February 1st, 2008
20000 km, $7000, 7 days and 4 tons of CO2
… or, "Making Event Attendance Count"
Late last year, I gave a keynote at paired Finnish conferences MindTrek and OpenMind. While the events were well worth attending, afterwards I spent a few bleak hours thinking about the actual costs of my attendance. If I had left Canada just for these events (which, thankfully, I [...]
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June 18th, 2007
Confiscated Knitting Needles
It had to happen eventually… when I was going through security at the Helsinki airport today, they took away my Addi Turbo circular needles as being too dangerous to bring on the airplane.
The needles have made it through American, Canadian, Dutch, German and Norwegian security - who would have thought that the Fins would have [...]