Esteban Hernández was stirring pasta, an old radio quietly crackling some cumbia rhythms from a nearby shelf in the small kitchen, when he heard the door of ...

I was talking to a friend about how he’s unhappy working at his company. Why, I asked? They apparently hired a new junior developer who wasn’t a strong coder...

When I arrived at the theatre, the line was out the door. Correction: lines - one going left, the other to the right. Out the door, around the sizeable front...

How do you take the measure of a page? Of a block of fictive text? Words, words, punctuation, story. Do you count, block by chunk Tolstoy style, merit based ...

It’s easy, you know. It’s all Flashdance, pick-up and play, sudden success easy - that’s the American Dream. The funny part is that it is as un-American as s...

I recently had a client that wanted me to help them make their site "better." After I took a look at the site and code, we sat down and I was very blunt: "Yo...

About a year ago, my computer keyboard broke and I started looking for a new one. Those of you who know me could have predicted what happened - I fell down t...

123 kilometers. 4 hours and 17 minutes. 880 meters climbed. 2600 calories burned. All done on less than 30 minutes of sleep in the past 24 hours in five...

There's this moment that happens on a fixed gear bike. You're motoring along at pace and suddenly you feel it. It's subtle, at first, and you're unsure of wh...

What is a bicycle? Two wheels. A frame. Pedals. A saddle. A handlebar. And freedom. The bicycle, whose iconic outline is recognized almost everywhere on ou...

I'd always enjoyed writing and so, when I was 16, I took a creative writing course. The final project was to write a short story based on a newspaper article...

The future is here!!! That's how I want to start this because, despite constant use of my laptop, tablet and smartphone, never has a piece of technology ever...

I'm about to turn thirty. This generally puts people in a pensive mood, folds their thoughts to a reflective bent and, soon, questions about the self, the fu...

How strong is the lonely cyclist? Riding at morning, at noon and at night. From a distance, he seems nothing more than a shrivelled, hunchbacked creature wit...

It has become my custom to, four or five times a year, ride out with the sole intention of meeting the Man with the Hammer. The Man with the Hammer is part a...