XKCD LOL
Funny, just last night we were debating whether it was Hitler or Mussolini who made the trains run on time (I backed Mussolini, on the premise that Germans likely didn’t need any little Austrian to teach them how to make trains run on time): Do yourself a big favour and add xkcd.com to your feed [...]
Where are all the TorCamp men?
Last night, we had the first Toronto Girl Geek dinner, which drew about 40 people with only one brave male soul amongst us. The rules of attending a Girl Geek dinner are simple: if you are male, you must bring a female with you or be brought by a female. You don’t have to be [...]
Zipcar gets a bit cheaper
Zipcar, which I have started using in the past couple of months and greatly prefer over the time-wasting experience of a regular rental car, has just dropped their rates in Toronto: it’s now $10.50/hour or $69/day for their baseline cars, or $12.50/$87.50 if you want to drive a Mini. This price drop puts them well [...]
Repatriating my business blog
A year and a half ago, I was invited to move my blog over to a site that was more of an old media site, but covered the technology space that I do: business process management, service-oriented architecture, business intelligence and other integration technologies. However, I’m blogging about all sorts of other things now, so [...]
Tales from the swarm
I don’t usually break the confidence of the swarm, but I just checked the history logs for the conversation that went on in our TorCamp group chat on Skype last night to find a few of them discussing the latest target of their website design scrutiny: Swarmie #1: ack! i just had a look at [...]
links for 2007-06-21
Small Is Essential | TIME 37signals recent coverage in Time magazine — bravo! (tags: software web2.0)
Canada Customs gets weird
When I arrived in Toronto from Boston today, the customs process was a bit odd. Only gone for three days, I had no checked luggage and nothing to declare, and I filled out the customs form as usual: checked “business” as the purpose of my trip, the “no” to all the questions about if I [...]
My first Priceline experience
Thanks to Jevon MacDonald and Priceline, I’m in the Hilton at Boston Logan airport for $65/night: regular price about 4 times that. First time that I’ve used Priceline, I was always a bit wary of the “name your price” option, but when I specified the area and the minimum number of stars, I realized that [...]
links for 2007-06-18
Priceline and Hotwire Forum, Winning Bids, and Bidding Help Forum of winning Priceline bids to help get the best price when you “name your price” (tags: travel) BiddingForTravel.com – Message Board – ezboard.com Forum of winning Priceline bids to help get the best price when you “name your price” (tags: travel) How to beat Priceline [...]
links for 2007-06-16
YouTube – Toronto Transit Camp’s Welcoming Circle The opening circle from TransitCamp; I’m looking for ideas on using Open Space in a corporate setting (tags: unconference) Unconference – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Collection of links to unconference and open space references (tags: unconference)
