Archive for 'Business'
Junk food is taxed in Canada?
You can see the guidelines here: http://tinyurl.com/6begcx It took me 9 years to discover this? And the only reason is because I actually looked at the receipt from Urban Fare today.
Posted: November 24th, 2008 under Business.
Tags: canada, gst, junk food
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Iz in your tea cup writin ur blogs
This weekend I “soft launched” Ch.ai. It’s a tea blog. Basically I drink so much tea, find so many little tid bits related to tea, that I could fill a whole blog talking about it. And I don’t put it all here otherwise it would become rather clear just how crazy I am when it [...]
Posted: October 5th, 2008 under Business, Fun, Writing.
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Google Gmail Bug Routes Emails to Wrong Address
Looks like Google has a dirty little secret. Gmail emails have been routed incorrectly to the wrong recipients. I’ve been receiving emails for a woman whose email address is similar to mine, minus a period between the first and second half of the username. So I thought people were accidentally adding the period – turns [...]
Posted: March 31st, 2007 under Business, Tech.
Comments: 7
I got a D.
On Friday, my team went through a training session on our personality types. And it turns out that I’m a Dominant-Conceptual (D/C) type. This all started the week before when we took an assessment test where they presented four words to us and we have to choose which on best describes us – at work. [...]
Posted: March 4th, 2007 under Business.
Comments: 2
So how do you find a Cory Doctorow?
Seth Godin says that Cory Doctorow’s ability to crazy multi-task and be a real-time editor will be in high demand. I think it already is, but companies haven’t really identified it. So once you realize that you need people that can do that, how do hire for it? How do you suss out in an [...]
Posted: January 18th, 2007 under Business.
Comments: 2