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Despite what some of my readers might think, the statement in the title is one I know, in my heart, to be true. Canadian CEOs are far more conservative and risk-averse than their US brethern, and there is no real cult of the CEO in Canada as there is in the US.

Canadian business culture is very chummy, and probably a little older than US business culture. This means that e-mail has just become a useful tool for many Canadian CEOs. IM and Blogs? Maybe in the next generation.

Thanks to the Blog Herald.

Chris:

If you showed up in Boston, I would buy you a neat, 25 year-old scotch and take you to a nice quiet place out where I live so you can scream in the woods.

Good luck with your trip.

Stephen

Suddenly this weekend, a project at work, which had been back-burnered for all of Q3 2004, became a screaming hot topic to be completed ASAP.
This is not much of an issue, as the code that needs to be written will consist of re-using a group of functions that I have already developed and refined. What is curious is that they decided to expose the document used to define this specification to more than one customer. At the time of the initial scope definition for the project, this was to be for a partner who we had developed a contractual relationship with, including and SLA. Now management has decided that exposing this document to other customers, who can then also hold us to the same SLA, is a good idea.
Sometimes I wonder what I have gotten myself into.

Samantha has discovered that the ceiling in the guest room is one coat of water-based paint on top of raw plaster. Idiots. The people who have owned this house before us are idiots.

Add that to the "very small" water problem in the basement "only during the heaviest rains". Try a flowing stream whenever more than 20 minutes of rain falls.

In British Columbia, the sellers would be considered in breach of contract for not making a full-disclosure about the condition of the house. Obviously in the US, it is always caveat emptor.

Got my first ever notice for Jury Duty today.

Immediately circled disqualification #1: Not a US Citizen.

Interesting how the Firefox Buzz Index at Yahoo matches the hit graph on my server.

Gecko Hits

Firefox Hits

Go Firefox!

James Governor sent me this link to some BBC support information. I assume that this is public knowledge and I am not exposing some kind of UK National Secret by exposing this for the Google Monster to crawl.

The best thing is the Network Diagram. Very nice.

Now, technically, it is not a true Chinook, but it sure feels like one. Where else can the temperature rise 20 degrees in 2 hours? It was eeriely warm when I came to work this morning. When I go home, it will be a surprising cold that will great me.

Gotta love weather, the last random element.

Having had contact with more than a few "industry analysts" (and seen former colleagues make the move into this are), James Governor, of RedMonk, makes a few comments on the relevance of analysts.

The Takeaway:

"what are you going to do to revolutionize your industry?"
                            Susan Koehler, Microsoft

Blue Skies for Job Hoppers?

Looks like a smaller version of the glory days may be returning. Employers should take the time to carefully evaluate their salary and benefits packages before they lose key emloyees who tolerated their positions because the employers had the upper hand.