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Hamilton Spectator – now with a paywall

I stumbled across an interesting development this morning. The Hamilton Spectator, my hometown newspaper, recently erected a paywall. A quick google search told me that the paywall was installed a month ago (On or around September 13 2011). This appears to be Torstar’s first experiment with the paywall model. (I could be wrong, so feel […]

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How to Pass the PMP Exam – Part 3 (of 5): study

4. Obtain 35 contact hours: PM Prepcast ($99!) You must complete 35 contact hours (formal PM training by a certified PMI training provider) in order to quality for the PMP exam. This is normally the most expensive part of the exam process. In class courses cost anywhere from $2000 to $4000 dollars for the 5 […]

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How to Pass the PMP Exam – Part 2 (of 5): prep work

1. Read a good overview book: I used the book I used PMP Exam Prep, Sixth Edition by Rita Mulcahy. . It is the top rated book on Amazon. I took a close look at a couple of other books and I suspect that any of these three would be a fine choice. The key […]

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How to Pass the PMP Exam

I recently wrote PMI’s PMP exam. I was nervous leading up to the exam, but I was well prepared for the exam and I attribute that to careful preparation. Here’s the study and preparation plan that I used (many thanks to Stephen Lee for his helpful advice in formulating this plan). Here’s the plan in […]

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Mac Apps for Mac Addicts

From time to time, I stumble across posts that contain a ton of links to useful Mac apps. But, even with delicious.com bookmark tracking and/or sending the link to my email I still manage to lose track of those links. Today, I stumbled across a really great list of Mac apps. And, rather than link to it […]