University of Toronto – A course in bad ecommerce

As many of you know I’ve been taking courses in the University of Toronto’s Continuing Ed program. I’ve found a lot of the courses have helped a lot with my day job. This fall I’d like to take a Marketing course on Competitive Intelligence. Unfortunately the University of Toronto has “improved” its e-commerce process. Basically […]

Freshnews.ca v2

We launched the Freshnews.ca v2 interface today ( hard launch if anyone is following… ) , with a goal to be Canada’s Freshest Source for Canadian New. Roy Pereira has been heavily involved with the new design and will part of the management team going forward. The design provides the following: Cleaner look and easier […]

Lack of Focus

Over the weekend I was in Montreal and staying downtown at the W Hotel. If you’re familar with the W Montreal you know its very well positioned for walking around the city. Its also right around the corner from Royal Bank’s form there head office during the 1920s. I’ve been using Royal Bank for about […]

The Highland Yard

I’m in Minden, ON with my sister and her friend Megan for the Highland Yard.  They’ve decided run in the 5K race even though its currnetly 30C today. My sister has run in the race a few times but its normally 7.5K and this year they switched to the more popular 5K and 10K distances. […]

VoIP’s dirty secret? No Pizza for you!

I’ve been using Vonage as my home phone the past year and generally found the quality of connections to be acceptable. There are times when I can’t use it very effectively while downloading and it seems to have hard time making reliable connections to northern ontario. What has really surprised me recently is the number […]