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Honest Answers That Make Money

February 9, 2010
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I moved into a new house last weekend. I chose Shaw for phone, TV and internet for a variety of reasons, but primarily for the phone and internet as I work from home.
Today the node that powers my neigbourhood went down, taking my phone and internet with it. Since all my work is online, this was [...]

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Continuous Improvement – Personally

December 14, 2009
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In about 48 hours I’ll be getting on a plane and returning to the Great White North, which gives me cause to reflect on the past 3 1/2 months. I’ll be doing some more of that in the next few posts (as I’ll have a lot of time in airports to write them), but I’m [...]

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Prepared for Take-Off!

August 6, 2009

It’s been a busy and turbulent week.
On the plus side, Megan and I found out that our Irish work visa have been approved and are winging their way to us now. They should get here early next week. We’re heading back to Edmonton around the 22nd and we take flight on the 29th of [...]

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48 Things That Matter to Tom Peters

March 16, 2009

Tom Peters is one of the world’s more visible business management gurus. If you haven’t read one of his books yet, you really should. He’s also got a list of 48 Things the Matter, available as a free PDF. I’m sharing the whole list here, but I also wanted to do a little art. Here’s [...]

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Mike Rowe on Hard Work and Dirty Jobs

March 7, 2009

Last night I caught a great talk by Mike Rowe on Ted.com.  First, if you haven’t heard about TED, you need to go check it out. Some of the most amazing people on the entire planet speak there, and watching their talks is like crack. Watch one good one and you’ll be completely addicted. (Or [...]

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Back In The Great White North

February 20, 2009

I’m writing this on my iPod Touch at Chicago’s O’Hare airport. Amanda and I bumped our flight up because there’s supposed to be 6-8″ of snow tonight and I want to get to Edmonton for Grandpa’s birthday dinner tomorrow night. We managed to find an earlier flight to Seattle and the nice people at the [...]

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I’m a little busy

August 12, 2008

First, a quick apology for not posting very often lately.
Second, a propalytic apology, becuase the next week will be crazy. Here’s where I’ll be, in order:

The Kelowna Apple Triathalon. I’m one of two run directors, and we’ve been hugely busy. 2008 has a record number of participants, as well as the Nationals. We’ve also had [...]

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Kids can make $2,500/hour

March 13, 2008

Today at Enquiro we did a corporate challenge…Apprentice-Style. They split us into two teams of about 9 each, gave us some tickets to the Kelowna Rockets, and set us loose. The goal was to raise as much as possible for the charity of our choice. The only catch:we had to be in for the count [...]

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