Archive for the 'Miscellanea' Category
Saturday, July 1st, 2006
To all my fellow Canadians at home and abroad. Have a proper beer and have fun with some friends today on Canada’s Birthday.
For those of you from other places you can read the background on our National birthday from the government or the Wikipedia version.
All the best!
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Saturday, June 17th, 2006
After a number of months and a lot of client work I have decided to put the SmashingRed Blog back into action.
I will be revising the categories segregating two category sections on the SmashingRed site that will make it easier for people to find articles and news on the site.
Please give me a hand [...]
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Wednesday, March 8th, 2006
I want to announce the first post of my new blog. As it is yet to be named, I am seeking entries for a name for this new blog. There are prizes being offered for submissions. See the post for the rules and to enter.
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Friday, March 3rd, 2006
It’s been obvious that I have been missing in action for three weeks. I have been working on projects, the business and the future of SmashingRed.
In the next few weeks I will be posting more here as well as developing a new home for my thoughts about business, learning to be a true entrepreneur, [...]
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Monday, February 6th, 2006
Author, marketer, and “Agent of Change”, Seth Godin is in Toronto and can’t find his hole — um…er the Ethernet port. We’ll I am sure he has found it by now since he has just placed a challenge on his blog to anyone who can correctly guess the location of the Ethernet port in his [...]
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Sunday, January 29th, 2006
Seth Godin is on fire this year. Check out his latest eBook Flipping the Funnel. His announcement post on it explains it better than I could.
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Sunday, January 29th, 2006
Tag four people and spread the love. I was tagged by Julian Rickards.
Four jobs I’ve had in my life
There are actually about twenty. I often say that I have a Chinese Food Menu for a resume. Lots of choice. It is probably more like the list of items on an all-you-can-eat buffet since some of [...]
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Thursday, January 19th, 2006
Call me a cheap bastard or an intellectual socialist, but I can’t seem to swallow the idea that I should be paying to read a research paper that was so prominently marketed to news agencies from a university study. After reading Seth’s post the other day on a story about a study entitled, “Attention web [...]
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Monday, January 16th, 2006
Venture capitalists don’t usually interest me but I got turned onto Guy Kawasaki after a post by Seth Godin about the fact that the former Apple man and venture capitalist had finally started a blog.
This is way more than a blog. Guy is putting his whole philosophy down there. Each post is an incredibly thoughtful [...]
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Tuesday, December 13th, 2005
Sounds like Ontario is the likely place to hold a Web Conference — at least for Canadians wanting to meet in the middle. Mr. Kim Siever over at hotpepper.ca mentioned that he has received feedback that the best place for a Canadian Web Dev and Design Conference might be in Southwestern Ontario (The Golden Horseshoe).
I [...]
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