Reasons for picking up Writer’s Digest and Reader’s Digest

I didn’t plan it this way, but I have work in the recent issues of both Writer’s Digest and Reader’s Digest (Canada). So October is all about the Digests, yo. The only hitch is that neither piece is online as of now. So you need to get the print editions. (Or buy the digital edition of WD!) For Writer’s Digest, …

Last week was a very, very good week

I’m still recovering from last week’s festivities and surprises. This recovery process included sleeping for 12 hours last night, which is almost unheard of for me, and spending most of yesterday afternoon and evening lying on a couch and trying to avoid anything resembling work. Last week was the MagNet/PWAC conference, the National Magazine Awards, and the Arthur Ellis Awards. …

Believe me, it really is an honor just being nominated

I came home from my regular Tuesday night boxing class at Blue Cat to discover that I had been nominated for a National Magazine Award. Yeah, welcome home to me. This being 2009, I found out via Twitter thanks to a message from Kim Pittaway. (She’s nominated for three awards! I’m a total underachiever.) Here’s the full list of nominees. …

RenderMan to the rescue

Contained in today’s Globe And Mail is the latest issuse of TQ, the paper’s quarterly technology magazine. I wrote the cover story about wireless security hacker Brad “RenderMan” Haines. He’s a talented white hat hacker based in Edmonton, and the profile raises a lot of important issues about wireless security. The full text is up on the Globe’s website, and …

Mobile technology hits the oil patch

I’m a bit late updating some of the recent work I’ve done. Below is a technology story I wrote for TQ magazine, which is published by The Globe And Mail. It’s also online at their site here. Bonanza in the oil patch A Calgary company hits pay dirt with a wireless ticketing system for its workers in the field CRAIG …

Naked Ambition

I have a feature article in the first issue of The Globe And Mail’s new magazine, Report On [Small] Business. Titled “Naked Ambition,” it’s a business profile of a Montreal couple who turned their swinging lifestyle into a major adult business. I’ll put a PDF of the magazine version up soon, but you can check it out online here right …

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