Anne introduced us at the Leadership Waterloo Region annual general meeting Wednesday night.

Barb, the chair, chaired the meeting and unveiled the new website.

A photographer from REX took photos of various people at the meeting.

Only a few of the 22-person class were missing. Steve showed up a little later with his brother Tyler. Tyler told me that Steve was a Feds VP years ago.

We just had our opening retreat last weekend. Now its time to start our group project and start our community learning.

Wednesday I went to the Career Fair at RIM Park. I saw Yasir on the way to the bus, so I talked to him about talking to recruiters at the fair as he marked off company booths he wanted to visit.

When we got there we got a map and marked off which booths he wanted to go to.

I got a load of pens and other things as well. Some company was giving out Wonderbread. There were chips, hotrods, brownies, and candy. There were other gimmicky toys, paraphernalia, and kitsch.

I saw Rahul at the Infusion booth and he gave me a t-shirt. The t-shirt says “code hero” and depicts a Pai-Mei—looking character with the words “.net ninja” over his leg. He said he knew that I could get the t-shirt seen. I told him I would put it on my website to promote Infusion Development and Infusion Angels.

Billed as “Canada’s largest entrepreneurship event,” UWExpo is a great oppotunity for UW students to experience a great entrepreneurship event for free and it’s happening nearby.

Canada’s largest entrepreneurship event.
With over 2,000 students in attendance, this will be a monumental event in Canada’s history as Impact will be bringing together almost 10% of UW’s population. No other event of this size has been done before. All events will be taking place at Davis Centre and surrounding UW buildings.One day only.
Understanding the busy schedules of UW’s entrepreneurial students, this conference will run for one day only - September 30th, 2006 from 10 am to 5 pm. Mark Sept. 30 off on you calendar today!

It’s FREE.
With 20 speakers, 10 workshops, and over 30 exhibitors involved - this impressive line-up of events will usually cost anywhere from $100-300 delegate fee anywhere else! You have nothing to lose… Register now! Unregistered students cannot show up on the day of UW Expo.

A conference like none other.
Students are expected to only attend events they have registered for and thus, do not have to remain for the entire length of the day.

Be inspired by entrepreneurial leaders.
Come and listen to our impressive line-up of keynote speakers:

• Denise Donlon, Founder of Much More Music and former President of Sony Music Canada.
• George Roter and Parker Mitchell, Co-Founders and Co-CEOs of Engineers Without Borders
• Larry Smith, UW Economics Professor and Recipient of the Distinguished Teacher Award
• And many more!

Janine is having her Blue Skies Yoga Grand Opening tomorrow.

At Blue Skies Yoga, we offer prenatal yoga, parent & peanut yoga, and kids’ yoga for ages 2 to 13 in Kitchener and in Waterloo, Ontario. We also teach family yoga, adult yoga, and host yoga birthday parties for kids!

Our Grand Opening will be held on Saturday September 16th from 11:30am to 3:30pm at 44 Queen St. S. Free kids’ class at 12 noon and Prenatal class at 1:30pm.

Yesterday’s local section of The Rec has a story about a homeowner who says she is “ready to throw in the towel” or that there should be more high-density apartment buildings, which would make it more difficult to have large parties.

Check out the salacious and raucous scene described in the following section of “Parties too much for mom” (more…)

When Steve and I were in Seattle, I met a cool girl named Jamie. She is a photographer. She shoots wedding and makes kaleidescopic-photograph cards.

Jamie Farage has been dedicated to photography for over a decade. All of her current work is created digitally. Her camera of choice is the Canon EOS 20D. She edits her images in Photoshop CS. She is also experienced with Black and White processing and printing. She has experience assisting/interning with many professional photograpghers from all opver Western Washington. Most recently Jamie pursues a carrer in Wedding Photography since earning her B.A. in Studio Photography from Western Washington University. Jamie is also a graduate of the Seattle Central Community College Commercial Photography Program. Please feel free to contact the photographer for interests in buying or showcasing works.

• beautiful cahmera Flickr
• Farage Photography webpage

My business bank is discontinuing its service:

Important news: The bizSmart offer will be discontinued as of November 30, 2006.

A wikipedia article explains the situation:

bizSmart was one of the first virtual banks to be opened in Canada during the dot-com era. Its concept was to provide service through bank machines, Web and telephone service, and to provide a human presence by subletting space at retail stores such as Staples]. As the small business electronic banking offering through CIBC, it shares many of the CIBC’s systems including the Automated Teller Machine (ATM) infrastructure.

Its model of customer interaction mostly though automated systems turned out make it difficult to provide efficient customer service through a call center, and thus strained its profitability, and it was absorbed back into CIBC’s mainstream small business offering. bizSmart operated briefly, and stopped accepted new applications on November 7, 2002.

Bizsmart provided no-fee business banking apparently intending to rely on over-draft interest charges to cover operating costs and profits. Low interest rates and the lack of service charges contributed to its lack of profitability. The bank cancelled all existing accounts effective November 30, 2006.

I may have to find another bank for a business account.

I saw a old friend this past weekend. He plays in a band in Toronto, Lickpenny Loafer.

Lickpenny Loafer is:
Arunachal - vocals, guitar
Devin - bass
Mike - drums

To be a musician is not necessarily a choice. Like many other things, it begins and continues on with a slow, rising compulsion. We start with an ideal in mind, only to have it shattered and recreated a thousand more times. Fruition is here today, gone tomorrow. But, there is much solace in the appreciation of the process. For one who is unknown, it can bring tremendous gratification and much needed lift. And so I share my process- not just to energize a waning ego, but to offer another voice for any who wish to hear.

On the way home from work on Wednesday I was waiting in stopped traffic on Bridge and I looked in the rearview mirror. The driver behind me looked familiar. It was Veetay. I waved and he squinted and half-waved back. I stuck my head out the window and called out. He recognized me then and said “Stop by the house.”

He had to stop for gas but he called Ms. Veetay and she received me and we chatted and he soon arrived. Sonia was there too. They invited me to stay for dinner. We had chili. We made plans to plan to get kids together for Oktoberfest.

Magda compares Canadians’ poor impressions of pollution we get from the USA with efforts in Michigan to stop Canadian trash from being accepted into that state.

Trashing someone else’s backyard 1 Sep 2006