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The city of Ottawa has been asking us to conserve water, or cut back on consumption as much as possible.  I’m sure you’ve seen / heard the ads – especially the ones in the summer about watering your lawn.  As it turns out, people were listening and actually did cut back on their water consumption. [...]

One of my last posts was about Fat Cyclist and his amazing fundraising efforts for both LIVESTRONG and World Bicycle Relief.  While he had amazing prizes that I’m sure helped his cause enormously, he still made the task of raising over $100K seem easy peasy – I mean he accomplished it in only a few [...]

It’s days like today that scare the hell out of me.  I’m sure everyone (at least those that live in Ottawa) has heard about the Ottawa police officer that was murdered today.  For me the scariest part is that this wasn’t an act of revenge or anything like that, but rather a random act against [...]

This is one of the coolest stories I’ve heard in a while.  The short(ish) version is this:  Elden, THE Fat Cyclist (you can read about him here) wrote up a post where he said (in jest) it was time for a career change and he decided that a pro cyclist sounded like a great job.  [...]

I saw this on Twitter today and thought it described most organizations perfectly.

An organization is like a tree full of monkeys, all on different limbs, at different levels. Some monkeys climbing up, some down. Monkeys on the top look down and see a tree full of smiling faces. The monkeys on the bottom look up [...]