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Thursday, December 31, 2009
Fredericton Transit 2009 Route Changes
Seen on Lamespotting Fredericton Blog There weren’t any changes from 2008/09 to 2009/10. Sadly, they weren’t even able to designate one route as being accessible. Since I have nothing to compare to from last year, I’ll compare to 1999. The good people at archive.org provide us with an old copy of the city’s web site: http://web.a
Sunday, December 27, 2009
Dave McClure: How to pitch a VC
From the Nimble Theory Blog Dave McClure - How to Pitch a VC (aka Startup Viagra: How to Give a VC a Hard-On)
Saturday, December 26, 2009
David Thorne Driving His Landlord Crazy | Standard Madness
A stumble too late! Just last week, I was quite upset, a person accused me of things that i did not do, it was very frustrating.
I wish I had seen this post first, it would have made for a much more interesting conversation!
Friday, December 25, 2009
Merry Christmas
From Will it Change You Blog Hey all, Just a quick note to say have a great Christmas & stay safe this season. Have loads of fun & celebrate life!
Thursday, December 24, 2009
Failure to communicate: Road Construction
Seen on Lamespotting Fredericton Blog Delays due to construction can be quite annoying. Seeing spray paint on the road in front of your house can be unnerving as you can only wonder what’s going to happen. If you live in Moncton, there is a complete list of projects that are due to be completed this construction season. In Fredericton, you [...]
Tuesday, December 22, 2009
Remembering Jim Rohn
The world lost a great leader and a great man this week with the passing of Jim Rohn. Jim was a giant in our industry, but more than that he was someone that you were grateful you could follow, and someone who made you believe you could become and achieve more than you ever thought [...]
Sunday, December 20, 2009
Email: The Variable Reinforcement Machine
From the Coding Horror Blog
How often do you check your email per day?
Does checking your email make you more productive or less productive?
Oh, sure, we delude ourselves into thinking we're being extra-productive by obsessively checking and responding to our email, but in reality we're attending too frequently to our own desire for gratification and
How often do you check your email per day?
Does checking your email make you more productive or less productive?
Oh, sure, we delude ourselves into thinking we're being extra-productive by obsessively checking and responding to our email, but in reality we're attending too frequently to our own desire for gratification and
The smartest person in the world is Michael Tienken - not
So one day, just for fun I googled the Smartest Person in the World, and the top number one result for the smartest person was Mic Tiekin.
He's not really the worlds smartest person though. But I did find it very interesting that he managed to get number one rankings for the text of The Smartest Person in the World.
He claims to be an SEO guru, yet his PageRank is only 3 for the text of The Smartest Person in the world, so I was curious what would happen if I added his site to my free site for the worlds smartest person
So now, if someone does a specific search for the smartest person in the world, what would happen?
Friday, December 18, 2009
The difference between consultants and product developers
Seen on Lamespotting Fredericton Blog After seeing this article in Fredericton’s Daily Gleaner, I couldn’t help but give myself the old facepalm. Do people around here have short memories? Do we not remember what happened to all the other e-learning companies around here? We have a few that remain, but they are only shells of their former se
Thursday, December 17, 2009
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Wednesday, December 16, 2009
Confusion Information
From the Nimble Theory Blog
Jessica Hagy at Indexed, says it perfectly:
Jessica Hagy at Indexed, says it perfectly:
Sunday, December 13, 2009
Blatantly Honest Responses to âGiving Up on Life'
From Will it Change You Blog credit: h.koppdelaney A few months back I wrote a post titled Giving Up on Life as a response to a search string that someone had used to visit here: “when it's time to give up on life”. I’d like to share with you a reader’s response to that particular post. From Tom: Giving up seems to be by [.
