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“Weeding out the wankers” – Part 3

Posted on October 22, 2013 by ajgillette98@gmail.com

This book can be purchased at http://ijgbooks.com/weeding.html Today lets take a look at Chapter 2 “Average Leadership”. This chapter is about leadership and some of the strange things that companies do to develop their leaders. Lets start with a quote. … Continue reading →

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“Weeding out the wankers” – Part 2

Posted on October 21, 2013 by ajgillette98@gmail.com

This book can be purchased at http://ijgbooks.com/weeding.html Today I would like to finish my comments on Chapter one “Painting the Titanic”. This chapter is about what to watch for with respect to ineffective management. As a founder at Newbridge I … Continue reading →

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“Weeding out the wankers” – Part 1

Posted on October 18, 2013 by ajgillette98@gmail.com

When I was out visiting my brother in Vancouver this past summer he gave me a copy of a book written by the current CTO of Tellus, Ibrahim Gedeon. I finished the book yesterday and thought that it might be … Continue reading →

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Looking for employment

Posted on October 16, 2013 by ajgillette98@gmail.com

My current contract was just ended, so it’s time to re-examine how to approach searching for a job. The process has changed significantly in some ways and remained the same in others. There are a number of opportunities on the … Continue reading →

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Jobs that didn’t exist 10 years ago…

Posted on October 9, 2013 by ajgillette98@gmail.com

I recently stumbled across a post that described jobs that didn’t exist 10 years ago and was fascinated to discover that what I do now is one of them. The extract below is from the original post. I don’t know … Continue reading →

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Tech Tuesday update

Posted on October 2, 2013 by ajgillette98@gmail.com

Close to 300 people showed up at the Marshes last night for Tech Tuesday. The event for the evening was to be a panel discussion on the state of the tech industry in the Ottawa area. The panelists were to … Continue reading →

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Data Acquisition hardware

Posted on September 13, 2013 by ajgillette98@gmail.com

I know I have talked about this before but I recently rediscovered how incredibility cost effective current mobile device are as data acquisition devices. The world is scrambling to create an “Internet of connected things” with custom built hardware, but … Continue reading →

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Could I borrow a cup of Internet?

Posted on September 6, 2013 by ajgillette98@gmail.com

So you move into a new neighborhood and it is taking the local service provider longer than usual to get your new service turned up. You could get a wireless service but the reception on your cell phone at home … Continue reading →

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Can a geographic location effect your IQ?

Posted on August 19, 2013 by ajgillette98@gmail.com

I spent the last two days on the campus at UBC and realized that once again I felt smarter just being there. For each of our three kids we spent time touring campuses at Ottawa U, Carleton, Queens, McMaster, Waterloo, … Continue reading →

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Find my iThing

Posted on July 10, 2013 by ajgillette98@gmail.com

The pressures of daily life tend to make some of us loose focus from time to time and as a result we forget where we parked the car, where we left the remote, where our sun glasses might be, and … Continue reading →

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