How much does your data cost?
If you’re like me, and have a data plan for your Blackberry with one of Canada’s mobile carriers, you feel massively ripped off every month when you get your bill, especially if you roamed outside Canada or went over your monthly data limit. Tom Purves has plotted out just how bad this situation is in [...]
How I use LinkedIn
As I’ve mentioned before, I’m a big fan of LinkedIn. On occasion, people ask why and how I use it, so I started to jot down some notes about and ended up with what you see below. However, it really only takes a couple of minutes every few days — less time that it takes [...]
Removing contacts in LinkedIn
I use LinkedIn a lot, and find it of great benefit: I’ve had people contact me through LinkedIn about working with them, and I’ve used it to find people for the same reason. I have about 350 contacts, which gives me a network of over 1.5M people who I can search for and contact directly. As [...]
A webinar on how to give a webinar
I attend a lot of webinars (short for “web seminar”) since it’s a great way to get information on a product, or just hear a talk on a particular subject without leaving my desk. I also speak on a number of webinars, mostly those hosted by the integration portal that hosts my business blog. However, [...]
Getting friendly with women
I used to work for a software company in southern California, and eventually left because of the toxic corporate culture and politics, especially the old boys network that prohibited women from having any real impact in the company. Recently, they were acquired by a very large technology company that has their own particular unwanted level [...]
Talk to the breasts
Okay, this is definitely the funniest thing that I’ve read in ages, and written by a lawyer, no less: Ordinarily, when someone starts staring at my breasts, I assume that I’ve spilled something. After all, the girls are getting on in years. There are plenty of newer models out on the market for the lads [...]
Women in Technology day
This Thursday is Women in Technology day at the CASCON conference in Markham. It’s a long haul up there from downtown, but I’ll likely find a way to get there as it sounds pretty interesting: The IBM Women’s Leadership Council, the Centers for Advanced Studies (CAS), and our university partners would like to invite you [...]
Back to the old friends
The nice thing about coming home after a week or so away is meeting up with my old friends again. Like that pound of asparagus that I bought before I left. Oh well, at least the parts that hadn’t gone slimy made for a good lunch today, which is more than you can say for [...]
BlogHer Business ’07
I haven’t yet seen anyone from BlogHer create an Upcoming.org event for the BlogHer Business conference to be held in New York in March, so I did. As I mentioned previously, I’m unlikely to attend another general BlogHer conference, but a business-focussed one might work for me.
Shredding the past
Definitely a weird week. It’s the first full week that Damir’s lived here, so there have been a few mornings of me in my bathrobe saying goodbye to him at the door as he leaves for work in the morning — very suburban! However, since I work at home almost all the time, and he [...]
