I had to get up early today. Normally I get up after noon, but today I was up at 9.15 am to drive to Waterloo for an 11 am meeting. I met at Chapters with a guy who's a pretty well-known and -respected businessperson in the local tech community. We talked about many things, including the accelerator, one of the companies he's funding, and obviously Semacode too. I'm trying to recruit him to do some business stuff for me :-) It was a pretty informal chat, about 1.5 hours, at the end I gave him a copy of the bus plan to peruse (with NDA of course!).

Prior to that, on the way up, I did an interview with a woman from a UK marketing mag that went pretty well I thought. We've been trying to connect for weeks, and my schedule doesn't work well with talking to people in Europe because it's 5+ hours there. By the time I get up, they're going home.

And then after all that, I popped over to the accelerator centre to sign some checks and do some bookkeeping type activities. Checked the company voice mail, got VM from a chap in the UK who sounded australian or kiwi, one from a recruiting agency, which I'll probably ignore, since I'm doing my own recruiting for now, and another one that was just static.

So what else is new. I'm writing up an application for a government tax incentive program called SRED (pronounced by everyone "Shred"). It's a Canadian program where you can get back a substantial amount, maybe more than half, of the wages you pay to your R&D staff. I didn't know about this before, but fortunately, SRED is cool because you can file for it AFTER you've paid the people. And then the CRA writes you a cheque.

Oh yes, and I have been doing some software too... mainly right now I'm going through build automation. Build automation = GOOD. Build automation = not worrying that I'm going to release software that isn't what I meant it to be. Consistency, and all that. Oh, and I'm writing manuals for all the software too.