In June, I had the privilege of interviewing iBegin founder, Ahmed Farooq, about his up-and-coming local search site. Back then, iBegin was already gaining popularity with Toronto users, and plans were in place to expand the site to Ottawa. And just today, it was announced that iBegin is ...

If there's one thing I'm a sucker for, it's good food. Yet living in Phoenix, AZ (Chandler to be exact), sometimes it's difficult to find something different and unique. Luckily, Phoenix and its neighboring suburbs continue to grow, and with the growth comes diversity and new restaurants to ...

Updated 11/14/06: Corrected PHP code. I created 2 WordPress blogs to keep my "business" and "pleasure" in separate places, yet just trying to keep up with one blog has been difficult enough. Plus, visitors have to visit 2 blogs instead of one, so there's an unnecessary inconvenience on the user's ...

From June 28th through November 4th, you may have noticed some inactivity on the blog. Unfortunately, the demands of life, work, and being a closet entrepreneur kept me away from the blog longer than I would've liked, so what better way to celebrate signs of life on the blog ...

For those of you who have never heard of the Buddha Machine, it's a small portable music box that consists of a speaker, headphone jack, volume knob, and a toggle switch that cycles through 9 continuously looping songs. It might sound simple and strange in theory, yet a lot ...

Updated: PHP code has been updated after realizing that some of the code had been stripped by the WordPress WYSIWYG editor. As I mentioned in my The Great Thing About Blogging post, I made the mistake of assigning multiple URL's to this site in an attempt to make it easier for ...

The great thing about blogging is that no matter how off topic and bad your posts get, you always have the power to smite them into oblivion by putting them back into 'Draft' status or completely deleting them altogether. The satisfaction of such an action ranks up there with ...

I thought that I would take a break from the business blogging (or attempts at blogging about business) for now and share a little something called Things One Should Know. After several conversations and help from friends and colleagues, I came up with the following list of things that ...