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The Power of Word Of Mouth

In 1989 fresh out of university I started a  business with a college buddy.  I remember those early days fondly.  Our business only had a handful of employees.  We worked long hours for very little but we had a great time.  We started out recycling / remanufacturing...

Inspiration

Almost a year ago I wrote a post called “Dream Like A Child”.  I watched a video today that captured the sentiment of my post in much more elegant way. Take a look: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6MhAwQ64c0]  

Cool (And Smart) New Google things

In the last few days Google has announced some really cool things.  The most significant is that Google is leveraging their search engine dominance to give their Google Profiles (see mine here – Brendan’s Google Profile ) So here is what Google is doing,  They have...

Time: Google Giveth and Taketh Away

I am a big advocate of Google Docs. The collaboration, sharing and simplicity of “one document” are brilliant – at least to me. So brilliant that I have been coercing anyone I interact with to use the tool. Bragging about all the things thag Google gives you ....

Dream Like A Child

Every once in a while I have a random rambling thought.  I think I will start publishing them, here is a recent one. I have five children ranging in age from brand new to 17 so I have a lot of exposure to the young mind.  The vivid conviction with which little...

Getting to Graphing Social Patterns East

Finally made it to GSP (Graphing Social Patterns) East in Washington. Jeff and I were supposed to arrive Sunday night. The hot weather sparked a thunderstorm in Toronto so we couldn’t land and had to to on to Ottawa. The Ottawa airport was overwhelmed with incoming...