Mmmmm….breakfast. Who doesn’t enjoy a nice hot cup of tea, toast with peanut butter, and a banana on the side? At least that’s what I have every morning. And yes, this useless preamble allows me to segue into my latest article on nutritious kid’s breakfasts. It’s a short piece but the artwork is nicely laid out in a groovy ’70s inspired way. Good job art department!

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Nothing like a slip-up in bullet list formatting to completely change meaning. Check out this hilarious example from failblog.org:

Now that’s a major copy-editing FAIL.

I haven’t blogged in a while, and as Uncle Argyle says “Well that’s something we shall have to remedy, isn’t it” (That quote is from Braveheart, just in case you haven’t seen one of the greatest movies ever made). Unfortunately I’m keeping it short today – here are two of my articles from alive magazine’s July and August issues respectively. Click on the thumbnails to view them.

The first article is a couple of shorts on the nine most vulnerable areas on planet Earth and toxic toys. The second is an article on why recycling religiously doesn’t necessarily make you a saint.  

It’s been about four months since my classmates and I graduated from the Print Futures Professional Writing Program. If you’re serious about your craft and are thinking of attending this two-year diploma program, I heartily encourage you to go for it. I love to write and I love getting paid to do it even more. But don’t kid yourself – writing well works up a mental sweat for every writer, whether oozing with talent or not.

I thought I’d acknowledge some of my graduated colleagues who have websites online. The reason most of the sites on the list below are not on my blogroll is because they’re static pages. In other words, they’re not regularly updated – which is a little unfortunate in my opinion because I love to read what people are up to in the minutiae of their lives and enjoy reading the blogs of people I know. I almost never check in with static pages. Facebook’s great, but is more like a sophisticated telegraphing machine than a home you can personalize and make your own.

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I thought it was high time for an update on the first two weeks of my contract. As I alluded to previously, the project I’m working on right now involves the design of a new phone. It’s a complex system with many components, and is rather hush-hush at the moment so I can’t really elaborate on it. Thus far, much of the system behaviour has been decided upon verbally, which is where I come in. Through interviews with the project manager and the software engineers, and by gleaning information from what is known as a state table (a map of the information architecture), I’ve been putting together engineering specifications for a product that does not exist yet.

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