Author: Thomas
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Getting Paid On Time
In case you haven’t heard, there’s a slump in the oil prices around my neck of the woods. Alberta, Canada that is. Frankly I haven’t a clue what the prices are doing around the world. It’s been quite a while since I was working directly in the oil patch. My go-to source was “The DOB”,…
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Open Book Publishing
I found Open Book Publishers. They allow some of their books to be viewed in other websites, so I thought I’d try it out. This title is a dry read but the title caught my eye. There is a link inside the frame to view full screen…
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Why I don’t Do Facebook
I’m going to use an analogy for this. Stay with me. I want you to pretend for a moment that you have a little store. You are a storekeeper in a happy land. Then Tim Horton’s gives their coffee away for free to everyone. And everything changes.
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Alberta First Nations and Law
I thought I’d do my part for a friend who is putting together a lecture for the benefit of anyone interested in law, first nations studies, and Alberta Heritage. Ruth Gorman is the person-of-interest in this lecture. A book about her work with First Nations has been published: Behind the Man: John Laurie, Ruth Gorman,…
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Choosing Your Domain Name
Info-graphics are neat. I have been searching around for a good info-graphic that explains the open source initiative, but I haven’t found one I can post here. What I did find was a couple of good ones at http://www.whoishostingthis.com. They allow other websites to hotlink to their images and even give the code snippit. That’s…
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From Rotten Window Sill To Finished Millwork
No pictures wer taken of the huge window coming out, or the new windows going in. It would have made a great blog post, however it would have been too long. It took most of an afternoon. I thought the old windw would be around 350lbs but it was more like 450 lbs. In order…