From the monthly archives:

March 2008

How not to get an Interview

by Rob on March 28, 2008

We`re currently interviewing for salespeople at Virtual IT. What a joy. So many people think they can sell, and perhaps they can. But selling yourself if the first step. Here`s the exact text of an exchange I had with one candidate. Needless to say, they didn`t get the interview. My first mail to her: Good [...]

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I’m going to try to update the Real Estate section of the blog at least bi-weekly, now that I’m actually a property owner again. On March 3rd, I closed on a triplex in Hamilton. The circumstances surrounding the purchase were complicated, but the short version is I was quickly going to need somewhere to live, [...]

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From 1995 until 2001, I had the pleasure of building and owning one of Hamilton, Ontario’s largest independent ISPs – NETinc. Yes, back in the old days, before high speed. It was high speed, in fact, that was the major factor in us shutting the doors in 2001 – I’m a margin hound, and when [...]

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Trackbacks…. an experiment

by Rob on March 26, 2008

I read a bunch of blogs daily, and comment on them quite a bit. But I’ve never used WordPress’s Trackback feature. I just read a great article at Problogger which describes how to use them. I’m using this as a blatant test to see if it works. Sorry for the commentspam, Problogger!

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BMW in the shop again

by Rob on March 5, 2008

I made the decision when I returned to Canada to optimize my finances. One of those optimizations was to buy a used car. I looked at all the new ones, and then I found my baby… a 2001 BMW 330i. Very nice, two sets of wheels (winter / summer) including rims, very low mileage, great [...]

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