Archive for August, 2008

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I like reading history – particularly personal history and biography. So it was wonderful to meet J. Gordon Mumford a couple of weeks ago during a family trip to Burnaby Village Museum. Mumford served in the British Merchant Marine during WWII. Joining up at age 17, he was shipwrecked twice: once by torpedo, once...
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Moshe Safdie spoke at TED in 2002, saying a few words about a number of his compositions, and concluding with some words on beauty and truth. It’s worth 15 minutes of your time to watch: The thing that strikes me most as I watched was how big he dreamed. Science centre not connected to...
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I’ve come to believe that marketing is easy. This perhaps somewhat astonishing idea came to me as I was leafing through some personal archives as I search for just the right items to place on my new portfolio site. Some of my company’s old brochures are in the box, and I remember the struggle...
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I love my iPhone, but it is not without its warts. One of them, unfortunately, is an extremely annoying “hanging email” issue: you want to check your email, the Mail app checks for mail … and never, ever finds any, or stops. This was happening for the past week, so I decided to delete...
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I finally put up a portfolio and resume site: JohnKoetsier.com: It’s one of the most elementary elements of personal SEO, and while I’ve had the domain for some time now, I’ve only now filled in a personal resume and started loading up a portfolio. The page is far too basic at the moment, but...
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Complaints are too easy – I like to blog raves as well as rants. I’ve just received excellent, above-and-beyond, unexpected great services from two class organizations: Blurb, and the Nielsen Norman Group. Blurb recently printed the book I did for my parents’ 50th wedding anniversary. A number of books arrived with scratches. I emailed...
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We went to my sister’s place yesterday where we were having a family party for my nephew Jacob, who was turning 14. The place was lousy with iPhones. I had one. My sister Maria had one. Her daughter Megan had one. My sister Renee had one. Her husband Jeroen had one. Naturally, since I’m...
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I’m sitting outside my Bellingham office for lunch, wondering if summer is starting to end … The wind is intense today, and some leaves are starting to fall. Here’s one that I captured with my iPhone’s camera before it touched down.
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I just let the kids watch Gever Tulley’s video 5 Dangerous Things You Should Let Your Kid Do. One of them is driving your car. Immediately Aidan, our 5 year old, asked if he could drive my car tomorrow. I said no, maybe on Saturday, though. Right away he went off to Teresa and...
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