Hi Correlation: Sales/Mkting Careers and University Rugby

I'm getting a good chuckle wrt/ my anecdotal experience that playing rugby in University is a good indicator of a career in Sales and Marketing. The story starts with my friend Greg's kids. They are both excellent students and rugby players. He recently told me that his son took a co-op position in marketing. I...

Jackie Burke Jr is Entertaining — Warning this is a Golf Post ;-)

I just finished reading It's Only a Game: Words of Wisdom from a Lifetime in Golf by Jackie Burke. It's in the style of a book that I really like, Harvey Penick's Little Red Book. Lot's of little snippets. Easy, entertaining, and lots of solid ideas 💡 . That is if your a golf fanatic...

I’m definitely a long-tail blog (rank 2.9Mth) — or am I?

After reading the latest laments of personal tech blogs falling down the rankings. I thought I'd check my blog's ranking for the first time. Whew! It's like looking at the one's golf swing on video for the first time ... "Man I suck" ... but then I knew that already 🙂 http://technorati.com/blogs/hnorth.wordpress.com Iain’s Chips &...

Hmmm — Dangerous Portfolio Model includes Real-Estate & ALU & PMCS

Today the globe and mail's stock analysis section has a piece on screening for "the worst quality US Stocks". Not surprisely its got real-estate and lumber companies. It also includes my least favorite telco hardware company ALU. The surprise was that it includes PMCS 👿 I always want to think good things about PMCS, but...

Setbacks for OLPC — the gorilla’s woke up

I've been hoping the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project will be successful. Seems like a noble goal. It is interesting how "noble goals" can quickly turn into "business threats". The WSJ reported earlier this week that MSFT and Intel have decided to act on the threat of the third world deploying Linux and non-Intel...