the middle. Thanks to AC33’s beautiful 772 LR for the ride!
A nice few hours in Vancouver… Always so nice to shower in between long flights! See you soon Sydney… (actually 5 conferences not 4)
Awesome, finally - drag-and-drop sharing and auto-sync of purchased media between computers in iTunes 9. Very pleased!
RT @takingitglobal launches Youth & ICT Best Practice doc & directory with UN Global Alliance for ICT + la Francophonie http://bit.ly/gaidbp
Great weekend at the W Montreal! Toronto needs a bike share system like bixi, invented/owned by the city parking corp! http://bit.ly/gLgV4
USA Today: 42% of Americans say they would give up their iPod to help the environment. What does that even mean?
August 2009
9 posts
5 countries, 1,100km of the best driving in the world…in 48 hours. Now that’s a weekend getaway! http://bit.ly/101QzS Now for some sleep!
It’s 2009, I have 4 GB of RAM, and I still can’t paste a few MB of text into Notepad without it freezing. Have we really come that far?
YYZ did you sell the old stairs or something? There’s got to be a faster way to get people off all these planes!!!
Having a great evening in Edmonton and looking forward to working with some of Alberta’s most innovative ICT-using teachers tomorrow!
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