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Hello. My name is Jonathan, and I want to welcome you to In the Limelight.
Someone once told me that I had a problem with authority. At first I was offended, but the more I thought about it, the more I had to admit it was true.
I do have a problem with authority. I think you should too.
I have always had a problem with being told what to do. It’s not because I’m disagreeable, I’m really a pretty easy going guy.
It’s because so often what people tell us to do is really stupid and doesn’t make sense. It doesn’t hold up to scrutiny and yet it’s often accepted by the masses.
We live in a world full of people that love to tell us about all of the things we can’t do, and all of the things we should do.
I say we all need to ask these people "why"?
What motivates people to hate others so much? I ask this question because it has recently become apparent to me that I am hated by a certain group of people for no other reason than because I have an opinion than differs from theirs. When I say hatred, I mean [...]
Well hello blog, it’s been a long time. I haven’t been sure what to do with you. I haven’t really known what direction to take you in for a while. I even considered deleting everything and starting over. You see, I had this idea that I wanted to turn my [...]
I have previously written about Landmark Education, first in an article in which I describe my initial reaction to being introduced to the Landmark Forum, and then shortly thereafter I wrote a piece in which I enthusiastically described what an amazing experience I found the Landmark Forum to be. I [...]
You know that old cliché saying that’s usually attributed to somebody’s grandpa? It goes something like this: “Used to be people understood the value of a dollar.” I’d like to update that saying a little bit for our modern age. Try this on: “It used to be people understood the [...]
I took this photo quite some time ago, and for some reason just left it sitting on my hard drive ever since. I came across it today and decided it was about time is got its chance to be seen, so here it is. :-)
My lovely fianceé is most fond of doing things that make me fearful for her life. Like sitting on the edges of decrepit railing-less bridges, or walking across narrow concrete walls in middle-of-nowhere, Hawaii. On this particular occasion, she thought it would be fun to go exploring a creepy ghost [...]
I’ll never forget the moment I heard those words. I was sitting in the back row, at a sales training seminar. I had already made up my mind that I was in the wrong place, training for the wrong job. But I had not yet found the courage to be [...]
Cloud computing is here to stay, that much is clear. But should you trust your precious data to the cloud? If you were to ask me that question my answer would be a resounding “NO!”. I believe that we are heading down a very dangerous path with cloud computing, and [...]
As human beings we are expert procrastinators and excuse makers. We will find nearly any reason to put things off. And we make those reasons sound really good. We will dress them up in clever language that let’s us convince ourselves (and others, if we possibly can) that it’s really [...]
I recently made the decision to rekindle my interest in art, more specifically, drawing with coloured pencils. As a result I found myself sorting through some old art supplies which had been in storage. As I was flipping through the pages of one of my sketch books, three pages fell [...]
My girlfriend and I recently took a road trip to celebrate our anniversary, and one of the towns we passed through isn’t even a town at all anymore. It’s a small ghost town in south-eastern BC that apparently was once one the the largest and most prosperous towns around during [...]
As I was putting around the house this morning I suddenly had the old saying, “it’s a labour of love” running through my mind. They kept popping up over and over, and I kept shrugging them off as just another random thought. It’s been a long week, and I have [...]
It’s been a while. Here’s why (warning: the majority of this article is off topic). I am writing this on a brand new Lenovo W520 mobile workstation. It’s a beautiful machine. It’s fast, quiet, has an amazing full HD screen, it’s loaded with ram, and the battery life is downright [...]
These days it seems that tolerance has become *the* most critical of all virtues. We are expected to tolerate everything, and if we don’t then it is a virtual guarantee that we will find ourselves on the receiving end of some harsh criticism by the politically correct crowd. But is [...]
I have been hard at work lately. Not only have I been hard at work writing new content for In The Limelight, I have also given it it’s most dramatic facelift ever, and fine tuned other elements of the site that you may or may not have noticed. However, by [...]
It might seem a bit odd to be publishing a post about new years resolutions when we are already well in May. But I have a confession to make: this is not a new post. I have been busy doing some behind the scene housekeeping here on In The Limelight, [...]
Some people will tell you that failure is a good thing because that is how we learn. I disagree. A failure may well lead us towards learning something, but that does not mean that failure is how we learn, only that it is possible to fail and still learn something. [...]
As a writer, I have no shortage of ideas. I know that might seem like an odd thing to say. You might be thinking I must be the luckiest writer in the world to have such an abundance of things to write about. After all, isn’t writers’ block the bane [...]
Time for another photo post. I decided to go looking through the archives again and I found this one of some traffic cones set up to block a street in downtown Vancouver. It’s an older photo of fairly mundane subject matter, but I am very pleased with the composition.
Can you trust your brain? It’s a more important question than you might think, and more importantly if you think you can out-think your brain, you are probably greatly mistaken. Say what??? Out-think your brain? That’s crazy talk isn’t it? Well yes. On the surface that seems like a silly [...]