by tyler_admin | Nov 15, 2007 | Personal Life, Uncategorized
Mail-In-Rebate. Those 3 words must bring a smile onto the face of any manufacturer/retailer. Never has a more enticing scam ever been developed. The main portion of the scam is that less than half of people actually send in their mail in rebates. That is a pretty good...
by tyler_admin | Nov 13, 2007 | Personal Life, Software, Technology, Uncategorized
Alright perhaps not overlords… It has been suspected for sometime that Cognos (my employer) would be acquired by a larger company. The even bets were on IBM, Microsoft, and Oracle. To be honest I didn’t really have an opinion one way or another as to...
by tyler_admin | Nov 8, 2007 | Uncategorized
Got an email with a very cool history lesson. During World War II the Army Corps of Engineers needed to hide the Lockheed Burbank Aircraft Plant to protect it from a Japanese air attack. They covered it with camouflage netting and made it look like a rural subdivision...
by tyler_admin | Nov 8, 2007 | Coaching, Uncategorized
Leave the glory to someone else. Let the honour fall on whoever goes out and gets it. There is nothing that angers a coach more than a lazy athlete. An athlete that puts in a poor effort during training looks poorly on their self and their coach. For a while I have...
by tyler_admin | Nov 8, 2007 | Politics, Uncategorized
I have had an on-going battle with Canadian retailers. For months I have been arguing with Pier1 about a mirror that we wanted that was selling for $200 US and $280 CDN. They gave some stupid reasons in that it costs more to ship stuff from Texas. I asked them what...
