Category Archives: misc

Eight months ago I wrote on here wondering whether the Meebo iPhone app was actually ever going to be released. Today the waiting has finally paid off – it is here! Things I noticed Log in with your Meebo account … Continue reading →

My latest observation on the Gazaro Insider, the Super Bowl causes HDTV prices to Skyrocket! One example: this Samsung HDTV jumped up $800 for the Super Bowl then immediately back down after the game. Read all about it on the Gazaro … Continue reading →

Last weekend my roommate Neil dug out his copy of Wall Street so we could watch it again. This viewing was spurred by this great trailer for “Wall Street 2: Money Never Sleeps” – coming to theatres April 23, 2010. … Continue reading →

As part of the ADM 3378 E-business course I did a group presentation on the topic of “Getting Started with E-commerce”. My part of the presentation covered domain names, web hosting, and e-commerce software. The presentation was very brief, only five … Continue reading →

A parade balloon of my favourite children’s book character Arthur. This video is fantastic, thanks to Derek who sent it to me.

Currently I am taking a course on E-business with Professor David Wright (ADM 3378). We had the opportunity to write an article for the Telfer School of Management’s E-business Wiki. I chose to write about URL Shorteners, such as Bit.ly. … Continue reading →

As a full-time student I don’t have much money coming in, however I seem to constantly be spending it. Recently I was tracking my expenses and attempting to determine a reasonable budget with an app called Cha-Ching (iPhone and Mac). … Continue reading →

UPDATE: ReMail was acquired by Google and the app was removed from the App Store! Apparently I have over 26,500 e-mail messages in my willw.net account! I’ve been using this address for three years, which works out to roughly 8,833.33 e-mails/year. … Continue reading →

Reading the StartupNorth blog, a specific post caught my eye: “Hire a co-op!” From that post: For each co-op student hired, your organization can take advantage of the Co-operative Education Tax Credit.  The Ontario Government recently increased the credit to 25 … Continue reading →

While working on campus I found a few promotional flyers for the University of Ottawa’s new mobile version of their website, “coming this fall.” It will be called uoMobile, similarly named to the also coming soon uoZone. Based on this … Continue reading →