Ya Gotta Know When To Fold Them

I was thinking the other day that most of my postings are quite vague. I usually do that on purpose, but I thought it was worth a mention on my website and I don't want to hide some facts about my life. Sure, these are facts that are well known, but if anyone were to read this site, they might actually not understand a whole lot of what I am speaking about.

I have always thought that the art of writing should always come from the heart and not the head. That is always for later. So, I will now write with the most heart I have written with in the entire writing I have done on the Internet.

Many people have asked me in the last few days since I found out that I was moving away:

"Why are you moving, Shane? What brought this on?"

Well, I had always said, for years, that I was born in Victoria, and I would end up dying here. That remains to be seen, but I expect it will come true. Victoria is not a bad place. But, I know that for the last year, it has become some place that I don't think I need to be at this point in my life. There are so many things I can experience elsewhere and I hope to make the most of it. I need to stretch out and expand my own horizons before I realize I am 40 years old and wonder where my life has gone. Now, my reasons...

About Me

Shane Birley is a blogger, huge geeky nerd, web developer, poet, and creative writer based in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. He is a partner at Left Right Minds, a web development, arts management, business blogging and on line marketing company.

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What else do I do? I talk out loud, record it, and post it on line. I chatter about all kinds of things. Some of the things are nerdy, some professional, and some of them are very much NSFW. Why? Because do them for myself and my non-work life. You can be the judge.

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I do a little traveling here and there for technology conferences and what not. Here are the ones I am going to next or have attended recently.

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