Monthly Archives: July 2006

a camping we will go

By jonezy | Published: July 29, 2006
Well not me, my son actually. Today we are dropping him off for his first full week away at camp. This isn’t his first long stay away from home though, he’s been with his grandparents for a week here and there. But this will be the first time away from family. He’s going to Fraser Lake Camp, which [...]
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magic pills will make you a winner

By jonezy | Published: July 27, 2006
It seems that Lloyd Landis (who just won the tour de france) has tested positive for higher than normal levels of testosterone… a disturbing trend (if true) of shortcutting your way to the winners circle in a lot of today’s major sports. Imagine what the kids watching this stuff are thinking?
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LocalBrit.co.uk – A UK Local Search Engine Done in 24 Hours

By jonezy | Published: July 24, 2006
With some data in hand could you make a local search engine in 24 hours? Well, that is exactly what someone has done with Local Brit. With everything needing to be done in a day, you would expect corners to be cut, but everything, from the design to the search, just works. this isn’t the first [...]
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open source website(s)

By jonezy | Published: July 21, 2006
Waferbaby has just gone open source I have been reading the site for a bunch of years and did spend a period of time in touch with the guy that runs the site (which is pretty hard when you are in canada and they are in australia). It’s a really cool idea to give back to the [...]
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what do you do when you don’t want any vc funding?

By jonezy | Published: July 21, 2006
you get vc funding anyways? 37signals have long touted there ability to keep it real with out the overbearing weight of venture capital investment and all the trappings that come with it. But they have just accepting a minority investment (personal investment) from Jeff Bezos reading through the comments makes me wonder sometimes why people care [...]
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wow ford

By jonezy | Published: July 18, 2006
in my last post i talked about corporate blogging and how much i like it… well i happened to read today about ford moving into the world of video blogging! they’ve buitl a really slick looking site to present the content in and the video’s have a very personal and friendly feel to them… seeing [...]
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corporate blogging

By jonezy | Published: July 14, 2006
I am a huge fan of corporate blogging, i read googles, mark cubans, robert scobles etc…. there are too many to list. point being is that the company i work for Q4 Web Systems has just released it’s corporate blog! were hoping that it will work well with our existing and upcoming customer base (we deal [...]
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i like to ride my bicycle

By jonezy | Published: July 13, 2006
so i started excersizing after about 12 years of sloth like existance. i mean the most excersize i got was walking up and down sets of stairs. so about 2 weeks ago i went out and bought a bike. nothing special mind you.. I didn’t want to be one of those people that goes [...]
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kyle’s 9th birthday

By jonezy | Published: July 12, 2006
some pics (i’m also trying out the parazz mini viewer) wordpress apparently doesn’t allow the embed tag kyle’s bday pics
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vanilla 1 is officially out!

By jonezy | Published: July 11, 2006
Vanilla 1 is out for real now. I have been playing with it for many months now and really enjoy using it. I don’t have a particular need for it myself but someone else may! You can also keep up with what’s going on in the vanilla and lussumo world be checking out the [...]
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