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Archive for December, 2007

Year End

We are winding down for the year delighted to have made it through the first 4 months! Not that we are doing as well as we might like. The Canon printers are a huge disappointment. Projects are not moving as fast as I expected. I was overly optimistic. It’s not the staff, it’s me. I [...]

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Hiring staff these days, you can be sure they will be an eclectic mix. Ours cover a wide ethnic and religious swathe which leaves the issue of what to do about Christmas. Kitchener is a multicultural town, but let’s face it, there’s a Christmas parade, downtown is lit with snowmen and santa clauses and the [...]

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Blow Expensive

What can I say about the 3 day seminar I attended last weekend? I went with Joni who walked out at noon because she couldn’t stand another hour with the workshop leader. Ostensibly about search engine optimization, this was 3 days of hype.
We were told to bring laptops only to find that half the room [...]

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Wow. Okay, it has been a couple of weeks since the last entry. Fawad has started working for us. He’s very nervous, but fine.
They forget to tell you when they talk about starting a business that there will be days lost to personal issues: getting new health cards (took all morning); visits from family looking [...]

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