Category Archives: Business

I’m Forcing Myself to Post

Apparently I really suck at maintaining a blog. Wait, I knew that when I started Soliciting Fame over 100 posts ago…
Anyway, again, I’m still here. Midterms are done so I guess there goes my excuse for not posting. The cafe is still hanging in there and the Free WiFi Project is slowly growing. I need [...]

Cheap Vinyl Cutting

Running multiple businesses and being friends with similar people we all know how expensive it is to have any sort of signs made. We’re very much do-it-yourself kind of people, so we bought a vinyl cutter.
First off, this thing was cheap. We shopped around and found a cutter from US Cutters on eBay (don’t buy [...]

Here, Take My Personal Info, PLEASE!

Many people, and a lot of my friends, complain about their “private data” being made known to large companies. Facebook, Rogers, and other huge companies constantly get flak for collecting personal information about their clients. But they do this to make advertising and your overall user experience MORE RELEVANT. Sears however, sucks at this:

This is [...]

CSS Frameworks

I’m going to start developing sites using a CSS framework. I’ve read lots of arguments for and against and I feel like I won’t be delving into super complicated content anytime soon and therefore a prebuilt framework should speed things up a lot.
That’s really the goal that myself and Rob and going for, speed. We’re [...]

Mesh WiMax at the Edmonton Fringe Festival

The next 10 days are the Edmonton International Fringe Festival. As part of this the Free WiFi Project (yes that’s the official name now) is attempting to cover part, if not all, of the Fringe grounds. Of course in order to broadcast wifi you need an Internet connection.
Not so simple.
The Fringe Festival is pretty tied [...]