Surface is a play mat
Just a quick note for the loyal fans of zouak.com we are ramping up again to be posting more regularly. In the last few months we have been hectically busy relocating from Montreal to Calgary. Now we have a solid base and are open for business for the Calgary/Vancouver markets (so sorry Toronto and Montreal!). We have [...]
Relo to Calgary completed
Surface is a play mat
Just a quick note for the loyal fans of zouak.com we are ramping up again to be posting more regularly. In the last few months we have been hectically busy relocating from Montreal to Calgary. Now we have a solid base and are open for business for the Calgary/Vancouver markets (so sorry Toronto and Montreal!). We have [...]
The Magic of Writing on the iPad
The Line and the Anti-Consultant
There’s a line in the normal consulting world where the customer is on one side, and the consulting firm is on the other side. There are things you cannot do or say if you are on the consultant side of the line, either because you don’t have the credibility or because you are going to be in conflict with your firm, colleagues or p [...]
personal impact of Steve Jobs’ ...
I really didn’t expect to think much more of Steve Jobs’ passing than it being a piece of information I came across. I’ve never met him, I’ve never worked for Apple, and I’ve never read a book on Steve Jobs. But…
I worked at Microsoft for nearly four and a half years. I have met Steve Ballmer twice, once wh [...]
Does your career lives here?
When you are a trusted advisor to people, sometimes they will ask me for my honest opinion. I always offer my honest opinion, but asking me explicitly for my “honest” opinion has become code for “your absolute brutal opinion on this subject matter.” Recently I was asked about someone’s career prospects, and I tol [...]
HP’s WebOS could be the anti-An...
HP has a sales disaster on their hands with the TouchPad tablet they released (article) but the more I read about Google scrambling to find patents to protect Android phone makers from having to pay Microsoft $15 per handset in patent licensing among other headaches, I wonder if HP could take advantage of this.
As a handset maker, the last t [...]
Mentoring Unleashes Excellence
I go to every one of my daughter’s soccer games. She’s the smallest one on her team, and over the past four years she’s earned her way up to being around the bottom of the top third of players. Given her size and age is an excellent achievement. I always encourage her (I’ve made sure she actually likes me cheering her [...]
Side-effect of Cloud-Centric Devices
About two weeks ago my new 2TB external drive, where I store all my iTunes content among other things lost its mind, and I realized how much stuff I just didn’t have backed up. Don’t you hate that feeling? I contacted Apple, and knowing all well that it is not their responsibility but that sometimes they will help you out, they al [...]
You Forgot Something Mr. Smarty Pants...
I was in a meeting today, the third meeting in fact, to review a document I had done. After an hour of discussion, I was able to put my finger on why our views on what should be in the pivotal document were so different, it was the origin of our understanding of what it was for.
by http://www.sxc.hu/profile/plex
I’m fortunate to work on [...]

