It’s my last day here at Tucows, and at the risk of sounding like a film critic, I’m going to have to say that the feeling is bittersweet. Fittingly enough, this song is running through my head:
Can’t see the video? Click here.
And I can’t mention that song without making reference to the most painful cover [...]
Category Archives: Work
It’s the Final Countdown!
November 20, 2007 – 12:04 pm
Not Yet!
November 19, 2007 – 5:28 pm
A number of people have been emailing me and asking when I’m going to write about my new job. If you really need to know now, feel free to ask me offline and I’ll tell you. If you can wait, I’ll start posting about it next week — my first day is Monday, November 26th.
Although [...]
Danger at Work
November 19, 2007 – 12:42 pm
Here’s a set of amusing photos about danger at work that I found thanks to my friend, Miss Fipi Lele. Click on them to see the set at full size and better quality:
Click to photos to see them at full size and quality.Images courtesy of Miss Fipi Lele.
Leaving Tucows
November 15, 2007 – 12:00 am
It’s official: I handed my two weeks’ notice to Tucows on Monday. After four and a half years as their developer relations guy, during which time I held two titles (Technical Evangelist, and before that, the less wieldy Technical Community Development Coordinator), worked in two departments and occupied 5 different desks spread across two floors, [...]
12 Vacation Days?!
August 31, 2007 – 12:54 pm
Click the comic to see it on its original page.
I’ve posted the xkcd comic above in honour of the boss’ just telling me that I’ve managed to accrue an extra 12 vacation days and that I should plan on taking them sometime soon.
Hmmm…
How to Ride Your Bike to Work
August 29, 2007 – 12:44 pm
This is how I get to work most days.
Over at The Sietch Blog: an essay titled How to Ride Your Bike to Work. It’s cheap, safe and easier than you think!
Living the Dream
August 29, 2007 – 10:19 am
(This article was cross-posted to Global Nerdy.)
What Did You Want to Be When You Grew Up?
According to a Workopolis poll of Canadians, more than 80% of Canadians aren’t doing the job they dreamed of doing when they were children.
Possible dream jobs.
The poll posed these two questions to adults:
What was your dream [...]
The “Ghetto Dude” Email Gaffe
July 22, 2007 – 11:45 am
Evon Reid, who was called the “Ghetto Dude” in a mis-forwarded email from the Ontario government. Photo taken from his Facebook page.
It’s insult added to injury: not only did poor Evon Reid find out that he wasn’t accepted for a job by way of an accidental email forwarding, he was referred to in [...]
23 Ways to Hack Your Work
June 14, 2007 – 12:11 pm
Photo by Mary-Cakes / Desiree. Click to see it on its original Flickr page.
Over at the blog Dumb Little Man (whose slogan is “Tips for Life”), there’s an entry titled Hack Your Work: 23 Ways to Get Ahead, Work Less and Achieve More with some good ideas. Here’s the intro:
It’s something [...]
Scenes From a Job Interview
April 22, 2003 – 8:16 pm
Earlier today, I had a job interview with a spiffy-cool company whose name I won’t mention just yet. The parts of the interview that would be the most interesting to most people are, thankfully, the bloggable parts:
Employee 1: Hey, Joey! Welcome to {Spiffy-cool company whose name I won’t mention just yet}.
Me: [...]
