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New Year, Good News
It’s the end of week 2 since I formally gave my notice. Only 4 more weeks to go. Ay-yay-yay. That’s if they don’t need me in March, as I’ve agreed to help on an as needed basis.
In the meantime, I promised myself I’d relax during the Lunar New Year holiday and enjoy my time spent [...]
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It’s almost official. Barack Obama is the incoming president tomorrow. And, I’m the outgoing (cranky) project manager as of today!
For many of you this isn’t coming as a surprise. You’ve read about my 12-16 hour work days and Saturday schedule. You’ve heard me complain about the lack of creativity required on the job. You’ve experienced [...]
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Tags: Cranky, Job Search, Project Manager, The Client
Shopping Madness
There seems to be no weekend activity more popular for well-to-do Saigonese than to visit their neighborhood electronics store. Today, I went on the hunt for a new webcam (used to have a built-in on my Mac, but alas…).
I found myself among throngs of Vietnamese consumers jammed up against glass displays, hopping from floor [...]
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Tags: E-Commerce, Saigon Life
Scaling Up: Step 1
Well, here we go. I pinged my Managing Director this morning on MSN to set up a time to meet about our Project Supervisor candidates. I also said that we should meet about my late night call with the client on Saturday. A brief chat conversation followed and here’s a direct quote [...]
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Tags: Project Manager, Scaling Up
E-Commerce, Baby!
Have I told you all that I’m really hoping to land a gig at an e-commerce company when I return Stateside? Social media would be cool too, but seems like the state of the economy has killed that buzz.
Anyway, that’s why working with my client is such a great opportunity. I’m getting some [...]
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Tags: E-Commerce, Outsourcing, Social Media, The Client
What’s In It for Me?
I once read that you couldn’t really catch up on sleep. Not true in my experience! I do plenty of sleep-catching up on Sundays! This morning, I woke up for the usual Sunday routine: Get breakfast with the roommate. Today, we had banh cuon (rice paper with fish sauce and pork [...]
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Tags: Project Manager, Saigon Life, Scaling Up
How to Scale Up
What’s the best way to get my original team of 3, to my current team of 20, to a projected team of 50 as soon as possible?
That’s the question that this project manager has to answer over the weekend.
It’s 9 pm. I just parked the moto and ordered some sushi delivery. After a really [...]
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Tags: Project Manager, Scaling Up, The Client
Scribd vs. Issuu
Check out this pretty thing:
That’s a brochure I created a couple years ago at my previous job. Neat ain’t it? This morning, after heading out for pho brekkie with the roommate, relaxing with a cafe sua dua, skyping the family, and then napping (yes, a great start to the new year!), I found myself occuppied [...]
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Tags: Cloud Computing, Social Media
Internet or Sex?
I found this over at Brian Pelz’ Tumbler blog (He’s the founder of Vinagame here in Vietnam). Had to share:
Which would you rather give up for two weeks: internet or sex? Here’s a link to the NY Times BITS blog story: Survey Asks: Internet Access or Sex? Before you click on the link, guess: What [...]
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Tags: Random Stuff Read Online
A Netbook Would Be Neat
For those of you who dont know, well, that would be all of you because I havent told you. Some bunch of punks broke into my house a couple weeks ago and stole everything valuable I own except my passport and cash: i.e., laptop, camera, and phone. Gah. My own fault for sleeping with the [...]
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Tags: Cloud Computing
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