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    Toronto by Night

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    April 6, 2016. The second day of the Education Technology Strategies conference, and also the day I took part in a panel with Jon Dron to close the conference. Afterward I had a very pleasant beer or three with Jon. Accomplishments: - recording of pane...
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    Unon Station

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    April 7, 2016. Taking train from Union Station route to Italy.Is it just me, or is Union Stateion perpetually under construction? It seems like a very long time since I've seen all four walls of the great hall. From Flickr http://ift.tt/1SJIzfb
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    Traditional Bakery

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    April 8, 2016. Landed in Frankfurt en route to Naples. I had bratwurst, as per usual, but this photo is of an airport bakery (which I might add appeared to be far from traditional). From Flickr http://ift.tt/1SJIBUq
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    Toronto by Day

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    April 5, 2016. First day of the Education Technology Strategies conference in Toronto. is the view from my hotel room window. From Flickr http://ift.tt/1SJIyYN
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    Because

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    April 4, 2016. This is the day I was surprised by the news that I would be replaced as the leader to the LPSS program. Last month (and every month preceding) I was doing fine. Today, though, I'm replaced. Why? Because. From Flickr http://ift.tt/1SJIyYF
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    Alex in his Box

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    April 3, 2016. This is Alex 'relaxing' on a Sunday afternoon. That's one of the nice thingsabout cats: they don't need packaging. From Flickr http://ift.tt/1VikPEV
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    Farmland

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    March 31, 2016. This is farmland just south of Casselman. It's colder than it looks. It hasn't been a great few days. Accomplishment: - Finshed two days of developerss meetings. From Flickr http://ift.tt/1UPanVJ
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    Stress Case

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    March 29, 2016. I think we're stressing Alex a bit too much. You can see that he is completely unable to relax. From Flickr http://ift.tt/1UPaqki
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    St. Albert Road

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    March 27, 2016. We had dinner with the family this evening at a local restaurant, but I forgot to take a photo, so the photo of the day is from the first local bike ride of the season, a 27 km jaunt doing a loop to St. Albert and back. There were thous...
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    New Chair and Cat

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    March 25, 2016. I bought a new chair for my office ('the Executive', from Costco) and Alex has laid claim to it. Now he looks like he's lived on that chair forever. Accomplishments: - new chair - posted Good Friday hangout video - posted article 'Emerg...
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    Vincent

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    March 26, 2016. This is a scene from the Home and Garden show at the EY Centre in Ottawa, where we spent several hours this afternoon. I bought some hot sauce and looked at things like garage accessories and deck refinishing, while Andrea bought beeswa...
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    Morning Snow

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    March 23, 2016. It's very pretty as seen from my home office windoww, but it's not what I wanted to see this morning. Today is no-meetings Wednesday, so I had five meetings. Accomplishments: - some backlog grooming done - interview with the Conference ...
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    Little Tiny Pylons

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    March 24, 2016. One thing I enjoy about working with NRC is that I never know what to expect. Case in point: this little enterprise set up on the first floor I spotted as I went to a business strategy meeting (yes, another five meeting day). Accomplish...
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    St. John

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    I hads a meeting in Ottawa today right mear this fine building, the St. John the Baptist Ukrainian Catholic National Shrine. Back at it today, no real accomplishments but wall-to-wall meetings, all productive. From Flickr http://ift.tt/25m7m2w
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    Aircraft Carrier

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    March 21, 2016. Last morning in San Diego. Just before leaving for my flight I spotted Boaty McBoatface cruising through the harbour and held my phone outside the 24th floor window to take a clear shot. Probably not the wisest thing I've ever done, but...
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    Tijuana

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    March 20, 2016. I spent the day visiting Tijuana, Mexico. You can take the city train to the border and walk across to the city - you have to traverse a couple of highways and a river to get to the central area, so it's a bit of a hike (8km in total fo...
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    Canadians in Paradise

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    March 19, 2016. I took this photo in the last few minutes before my presentation Saturday. I was surprised by how many Canadians were represented here at the conference - the poster section, for example, featured a clear majority of Canadians. There wa...
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    Alejandro Jadad

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    March 18, 2016. I both liked and disliked this presentation at the WCCPD conference in San Diego. It was long - 2 hours - and wandering. There were many long pauses.It was based largely on interaction with a backchannel (I out up a lot of comments whic...
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    Polly

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    March 15, 2016. Quick one-day turnaround at home. Time enough, though, to take a cat photo. Accomplishments: - inspected the upgrades to the house and paid the contractor the bulk of the money owning - finshed and uploaded my slides for the San Diego C...

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