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Con'grats to Brenda !!

Just got an email , "On March 22, 2007, only days after being honoured in Ottawa for her work with Aboriginal women, Brenda MacIntyre will be recognized as Aboriginal Businesswoman of the Year at the Toronto Aboriginal Business Association Entrepreneurs of the Year Awards."

Con'grat Brenda !! - ALL THE BEST IN THE FUTURE !!

I met Brenda with her group a long time ago at AANJIIWENDAMIN - A Cross-Cultural Dialogue on Aboriginal Issues in 2005. visit www.BrendaMacIntyre.com or www.MySpace.com/brendamacintyre or more info on her works.

Wierd Update Notification !!

What's this notice doing at the top left hand corner of my of my screen eh ?? Kinda one of one errors that happen in the Windows world !! :)-

Purina.Ca Customer service

Purina needs to have a little bit more consideration for those with pets and the issue of "killer pet food" I just called into their 1-800# and find that the Customer service staff have closed for the day. I think that's sad, as customers  need to  talk to directly to a person / rep of the company during such a recall. Secondly, this is a crisis / incident  and I am pretty sure that they can staff customer service peeps on a 24/hr basis. At least, till  this all blows over and recall completes. I spent, like 45  minutes researching ad making sure Mr.Socks was not getting bad chow. and gourmet stuff tonight.  Poor bugger did not know why I was not feeding him, when I got home !!

Update : I just spoke to their PR Specilist Jenine LaFayette, PR Communications Specialist, Nestlé Purina PetCare and they are doing all that they can to  support customer calls. Kudos to Jenine for to taking the time to explain and statisfy my concerns and questions. She will pass along my suggestion of a 24x7 service, (during crisis mode)- hopefully this will help other peeps too !!

Update#2 : Click on the links below for details from the manufacturers of brands, flavors and production batches affected by the recall.

Menu Foods -- cat products ;  Menu Foods -- dog products, Del Monte -- cat and dog products,
Hill's Prescription Diet -- cat products, Purina -- dog products, Sunshine Mills -- dog products

 

FNSA PowWow

First Nations Students Association (F.S.N.A) of the  University of Western Ontario are having thier first Campus PowWow on Marth 24th. If you are in that area then kinda visit them to make their event a good one !!
I have always found that participant /attending these type of events as a pretty unique experince.

Yeah, its been quite some time since I got back into the groove of smokesignals

Class A Sale-nitemare !!

OK I logged into my Long standing (overdue) account to check my status and try to make a sales of my holdings of UPS.  They partner with melloninvestor.com . Now comes the headaches;

1)Site does not support FireFox only IE6 and above to be used.
2) Multiple errors while resetting my defaults like phone, email etc.
3) Their Form does not accept the Canadian Banking details (Aka routing details).
4) Customer Service Phone Call goes in one endless loop, cant reach a person !
5) Information indicates that I have shares in » E-mail UPS ; » E-mail MetLife ; » E-mail Microsoft , what the heck is Metlife ?? yeah and  who wants MSFT shares --  and NO I don't have MSFT under this folio, so why clutter my folio with this junk info ?

So this is becoming a nightmare for me to get rid of of my shares of UPS.  Usability of the site is crazy, not user friendly at all. Information needs to be repeated on the web forms practically every second page. I really wonder how companies manage to get away with this type of service to generic public.   

Is anyone else having the same experinces in canada with melloninvestors ? Care to share your story in the comments ?

Alberto Gonzales' resignation

First Republican senator to call for Alberto Gonzales' resignation: Sen. John Sununu (R-NH). Via :TalkingpointsMemo

Seems that its appropriate for this Dude to step down..maybe he should also 'fess up to the "mistakes" that were actually made.

7 days of Socks !!

Its been like 7 days since I got Mr.Socks. In the last 7 days he has learnt
1) To curl up under the cushions covers of my sofa. He kinda really blends in.
2) Whines when I don't give him enough attention.
3) Thank Gawd, he has now knows where the litter back is  !! Count: Only Once he pee'ed in my bed. Thats not to bad. given The fact that he's still a baby.
4) Learnt that walk on my Laptop is a big no no !!- He gets smacked hard- when he jumps onto my work desk
5) He has learnt to jump /crawl up and  find his way up into my bed . Now, its become a big playground for him.
6) Wires and Cords are his fav way to keep himself entertained.
7) He's eats twice a day and I dont know how he goes from sleepiness to full blown mischief within a minute !!

Twitter RSS feed + Webclips

"wTwitterTwitter Where art thou ?

I was playing with Twitter and was wondering how to add friends and track traffic. I got feedup of trying to figure it out.. actually I was lazy and I just picked up the RSS on the Twiter User and plugged it into my sidebar for webclips.. BINGO.. upto date from the users without even touching the platform , IM , Web app.

Test Subject : RedMonk, AnilDash, SteveRubel, Mish &  Andy

I may have to reverse my earlier thought process

update : I just consumed the public RSS and now my sideabar looks like the "Googleplex Real time Display of search terms "--!!

Twitter too Conected ?

Oh Pat echos my feeling on Twitter !!

I kinda felt that its too intrusive and I really don't need to broadcast everything everywhere of life to the net.. blogging is just about ok for me.. if you want to know more..just darn pick up the phone and give me a call.. !!

Question in play: Has 'push/pull' technologies reached its threshold ?? Twitter is an enabler of both..yet's I find another user experince that echo's my inital thoughts

What are you made of ?

A ruptured disk pressed against Glenn Mangurian's spinal cord several years ago, leaving the lower half of his body permanently paralyzed. One minute, Mangurian was healthy and secure in his career as a management consultant; the next, his life was transformed and filled with uncertainty. The injury has taught him volumes about resilience and leadership.  "Realizing What You're Made Of" by Glenn Mangurian seems to be a good book to buy , specially given the predicament that I in- being  unemployed ,not having steady cashflow and struggling to keep my sanity level in balance !!

Sutha points me to a couple of nice pointers

• You can't know what will happen tomorrow-and it's better that way.
• You can't control what happens, just how you respond.
• Adversity distorts reality, but crystallizes the truth.
• Loss amplifies the value of what remains.
• It's easier to create new dreams than cling to broken ones.
• Your happiness is more important than righting injustices.