Author Archives: jonezy

What do you do when the shit hits the fan?

By jonezy | Published: May 13, 2008
To cut to the point, I was promoting some changes for a client last night. It was an update to part of our product that allows our customers to send automated and one off emails to lists of subscribers. I had done promotions similar to this in the past (in fact i’ve probably done the [...]
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Twitter in plain english

By jonezy | Published: May 10, 2008
Found this while reading Rick Strahl’s blog today, I’ve tried to explain twitter to a lot of people but this pretty much sums it up in about 2 minutes, what more could you ask for? (video source: http://www.commoncraft.com/Twitter)
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Semantics, language and meaning

By jonezy | Published: May 5, 2008
As an employee of a software development it’s fairly common to have people of many nationalities and cultural backgrounds as co-workers. More and more people from around the world come to Canada and the United States to find jobs in the tech industry, bringing there ample skills and knowledge to the companies they work for. [...]
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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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