Just Get Over it

I have a couple of pieces in the Toronto Star this week, one is on my colonoscopy.

Yep. Ick. But the fact is it's a necessary evil. And as a freelancer, hey, anytime you can turn lemons into lemondade is a good day. Having to prep and endure a colonoscopy isn't fun, but it's all's well, that ends well when you can spin it into a paying yarn!

And so it begins......

News that Montreal's La Presse will abandon paper and go entirely digital within three to five years is a bit of a shocker.

The shock is not that they are abanding paper but that they are the largest newspaper to make the announcement.

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If I only had a rant

It must be that fickle finger of fate again.

Here I am, newly launched website up and running, a lull in my day grinding out billable hours or at least, words. What better moment to shift gears and rant?

Cool! Except there's nothing I really want to rant about.

Oh, sure there's the new iPad2, but its been done to death already. Sure, I want a pad device. I think it will fit my lifestyle and, more to the point, it is the future of journalism itself. And if journalism has a future, then ergo, so do I.

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