They're all Grampa to her

Having two sets of grandparents is confusing enough, but it's confounded by Ana's inability to differentiate between the words "grandpa" and "grandma". So we've got "grampa" (grandpa McGrath), "grampa" (grandma McGrath), "grampa" (grandpa Loeppky), and finally, "grampa" (grandma Loeppky). She loves them all: they're all grampa to her.

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Video: Rob wows us on the guitar

My latest video: Good friend Rob wows us on the guitar, while wife Laura teaches Sammy how to Salsa.

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Edge-to-Edge marathon

My dad and my brother are running the Edge-to-Edge marathon this year. I gotta run me a marathon someday too.

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Why does everyone keep getting cancer?

Why does everyone keep getting cancer?

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Cheap printers

In 1994 I bought my first black and white laser printer for $2400. In 2001 I bought my second black and white laser printer for $649. It was much faster. And today, I'm buying a color laser for $379, and it's faster still. I expect in another 5 years, they will be paying us to take home laser printers.
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Work is a slippery slope

Gina told me today that working after 6pm or on weekends in unacceptable. She is very right. Work is a slippery slope, especially when you find it engrossing. I have been caught in its poisonous tentacles for the last 10 days. I will have to cut off its legs.
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Imbalance

30 years ago, the CEO of the average corporation made 30 to 35 times the wage of the lowest paid factory floor worker. Today, it's 1000 times.
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Imbalance

The 3 richest men in the world have a combined net worth equal to the gross domestic product of the world's 48 poorest countries.
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About

I'm an intranet consultant living in Nelson, BC. My company is One Intranets Inc. I'm the co-creator of ThoughtFarmer, social intranet software that powers enterprise intranets in Microsoft environments. I've been consulting on web and intranet projects since 1995 with a particular emphasis on interface design, information architecture and usability analysis.

I live with my wife, Gina, and our three children, Ana (age 7), Sam (age 5), and Reuben (age 1). Gina is my best friend and the absolute bestest wife a man could ever find. Ana is the most hospitable and intuitive 7-year old you'll ever meet. Sam accosts strangers on the street and engages them in deep conversation. Reuben walks from room to room and creates disasters, washing his hands in the toilet, lifting cats by the tail and eating things he finds in the kitchen garbage.

When I'm not working I'm playing with my family: golf, swimming, snorkeling, hockey, skiing and extreme travel. We're currently escaping winter with a 4-month stint in St. Lucia, West Indies.