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Rest in peace, Jack Layton
August 22nd, 2011 in current events | No Comments »We often get bogged down by the daily minutiae and forget about the bigger picture. On the day of his death, Jack Layton reminds us that we can be the greatest country on earth: Canada is a great country, one of the hopes of the world. We can be a better one – a country [...]
Why Usage Based Billing Sucks
February 7th, 2011 in current events | 7 Comments »I am connected to the Internet an average of 16 to 18 hours a day. Yes, that means that the only time I’m not online is when I’m sleeping or driving. But in 2011, this has become my way of life, as well as many others across Canada and the rest of the world. So [...]
SERP Weirdness: Taco Bell
January 24th, 2011 in internet marketing | 5 Comments »With news of the class action suit against Taco Bell’s “beef” content, and having to be careful about my diet because I am gluten intolerant, I decided I wanted to check out Taco Bell’s nutritional information. I quickly pulled up Google and did a search for [taco bell]. The resulting SERPs were not what I [...]
Testing Something: 7bks Embed
January 4th, 2011 in miscellaneous | No Comments »If you don’t know Tom Critchlow, he’s the totally yummy Head of Search Marketing at Distilled UK, and the creator of 7books. 7books is a site to create lists about books. Also, Tom has an English accent which just takes the yumminess over the top. When I first checked out 7books, I thought “It would [...]
Kauai Recap: “Chicken Island”
October 10th, 2010 in travel | 2 Comments »I just got back (ok, I got back a week ago) fromKauai, Hawaii for what was my first vacation in a long time. Kauai is one of the oldest Hawaiian islands. It’s covered in feral chickens, and was a filming location for Jurassic Park. Here are a few of my (sober) highlights from the trip: [...]
My Comments on the Peaker Plant in the Holland Marsh
July 11th, 2010 in current events | 6 Comments »This is a copy of comments submitted to the Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing regarding the Peaker Plant proposed for the Holland Marsh. Well, not proposed – underway, really, despite rules to protect the Marsh from this type of development, the unanimous voting against it by the Councillors of King Township, and the disapproval [...]
Scammers, Spammers and Snake-Oil Salesmen
June 13th, 2010 in internet marketing | 13 Comments »Scammers, spammers, snake-oil salesmen. The Internet is full of them. But up until last week, I hadn’t seen much existence of them in real life. Last week I attended Search Engine Strategies in Toronto. It was my first time actually attending an SES show, and they graciously invited me to speak (or, well.. do a [...]
Creating Custom Blog Pages in WordPress
April 24th, 2010 in wordpress | No Comments »I’m posting this here mostly so I can remember how I did it. If you happen to find this useful yourself, then great One of the problems I commonly have with WordPress is customizing archive-type pages. I usually want to put some piece of content above the archives — and need that content to be [...]
Spring Conference Schedule
March 11th, 2010 in internet marketing | 2 Comments »Seems every time the other Outspoken ladies are at industry conferences, someone makes a comment that I’ve drawn the short straw again and been left behind. Funny, and makes me feel a little better about not being there, but we can’t all be galavanting around the continent all the time. No really, cuz we do [...]
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