Beyond the Rhetoric

I use my smartphone for just about everything. It’s there to check my email, update my Twitter, and confirm my appointment schedule. Since my freelance writing business is a one-man show, I don’t really need any enterprise-level infrastructure.
However, larger companies may appreciate the added functionality and utility of the Microsoft Exchange system. At the same [...]

Times are a-changing.
Growing up, I was largely told to stay away from people who had tattoos. I was told that these people lived on the fringes of society, belonged to gangs, or were otherwise caught up in no good. They’d be members of the Triad, for example, and I didn’t want to get mixed [...]

Part of the appeal of leading the dot com lifestyle is that I am not bound to a single location or a single schedule. This added flexibility allows me to continue running my freelance writing business from just about anywhere I have a reliable Internet connection. That’s why I’ve found that many of my vacations [...]

Maybe it’s because I was born and raised in Canada that I have a certain perspective on the matter. With the recent health care bill passing in the United States, it seemed like such a “duh” moment to me; everyone should have fair and equal access to universal health care. Even if it results in [...]

I guess you could say that I started from a rather fortunate position. When I decided to embark on this freelance writing journey, I had enough money saved up that I didn’t need a full-time income right away. It also helped that the startup costs were remarkably minimal, because I already had a computer from [...]