by Brian Garside | Jan 8, 2020 | About Me
Every year I post a review/resolutions blog post, usually within the first week of the new year. I look at what I had said I would do the year before, and I set out some goals for the coming year. Take care of my healthTake care of our financial healthSuccession plan...
by Brian Garside | Feb 6, 2019 | About Me
My little sister’s husband passed away on Thursday January 31st. I got a call at 7 in the morning from my mom, but my phone was in the basement and I missed it. Char missed a second call, and as I got to my phone my mom’s voice was on the other end saying...
by Brian Garside | Jan 11, 2019 | About Me
Each year I post a year in review/resolutions blog post. This site is my journal, and I use it to keep track on what past me has done. Review of 2018, here’s what I said. Get in shapeContinue building NorthIQBuild a second saas productBe consistent with Content...
by Brian Garside | Jun 21, 2018 | Internet
I wrote a guide about this about five years ago – Ruby Newbies – My Ruby on Rails Recipe – but in the meantime, life has changed. We’re now on OSX High Sierra (about to introduce Mojave, so this will be obsolete in a couple of months), and...
by Brian Garside | Feb 3, 2018 | About Me
There was a time, where I was kind of a big deal. I’ve loved wrestling my whole life, it’s been a close one/two between wrestling in comics. My buddy Ryan once walked into my bedroom in college where I had wrestling playing on TV, and I was drawing comics....
by Brian Garside | Jan 18, 2018 | About Me, Business
Every year I write a blog post that’s about a review of the previous year, and goals for the current year. This post is one of the few posts I write every year that is for an audience of one. They’re for future me, and I post them publicly so I have some...
by Brian Garside | Dec 20, 2017 | Business
Through the last 12 years I have had four different business banking accounts with RBC. The first two accounts were prompted by partners who had good experiences with RBC. In both cases setting up the account caused us problems, but in both cases we were...
by Brian Garside | Jun 4, 2017 | Movies and TV
Wonder Woman is a good movie that suffers from some of the typical issues with DC Comics movies, namely a weak third act and a villain who is simultaneously overpowered and not very well realized. Overall it’s a good film, and is the best DC Cinematic Universe...
by Brian Garside | May 17, 2017 | General
Back in the late 90’s, I was “TSN.ca’s Darkside” who wrote “Tales from the Darkside” for the second most popular section on TSN.ca…which at the time was tsn.ca/wrestling. I built that bad boy from the ground up, and wrote a...
by Brian Garside | May 10, 2017 | Our Family
As our kids have gotten older, we’ve tried to take an annual trip with the kids to make some memories that will last a lifetime. We’ve done a Disney Cruise, a week at a cottage in Kingston, a trip to Las Vegas, and this year we decided we’d do a week...
