Beyond the Rhetoric

 
 
Happy Holidays! Download a FREE audiobook today!         Advertise Here
 

Archive for October, 2008

What’s Up Wednesdays: Making Money Edition

October 22nd, 2008

There’s a fine line between ambition and greed, but I think we’d all agree that life is just a little more desirable when you have some extra cash. How you decide to spend all that money is entirely up to you, but what I’m going to do with this edition of What’s Up Wednesdays is [...]

The Epic Fail That Is Purolator

October 21st, 2008

Do not use Purolator Courier. Use anyone else but them. I wrote an open letter to Purolator last month, admonishing the quality of their customer service. It seems that absolutely nothing has changed since I published that post, because I have once again experienced the epic fail that is Purolator. As you may recall, one [...]

NFL Week 7 Results

October 21st, 2008

Another week in the NFL and it didn’t really go as planned. Going through my predictions for this past weekend, I fall one game short of getting 50% correct. That’s not very good, especially considering my accuracy in some of the previous weeks in the National Football League. What can I say? Here are the [...]

The Value of Redundant To-Do Lists

October 20th, 2008

As you may already know, there is a lot more to the business of freelance writing than the “simple” act of writing. This also applies to just about any kind of work-at-home career and as a result, it can be difficult to keep track of all the things that you need to do. I speak [...]

My Greatest Environmental Sin

October 19th, 2008

Having been born and raised in Vancouver, I was always taught to take reasonably good care of the environment. It seems to be all the rage these days to “go green”, but it’s something that Vancouverites have been trying to do for a number of years. We have the blue box recycling program, bottled beverages [...]