Monthly Archives: May 2007

Moving day for Nexopia

First of all a big thanks to Rob Davy over at Cadence Creek Equine Centre for a mention in his blog. Rob is one of my best friends and we both share the entrepreneurial spirit. Rob and his wife Caitlin run a horse boarding and riding lesson facility just east of Edmonton. [...]

Almost there

Yesterday I met with the current owners of my soon to be Internet cafe. Over coffee we discussed their financial situation and chatted about their history as a company.
I am still crunching numbers but so far I am very confident that everything is legitimate and will work out.
Coming Monday I need to do several [...]

I finally have financing!

As you may have read in my earlier post about purchasing a business I am trying to purchase an Internet Cafe. Today I received confirmation that I would have the purchased financed by one bank. I am still waiting to hear from the BDC about some money that “looked good” initially. Hopefully [...]

Beautiful beautiful URLs

I stayed up late to learn a bit about Apache and how to use mod_rewrite to give me some snazzy new URLs.
Thanks to cor for his tutorial, it definitely helped clarify the Apache mod_rewrite documentation.
Unfortunately I haven’t fully implemented them yet. Hopefully they will be done tonight.
Update 23:52:44 – The permalinks now work, [...]

I want the whole Helio Ocean!

I’ve been aware of Helio for a long time but it wasn’t until recently that I actually wanted a phone from them.
Luckily the last issue of Technology Review that I will receive before my subscription expires had a great article on the trials and tribulations that Helio has gone through. By the way, Technology [...]