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No such thing as a free appetizer

Melissa is blogging about our travels too! Check out her posts at mstockton.tumblr.com. Melissa and I have been living out of our backpacks for the past week or so as we play hopscotch from continent to continent. Now, after a few days in Casablanca, my internal clock has adapted and my mind is …

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Morocco bound

If I were to make a word cloud of all my discussions with people over the last year regarding my and Melissa's plans to live abroad, one question would be right in the middle in 100-point text: "Why Morocco?" Depending on the tone of the question — concerned, baffled, enthralled — …

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Goodbye, Reeder. Hello, MnmlRdr + Fluid.

Google Reader is no more, which has opened up the feed reader app scene to new ideas and business models. With the plethora of new feed readers out there, I won't get into a comparison of the different products on offer. After all, it has only been a month since Google Reader was shuttered. I'm …

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Flash, bam, alakazam

"Orange Colored Sky", originally recorded by Nat King Cole, is one of my favourite jazz classics. If you've never heard it, take a listen. Its lyrics provide an oddly fitting frame for the story I'm about to tell you... I was walking along, minding my business... I woke yesterday morning feeling …

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