Occasional musings from a Left-coast Canadian ExPat in Oxford.
Last week was a tough one around chez watercooler. Generally I’d been a mostly curious observer of the financial crisis. Oh sure, our investment accounts are taking a hit right now, but our fund manager has been great (recommended pulling out of AIG about 6 months before the crisis began) and I’m confident our accounts … Continue reading Dose of Reality
As a marketing professional, I try to be responsible and pay attention to other people’s marketing efforts. And I’m often stymied by what passes as good marketing these days. I just have to vent about a couple examples of prime marketing stupidity from two companies that I really thought knew better: Example One: Lululemon I … Continue reading Two Birds, One Stone
To the women in the office across the hall who use the bathroom on this floor. In case you hadn’t noticed, this is a fairly respectable office space in downtown Vancouver. This is not the squatter in a lean-to behind some Thai Cat-House. So please adhere to the following so we can all have a … Continue reading Open Letter
In the past couple months, I’ve reached critical mass of “things” in my life. There are a lot of balls in the air (without sign of lessening that load any time soon – more likely increasing it), and I am at serious risk of dropping even more of them. Since we came back from the … Continue reading Getting Things Done
So, my co-workers are totally better than your co-workers. They’ve been scheming for a week now, completely behind my back, to put together a surprise wedding shower. They even got Neil involved, and had him come to the office for the festivities. I’d been having a completely insane day, between the regular insanity of getting … Continue reading Best Co-workers Ever
For the past 30 minutes, there have been flashes going off pretty much non-stop outside my office windows. From 6 floors up, it could really be a number of things: tourists taking photos, one of the bajillion international students in the area taking photos, welding… who knows. Then the music started. Christmas carols blaring. So … Continue reading Agent Provocateur
Here’s one for my colleagues in the marketing industry: I know with Web 2.0 everyone’s drinking the dynamic web kool-aid. (Frankly, the success of the business I work for depends on it.) We all want fancy sites with live demos and streaming this and interactive that. But for the love of pete, please don’t kill … Continue reading Give me back my Static