Enterprise Software Founder (2x) both with exits to strategic buyers; community volunteer and engaged citizen to make this a better place for all.
Fredericton, NB
Joined April 2009
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Do things that would make your eight-year-old self happy and your eighty-year-old self proud.
Change requires letting a former version of yourself die.
Therefore, maturity is a series of small funerals for the people you used to be.
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I was in Toronto last weekend to shadow TCS Toronto Waterfront Marathon and its EOC. Working on operations for the Fredericton Marathon 2027 has been an interesting journey into locations and mobile GPS tracking, building on the planning module I developed for 2026.
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.@Dave_Eby was an unmitigated disaster for BC & for Canada. He embraced every destructive progressive policy fad—drug decrim, genderwang, unmarked-graves social panic—and it is a special treat to see his arrogant election gambit end with his humiliation
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Spent the last 2 weeks in Canada, and it's immediately clear why America will keep its competitive advantage forever.
Don't get me wrong, I love Canada! It's beautiful out here, and the people themselves are also lovely.
But! There is a serious lack of ambition, and an enormous amount of averseness to risk in a way that is not really fixable imo
Canada will struggle to find another stock-market success story like Shopify as the country grapples with a public-listing drought and a delisting trend, according to Daniel Nowlan at National Bank Capital Markets bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
Last night…saw the event posted for a riding constituency meeting. Hit the ‘going’ button & suggested the councilors for Wards 10 & 9 be invited.
This morning….lets change the event. Hum…
When will Ward 10 residents have a meeting? There is a lot going on. #nbpoli
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They love to send seniors and others with medical problems into a free for all.
Then they’ll call your house with no caller ID and, if you don’t answer b/c you don’t know who’s calling you’ll get a letter saying they’re taking you off the list of those who need a doctor.
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The government cannot simultaneously claim that they have "brought immigration back under control" while also insisting it wasn't broken prior.
Otherwise, why would it need to be brought under control?
Charles should invite members of Holt gov ministerial task force on ‘homelessness’ for lunch to see how their inaction at scale the crisis demands is unfolding downtown #Fredericton
These people need help, some involuntary, not enforcement. #nbpoli youtu.be/nLRQ9GTGxhk?si=C9yl…
I thought the NB Health Link was a wait list and it would be the source for attaching patients by some rubric like need and time without access to primary care.
But just like the decision where to expand, Holt government has no plan for attaching…except a free for all. #nbpoli
When I was a senior executive in private sector, I knew the key details of my department and company.
I expect the NB minister for mental health & addictions to know the wait times for care.
He didn’t have an answer on InfoAM this morning. Not even a directional idea. #nbpoli
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Security called me at 6:12 AM today.
"Patch every PHP server immediately."
I asked what happened.
"Two critical vulnerabilities. Remote code execution. No authentication required."
Cool.
How many PHP servers do we have?
According to inventory: 12
According to reality:
Nobody knows.
We found one running WordPress.
Three running old internal tools.
One under someone's desk.
Two inside vendor appliances.
A forgotten employee directory from 2016.
And a server named:
PHP-OLD-DO-NOT-TOUCH
Naturally, that one runs payroll exports.
Then we found a PHP 5.6 box.
I asked who owned it.
The documentation said:
BRIAN.
Brian left in 2019.
We called Brian.
He said:
"Oh wow, that's still running?"
Excellent.
By 8 AM, leadership joined the incident call.
CEO:
"Can hackers actually get in?"
Security:
"Potentially yes."
CEO:
"Without a password?"
Security:
"Yes."
CEO:
"Then why do WE need passwords?"
Not the lesson.
Finance asked if we could wait until the weekend to patch because downtime affects revenue.
Security explained that the alternative was letting strangers execute code on our servers.
Finance asked for a cost comparison.
At 9:17, someone suggested temporarily taking the vulnerable websites offline.
Marketing refused.
"Our campaign is live."
So for the next hour, the company officially decided maintaining a landing page for 20% off webinar registration was more important than preventing remote server takeover.
We finally patched everything we could find.
Then our scanner discovered another PHP server.
Hostname:
TEMP-PHP-2014
Uptime:
4,512 days.
Nobody knows what it does.
Nobody owns it.
Nobody can shut it down.
But every time we block network access, the warehouse stops printing shipping labels.
Security has classified it as critical infrastructure.
It is running PHP 5.4.
The vulnerability has existed longer than half our employees.
The emergency patch took four hours.
Finding out what PHP actually runs took eleven.
The internet isn't held together with code.
It's held together with servers everyone is afraid to turn off.
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Via former Canada PM Justin Trudeau in March 2021: "It is because of companies like Lion Electric that we are accelerating our transition to a resilient and competitive clean growth economy.”
RCMP raids Quebec-based bus maker Lion Electric ctvnews.ca/montreal/article/…
“….more to say in the coming days.’ Okay, we will wait for another nothing update in a few days. Paper tiger #cdnpoli
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It has been a very busy few days - and today marked the opening of a new session of the Legislature. I am excited to move forward together as a team!
Ces derniers jours ont été très chargés, et aujourd’hui a marqué l’ouverture d’une nouvelle session de l’Assemblée législative. Je suis ravi d’aller de l’avant avec vous, en équipe!
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Foursquare was acquired last month. The outcome was disappointing. It's taken me a while to write this, but I think I'm finally done grieving it. Here are some thoughts on our final years, an effort to honor the team who helped build & maintain FSQ's legacy, and my attempt to finally get some closure. teendrama.substack.com/p/som…
“Delivering Change,” says the Holt government. Felt by whom?
Last year: targets for patient attachment and appointments within five days. This year: 22 clinics, with no accounting against those targets in the speech.
My latest: thomjeffwrites.substack.com/… #nbpoli
The majority of New Brunswickers will not see themselves in the Holt Government’s Throne Speech and will ask in what alternate reality is being told this afternoon. #nbpoli
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The man accused of deliberately running over an Australian MP and leaving her fighting for her life has been identified as a radical anti-Israel climate campaigner.
Brendan Nugent, 43, was arrested after Helen Haines, a centrist independent, was struck by a car outside her MP office in Victoria on Monday afternoon - seeing her suffer severe lower body injuries and lose her leg.
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