The Science of Owwwww ⇒

November 26th, 2014 by

If I ever went back to school, I'd study behavioural psychology. I just love learning ​why​ we do things, especially when our decisions aren't rational. And how we continue doing the non-rational behaviour when there is so much good information out there.

I also love learning when science contradicts the "normal" or expected outcome. This happens a lot when your start to learn about your body and pain. Relevant for me as I always have something going wrong,...

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A Working Man...finally ⇒

November 1st, 2014 by

I left InTouch at the end of April after much thought. My plan was give ample notice (2 months), take a few months off in the summer, and start work when the kids went back to school. Life, however, did not work out that way.

Instead, I was asked to leave a few days after I gave notice. The good news was that I could be very active in meeting cool companies. The bad news is that I was expecting a tad more income to tide us over for the summer.

My challenge in finding a job was that I...

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Minor Site Updates ⇒

October 26th, 2014 by

Some additions/fixes on my site:

  • RSS feed is fixed. It wasn't showing up (also using the wonderful Feedpress service)
  • Search added. I needed to find an old post and couldn't so added search to my site via the Bloodhound Add-on
  • Nav bar is now responsive. When I added the search bar I discovered it disappeared when I looked on my iPhone. This required learning about media-queries and more about Bootstrap!

Update: moved files around to simplify my base code. Performance is worse now,...

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