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In my view, entrepreneurial judgment is the ability to tell the difference between a situation that’s not working but persistence and iteration will ultimately prove it out, versus a situation that’s not working and additional effort is a destructive waste of time and radical change is necessary. –Marc Andreessen And thanks to Aran for pointing […]

i am with tunes. after spending two weeks with only 4 gigs of music (thanks to my mom for lending me her nano) i knew it wasn’t sustainable. yes, i had checked the gym before i left, but the staff person i checked with was a substitute (the actual staff was on vacation) and couldn’t […]

today my plan was to work from home. i had an appointment midmorning, and then a houseguest arriving from Winnipeg in the afternoon, so it made sense for me to stay here. but this morning when i went to set myself up, i didn’t have my power supply. so i realized i needed to drive […]

they have a toy drive going on at work. someone donated a newly wrapped, cute hello kitty stuffed animal. i want it. is it wrong if i take it and replace it with another gift? another two gifts? sigh. that’s what i thought. but i figured it was worth checking.

I was on a call talking about blogging with some people far more senior than myself. I wanted to give them an example of a group blog that’s used to share information (not just as a journal). So I told them to check out blogto.com as an example of a blog I read often to […]

Last week was EX.I.T.E. camp here at the Toronto Lab. I was one of the co-chairs. Camp got a lot of media coverage which was fun. It was also great to see how creatively they spelled the camp name. At least they got mine right (well, one called me jen). For the record, it’s EX.I.T.E. […]

I didn’t have my luggage for a night I ate oysters on the half shell I squatted in a hotel for a night I saw the pacific ocean I lost my glasses and i think that’s about it.

This morning I got an email forwarded to me from my [soon-to-be Polish] friend Erin. Her friend, Eric, was looking for a home for a Hello Kitty “hand” Massager. And, given my Hello Kitty room, Erin thought I could provide it with a very good home. Upon receiving my [overly?] enthusiastic response, Eric immediately delivered […]

Ever onward IBM!