|
|
March 2006 - Posts
-
I've been cartoonized!
Courtesy of Annie Fung Read More
|
-
As many you know, I'll be graduating this semester from Engineering after 5 years of post-secondary. My Iron Ring Ceremony is coming up this Saturday (I'm sure it's not an April fools joke) and it's a solemn ritual where we are given a ring to remind Read More
|
-
If you have a copy of the Edmonton Journal today, check out the business section! There's quite a lengthy article on our recent business plan success that also gives a little more detail about what our week was like. To sum up our entire experience, I Read More
|
-
Thanks to Brock for letting us know about Dell's 12 days of sales. Without his help, my desk would not look like this: Read More
|
-
Home sweet home! We didn't get a chance to explore Ottawa as much as we would like but it's one of those cities you need to plan ahead as the attractions are spread out across the city and most of them close by 5 pm. We also swung by Toronto and met up Read More
|
-
Check out the article in Ottawa Citizen regarding the competition yesterday!
Advice from David Scott, Master of Ceremonies for the Wes Nicol dinner:
Business is like sex. When it is good, it is really good. When it is bad, it is still good.
Ottawa Read More
|
-
Picture of us at a bar with some of the competitors
http://www.urbantoday.com/party/displayimage.php?album=lastup&cat=&pos=7#picv Read More
|
-
It was a very tense dinner but after a two hour wait, Paramagnus Developments came up on top and was the winner of the Wes Nicol Competition! There was some confusion at first as we were all on the stage and had trouble hearing behind the podium. But Read More
|
-
Today has been a grueling day of flights, presentations, media and just trying to stay sharp after going on the red eye. The presentations are now complete and we are just waiting for dinner time where they will announce the winners. You can read more Read More
|
-
About an hour following the VenturePrize event and a quick stop to our office, we were already on our way to the airport for our 10 hour flight journey. We stopped in Calgary for about 3 hours where I had a keg-size dinner at Tim Hortons and the free Read More
|
-
Today marks the end of the Alberta 2006 VenturePrize business plan competition and it has been a very tense day. We didn't place first but this entire experience itself has been rewarding enough. The prizes for the second and third places are the same Read More
|
-
After 3 months of hardwork, it all comes down to tomorrow where we will be competing for the grand prize at one of the new halls in Shaw Conference. Mack and I had a chance to visit the venue yesterday when we got a call for a pop rehearsal (it was originally Read More
|
-
If you can make it there, today would be a perfect day to go snowboarding in the city. By tomorrow, almost 10 inches of snow would have fallen - not something I look forward to when I'm on 13 inch wheels! Read More
|
-
Mack and I were approached by TEC Edmonton a couple of weeks ago and they asked us to put something together using a blog to detail our experiences in VenturePrize. This would give the community an inside look of VenturePrize and also help future participants Read More
|
-
I remember having a debate whether competiions like Roll Up the Rim or McDonald's Monopoly have different odds of winning depending on your location. Although I never dove into the math, my logic was that if you're allocating a certain amount of cups/french Read More
|
-
Tonight, John Bristowe gave a presentation at our Edmonton .NET Wizards event. We had about 50 attendees and although it is an improvement from the past, I was still hoping for a little more - especially with the event being advertised in the MSDN News Read More
|
-
After witnessing an unusually high number of driving hazards today, I decided to come up with a list of things that aggravate me about driving. Feel free to add to it! I hate...
old people who drive while talking on a cell phone (this was a new one Read More
|
-
For those who want to learn what Windows Vista has to offer for developers, John Bristowe will be speaking at our Edmonton .NET Wizards event on March 14th, 6 pm at ETLC 1-007 (located at the University of Alberta). Some of the topics include Windows Read More
|
-
As further evidence of the rise of podcasting, the University of Alberta just announced that they will be launching a weekly podcast news service on upcoming events and top stories.
Stories in the inaugural newscast include a fascinating interview with Read More
|
-
TEC Edmonton just issued a press release regarding the event Mack and I attended a few days ago. Part of the press release includes the winners in the Kick Start category as well as the finalists in the Fast Growth Category. The Kick Start winner is a Read More
|
-
With great anticipation, the projector we purchased for the Edmonton .NET Wizards finally arrived! The projector is featured to have a 92 inch projection, HDTV support, integrated speakers and dvd player. It also came with a wall-mount projection Read More
|
-
Although we've known the results of the local Wes Nicol competition for sometime, we've just been given permission to announce the results. Paramagnus took first place at the Wes Nicol business plan competition winning a prize of $6000 and we were told Read More
|
-
The finalists for the VenturePrize Fast Growth Category were announced tonight at the TEC Edmonton event and Paramagnus Developments has been selected as a finalist! With three companies left, there is one final round being held at Shaw Conference Read More
|
-
No doubt if you have been following tech news you would have heard that Research In Motion, the makers of Blackberry, settled the patent lawsuit with NTP (a patent holding firm whose entire business is taking infringers to court) for $612 million. Blackberry Read More
|
-
We just completed most of our infrastructure upgrades and this must be the first time that there have been no problems. The lights are blinking, computers are turning on and if you're reading this, it also means internet is still working. We also picked Read More
|
-
-
As a sign that blank CDs probably won't get any cheaper, the Copyright Board of Canada released their proposed tariffs for 2007 showing no change in the levy. With a levy of 21 cents per CD-R, you could be paying more to the Copyright Board than the cd Read More
|
|
|