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Lately I asked a dear friend if she’d made any resolutions for the New Year. She responded “The month is too depressing as it is to beat myself up on top of that.”

I had to think about this a moment. I’d never looked at the resolutions made in January as a way of punishing ourselves.

For me, the new year brings a clean slate, freshness, new beginnings and hope!

Of course we could look at each month/week/day/minute as a new beginning, but it seems that in January I like to take inventory of the previous year, and do more of what brings me satisfaction and less of what didn’t feel so good.

So, what are my ‘resolutions’?

PERSONAL
Live in the moment, spend more time with family & friends. Laugh as much as possible. Reward my body with delicious healthy food, and good exercise.

WORK
Be pickier about my clients and really enjoy the ones I have. Great clients make life a dream – one bad client can ruin all the fun!

SPIRITUAL
Pray lots, make more room in my life for God, love & acceptance, patience, grace, forgiveness and charity. Count my blessings everyday… the glass is always completely full!

I LOVE January!

How do you feel about making resolutions in the New Year? Make ‘em? Fake ‘em? or Bake ‘em?

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On behalf of JenTekk Web Solutions and Associates, I wish you a very Merry Christmas and a prosperous New Year.

May it be full of joy, laughter and much love!

Look closer… much closer! If it looks too good to be true, it is! Scams are everywhere, and unless people blow the horn on them, they will continue to take advantage of unsuspecting people.

Today I received the following (read below) money transfer scam email in my company inbox.

It is much like the “Mystery Shopper Scam” that I received and blogged about a while back, in that you are told you will receive payment (money orders/checks) to be cashed at your Bank, you deduct 10%, which will be your percentage/pay on Payment processed and then forward the balance via Western Union Money Transfer according to the instructions.

What happens in reality is this… you forward money from your bank account to these crooks, and when you find out that the cheques/money orders are fraud your money is gone, and there’s no way of getting it back.

Does this sound familiar? It’s the Mystery Shopper Scam all over again, only now posing simply as an emailed “Job Offer”.

Read the email for yourself and be warned!

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I was surfing through JenTekk old site design folders and came upon the original site design – from back in 2001, and several others that followed.

They were experiments in color and style, but mostly reflected the fact that I really was still trying to find my own identity and my own personal website design style.

I will post them from the earliest to the latest, its been quite the journey. Enjoy!

2001: JenTekk’s first website – static

Not bad for a first try, but after a while I felt it was too conservative, too blue.

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August 28th, I received an email from BC Academic Health Council asking if I was interested in creating a magazine website for e-HLbc – Electronic Health Library of BC. This was to be another one of the many initiatives of the BCAHC.

When I heard that they were interested in using Joomla 1.5 CMS – naturally I said yes!

Before – preliminary mock-up

Attached was a preliminary design…

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I first met Michael-James Pennie at a Tazzu networking even a few years back. I know him as a remarkable, upbeat and positive man.

What I didn’t know about him was that his family has been coping with a debilitating disease that has afflicted his father, Jim, over the past several years.

Back in 2003, Jim, was diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer’s disease.

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JenTekk is proud to sponsor Rebecca Bollwitt aka Miss 604 in Blogathon Vancouver.

About Rebecca
Rebecca has been blogging about Vancouver since 2004 and podcasting with her husband since 2005.

In love with all things West Coast and the Canucks, Rebecca produces live blogs for clients and conferences, and is a co-host of both RadioZoom and The Crazy Canucks podcasts.

Known as “Podcaster, hyper-local blogger, new media outreach wiz, mainstream media pundit ~ Vancouver’s new ‘blogebrity,’…” [Vancouver Tech Women to Watch in 2008] Rebecca is no stranger to supporting local community causes. You can see some of her causes at Blogging for a Cause.

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