Monthly Archives: April 2008

RescueTime: One month later

By jonezy | Published: April 30, 2008
It’s been about a month since I started using Rescuetime, it’s been a pleasant and eye opening experience. A few of my initial assumptions have proven to be on the mark and some of the others not so much I don’t spend nearly as much time on my computer as I thought I thought I was spending [...]
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This guy takes great notes

By jonezy | Published: April 28, 2008
I’ve recently become pretty obsessed with taking notes at work, I find it really helps me focus in meetings and keeps me interested and involved, mine are all text and pretty boring but check these babies out, I wish I could make note taking this much fun! (from Jeff Lins blog) Seems like he was inspired by [...]
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It’s not rocket surgery!

By jonezy | Published: April 25, 2008
I found this gem over at the 37 signals corporate blog, its a presentation David Heinemeier Hansson did at the Startup School conference called The Secret to making money online. Its a great video about how 37 signals has become a profitable business over the last 4-5 years without taking any venture capital funding or outside [...]
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Twitter, where are you?

By jonezy | Published: April 20, 2008
Over this past weekend, twitter has experienced some kind of outage that I’ve never really seen before. Twitter has a history of some pretty serious downtime but this is different. The site works and it seems like I am getting updates from some of the people that I follow, but for some reason I am [...]
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Twitter, where is the value?

By jonezy | Published: April 15, 2008
I’ve been using twitter for about 6 months with varying degrees of “using”. Sometimes it’s a passive view where I see what other people are doing and not really broadcasting what I am doing, other times it’s lot’s of little wonderful nuggets out of my life that make it on there, and the occasional [...]
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Movie Review: Cloverfield

By jonezy | Published: April 8, 2008
(note: this blog post is a couple of months old, it’s no longer winter in canada and i kinda stumbled on this so i figured I would post it.) So i went opening night, left just as quickly as a I got there due to the swarming mass of 14-18 year olds trying to buy tickets, [...]
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Be passionate about what you do

By jonezy | Published: April 6, 2008
The other day at lunch a co-worker of mine and I were talking about hockey. Our conversation ended up at Alexander Ovechkin, left winger for the Washington Capitals. Whether you are a hockey fan or not this guy is a sight to see on the ice. Every goal he scores is like his first goal, every [...]
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Learning from others

By jonezy | Published: April 1, 2008
In the vein of the last post (what went well, what didn’t go well, what can i try next time?), I decided to apply this exercise to a particularly bad customer service experience I had at the local drug store. But this time I would apply those 3 questions to how the pharmacy [...]
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