May 3, 2007
I called Fido today to ask about data plans. The standard rate is 5 cents / KB = $51.20 / MB . To give you an idea, at mobile speeds (about twice the speed of a modem) you can download about 50 MB / hour.
April 28, 2007
A couple of the worst possible ways you can manage people: Ostrich mentality (a.k.a. Head in the sand): Refers to the "ignore it and it will go away" attitude.
April 16, 2007
Economic trends are notoriously hard to predict. Lately, I've been reading about (and seeing) some things that make me wonder if we've already entered a slow-down period.
April 9, 2007
Tom Purves has created a nice graph illustrating what I've suspected for a long time -- that Canada's wireless oligopolies are pricing services way out of line with what a competitive market would.
April 2, 2007
A common problem with software development project management is that most people don't really understand how it works. Programmers are often likened to construction workers.
March 15, 2007
I just read an article that summed up some common mistakes when starting a business that rung true to me. They mentioned the following (which I've put in the order I think is most important): Not focusing on the user...
March 11, 2007
I've created a web development summary chart comparing the major web application development platforms out there today.
February 18, 2007
Last week I closed two accounts at Bank of Montreal. The one account was a corporate chequing account I’d had with them for 4 years. The other account was opened when I was 13 years old.