Friday, December 11, 2009
Teaching Kids to Respond vs. React
This question came in from a Success 2.0 Webcast
"How did you kids learn how to RESPOND rather than REACT?" Shoshannah
Shoshannah, we kids learned by example, and by reminder! I think most people, especially when they are kids, have a tendency to react when things don't go their way. I can remember numerous occasions growing up when Dad would get "bad" news that would impact our family plans. It could have been rain on a vacation day, or a delayed flight, or whatever, but every time Dad always immediately focused on what we could do. I didn't realize it at the time, but now I see that he was showing us that sometimes negative things happen, but those things don't have to ruin our day, and we have that choice.
"How did you kids learn how to RESPOND rather than REACT?" Shoshannah
Shoshannah, we kids learned by example, and by reminder! I think most people, especially when they are kids, have a tendency to react when things don't go their way. I can remember numerous occasions growing up when Dad would get "bad" news that would impact our family plans. It could have been rain on a vacation day, or a delayed flight, or whatever, but every time Dad always immediately focused on what we could do. I didn't realize it at the time, but now I see that he was showing us that sometimes negative things happen, but those things don't have to ruin our day, and we have that choice.
Zig Ziglar's Key Messages
This question came in from a Success 2.0 Webcast "Of all of your powerful messages, which one do you think is the most important?â Armand Armand, it is very hard to narrow Dad's key messages down to one. I will give you several that always come up when you ask Dad about this. Zig Ziglar’s Key Messages: “You can [...]
Sunday, December 06, 2009
9 Ways Marketing Weasels Will Try to Manipulate You
From the Coding Horror Blog
I recently read Predictably Irrational.
It's a fascinating examination of why human beings are wired and conditioned to react irrationally. We human beings are a selfish bunch, so it's all the more surprising to see how easily we can be manipulated to behave in ways that run counter to our own self-interest.
This isn't
I recently read Predictably Irrational.
It's a fascinating examination of why human beings are wired and conditioned to react irrationally. We human beings are a selfish bunch, so it's all the more surprising to see how easily we can be manipulated to behave in ways that run counter to our own self-interest.
This isn't
New Direction for Will It Change You
From Will it Change You Blog credit: Sam Ilic Photography Hi All, Well I’ve decided to take a bit of a new direction with this blog. In addition to some fresh posts & ideas, one of the biggest changes is the home page design. Essentially, I’d like the home page to be a representation of the latest posts from some of the best [...]
Friday, December 04, 2009
If It Looks Corporate, Change It
From the Coding Horror Blog
Are you familar with happy talk?
If you're not sure whether something is happy talk, there's one sure-fire test: if you listen very closely while you're reading it, you can actually hear a tiny voice in the back of your head saying "Blah blah blah blah blah...."
A lot of happy talk is the kind of self-congratulatory promo
Are you familar with happy talk?
If you're not sure whether something is happy talk, there's one sure-fire test: if you listen very closely while you're reading it, you can actually hear a tiny voice in the back of your head saying "Blah blah blah blah blah...."
A lot of happy talk is the kind of self-congratulatory promo
Thursday, December 03, 2009
Have You Met Your Dog, Patches?
From the Coding Horror Blog
The Gamasutra article Dirty Coding Tricks is a fantastic read. One part of it in particular rang true for me.
Consider the load of pain I found myself in when working on a conversion of a 3D third person shooter from the PC to the original PlayStation.
Now, the PS1 has no support for floating point numbers, so we were doi
The Gamasutra article Dirty Coding Tricks is a fantastic read. One part of it in particular rang true for me.
Consider the load of pain I found myself in when working on a conversion of a 3D third person shooter from the PC to the original PlayStation.
Now, the PS1 has no support for floating point numbers, so we were doi
Tuesday, December 01, 2009
The first rule of fight club is...
From the Nimble Theory Blog While this could be me after the first fight club, it's actually my eye after removal of a skin cancer. Can't say I could see much out of it. Unfortuanely, it was like this for about three days before it abated. We'll see how others look after the next Fight Club meetup. Reminder: Fight Club is on Twitter. If you're a
