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Blame Canada

I have a little secret. Well, more than one, but there is only one that I'm going to share today. By day, I'm an average (below average some would say) C# coder from the Great White North. Like most Canadians, I'm pretty quiet, and relatively polite.

I spend my days consulting for local companies. I take the odd trip to code camps (Victoria, Calgary, Phoenix to name a few) and user groups to speak about varioblamecanada2us things - TDD and Mono in particular. I even blog occasionally about various things related to .NET developing, but nothing to offensive because that wouldn't be... Canadian (eh).

And yet, by night, after the samoyed has been walked and the kids are put in to bed, I fire up my RSS feed aggregator and start making notes on so me of the things I read. All kinds of notes. Not always nice notes. Some of these notes get blogged. Now, how can I blog these not-nice things and still maintain the facade of a nice, quiet Canadian? Why, I use a nom-de-plume (yes, here in Canada we have French too). Yes, today I confess to the greatest mystery in modern times.

No, I was not on the grassy knoll on November 22, 1963.

Even more diabolical: I am the Alt.Net Pursefight blogger. Yes, I am claiming to be the diabolical genius behind that blog. For those who were/are offended by the blog, you now can now Blame Canada for your displeasure.

Apologizes to Scott Bellware, who I understand is living in fear now due to everybody thinking it's him. The next time I see him I shall have to make amends with a bottle of Laphroaig. I'm sure that the presence of this single-malt will cause the Igloo Coder to crawl out of the woodwork, but this is the price of penance.


Posted Tue, Apr 1 2008 8:48 AM by Kyle Baley
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Joshua Flanagan wrote re: Blame Canada
on Tue, Apr 1 2008 9:55 AM

Wow, it all makes perfect sense...

Except... do they celebrate April Fool's Day in Canada and/or the Bahamas?

Brendan Tompkins wrote re: Blame Canada
on Tue, Apr 1 2008 10:26 AM

Impossible!  I'm the Alt.Net Pursefight blogger

Bil Simser wrote re: Blame Canada
on Tue, Apr 1 2008 10:31 AM

I thought I was?

Sean Chambers wrote I must admit
on Tue, Apr 1 2008 10:35 AM

Even though I haven't been blogging alot recently on LosTechies, doesn't mean I haven't been

Mark Lennox wrote re: Blame Canada
on Tue, Apr 1 2008 11:01 AM

I'm spartacus!

Spartacus wrote re: Blame Canada
on Tue, Apr 1 2008 12:51 PM

I'm Spartacus!

alberto wrote re: Blame Canada
on Tue, Apr 1 2008 1:39 PM

You are just a fool. Happy birthday! :P

Sergio Pereira wrote The fun continues
on Tue, Apr 1 2008 1:49 PM

By now you either realized that my last post was a joke, not even written by me, or you are not even

Community Blogs wrote Sorting Out The Pursefights
on Tue, Apr 1 2008 7:38 PM

Okay, by now all of you with a few ounces of grey matter have figured out that today's earlier post

Conspiracy++ | Caffeinated Coder wrote Conspiracy++ | Caffeinated Coder
on Tue, Apr 1 2008 11:46 PM

Pingback from  Conspiracy++ | Caffeinated Coder

Scott Bellware wrote re: Blame Canada
on Wed, Apr 2 2008 2:23 AM

If I lived in fear, do you think I would have shaken the tree so much for so long?

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