Category: General

TN Status

As a Cana­dian cit­izen who does some work for cus­tom­ers in the U.S., I needed to get some form of leg­al status for busi­ness trips there. For Cana­dians trav­el­ling tem­por­ar­ily, TN status is the easi­est if you qual­i­fy. Here­with a few notes on my exper­i­ence of the procedure.

As a Cana­dian cit­izen who does some work for cus­tom­ers in the U.S., I needed to get some form of leg­al status for busi­ness trips there. For Cana­dians trav­el­ling tem­por­ar­ily, TN status is the easi­est if you qual­i­fy. Here­with a few notes on my exper­i­ence of the procedure.

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Chai Blues @ YVR

If you’re fly­ing out of Van­couver Inter­na­tion­al Air­port through gates E91 — E96 (part of the U.S. depar­tures area), avoid the coffee/snackbar there.

If you’re fly­ing out of Van­couver Inter­na­tion­al Air­port through gates E91 — E96 (part of the U.S. depar­tures area), avoid the coffee/snackbar there. It fea­tures stale bagels, con­des­cend­ing and slow ser­vice, and weird-tast­ing chai lattes.

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Surveys

As a small busi­ness own­er, I often get people call­ing up with some sur­vey or anoth­er. They want to know wheth­er my busi­ness is grow­ing, wheth­er I’ll be hir­ing more people this year, and what soft­ware and ser­vices I sell. If these sur­veys are the basis of the eco­nom­ic polls pre­dict­ing what’s hap­pen­ing this year, I’d advise the world to dis­count most of the answers. The ques­tions sounds like they were writ­ten pre­sup­pos­ing par­tic­u­lar answers; since the ques­tions often don’t make sense the answers won’t either.

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Sometimes you have to laugh

The Nigeri­an spam action shows no signs of dying down, but some­times you do have to laugh… on scan­ning the TAG archives I came across this post­ing in which the sub­ject line is STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL but the email has been sent to no few­er than 6 pub­lic W3C mail­ing lists, as well as a bunch of mem­ber-con­fid­en­tial mail­ing lists and oth­er email addresses. I sure hope the thou­sands of dir­ect recip­i­ents keep it con­fid­en­tial, as requested ;-).

Weblog Creation

This is the third time I’ve tried to set up a web­log. Maybe this time I’ll actu­ally feel happy enough with the res­ults that I start pub­licly using it, rather than bog­ging down installing and testing. 

Unlike many people I know, I decided that my main reas­on for blog­ging was to blog, rather than to code a blog­ging sys­tem, and that I had no great desire to do so (using someone else’s work and then tweak­ing to suit my needs has always appealed). So I set out to find what soft­ware there is out there that I like the look of, and could install on the box in the base­ment which is my web server.

This is the third time I’ve tried to set up a web­log. Maybe this time I’ll actu­ally feel happy enough with the res­ults that I start pub­licly using it, rather than bog­ging down installing and testing. 

Unlike many people I know, I decided that my main reas­on for blog­ging was to blog, rather than to code a blog­ging sys­tem, and that I had no great desire to do so (using someone else’s work and then tweak­ing to suit my needs has always appealed). So I set out to find what soft­ware there is out there that I like the look of, and could install on the box in the base­ment which is my web server.

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Why Weblogs?

Web­logs are the nat­ur­al exten­sion to home pages 1994-style. Instead of stat­ic pic­tures of cats, they are today’s pic­ture of the cats (or garden, or sun­set). They’re an online diary, a pro­ject man­age­ment tool, and a place to record pro­gress in whatever you do.

Web­logs are the nat­ur­al exten­sion to home pages 1994-style. Instead of stat­ic pic­tures of cats, they are today’s pic­ture of the cats (or garden, or sun­set). They’re an online diary, a pro­ject man­age­ment tool, and a place to record pro­gress in whatever you do.
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