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On Monday and Tuesday, I experienced my first real business trip. I probably would be more excited about it than I should be, but we went to Seattle. Whoopee.
Going to Seattle for a business trip is like … well, imagine you could travel from Ottawa to Toronto in three hours on a six lane Interstate [...]

A few weeks ago, I made the decision to join the company softball team, the Rad Sox (Rad, as is “Radical”). This was for several reasons: I’d get out more, meet more people in the company that I wouldn’t normally have interaction with, hopefully improve my skills, and have fun.
Two out of four ain’t so [...]

“The goats have been sucked.”
That was how the Rad Sox season wound up Saturday afternoon. We started off the season with a fairly inspirational rallying cry before each game. However, as our less-than-stellar season progressed, the cry degraded to: “Don’t suck goats!”
Why goats? Dunno. It was Amy’s idea. We found it funny, and it put [...]

I’m two days late in writing this (okay, only one day, but holistically speaking, it’s two), so I apologise if anyone had been expecting me to say something. (Like anyone actually reads these things … I’m kidding, of course, some you *do* care about what I’m doing, although I really don’t know why…

I found out this morning that I’m worth keeping. Needless to say, this is a big boost to not only my esteem, but also my ego.
What’s all this stemming from? The Radical restructuring. Today will forever be known as “Black Tuesday” within the walls here at Radical. Today will be an example of why we [...]

The fallout from the round of layoffs a week and a half ago came to a rather disappointing end — one of our lead programmers decided he didn’t want to work for corporate America, and quit. Just as the game he was working on entered the final development stages. I still can’t believe that the [...]

Well, this is my first crack at a proper Branch entry. Hopefully these will go as well as I hope they do…
My weekend got off to a bit of a rocky start — my company laid off 12 people in our Vancouver office. The CEO and CFO of our company (both from our San Francisco [...]