Pierre Grandmaison Personal Blog

Y-M-C-A! Going to the Y-M-C-A!

Administrator — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 13:24:02 +0000

After two years of working my finger muscles, I have decided to finally get out and start working out with my fiance Melissa and my friend Allain. At this old age we’re getting, we figured it’s time to get in shape to stay healthy
Look for us at the 2010 olympics in the weight lifting division!!!

BC, here I come!

Administrator — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 13:16:00 +0000

The farthest I had been so far in my life was Edmonton Alberta. Well, in less than 2 weeks I’ll be heading further to Victoria, BC and Vancouver, BC to go visit a nice customer we have over there. What’s nice is that I think it’s been a couple years since I saw Brad, it’s about darn time we meet again after running Zenutech successfully all these years.
It should be pretty interesting.

new laptop

Administrator — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 13:09:48 +0000

Just thought I’d write a litle something on the new laptop I aquired last week on a dell business lease.
I went for the Inspiron 9400 for maximum screen space (17 inch). I can never seem to have enough screen space, especially on a laptop.
I think it will last me for a good 3 years with the specs I upgraded to. (2 GB RAM, etc)
I will be mostly useful on my trips when I visit my parents and business trips, as carrying my desktop had become way too pain-in-the-butt.

It’s definitely not the most liteweight laptop though, but that’s the price to pay when you want 17 inch.
Brad tried to convince me on a mac. I dunno but I don’t think I’ll ever be able to switch over. I hate having to learn how to re-use a computer. Same like Ill likely have a hard time upgrading to windows vista. I use my computer for getting work done, and I don’t really care how windows stores my pictures

Sporting it up!

Administrator — Sun, 04 Jun 2006 02:41:10 +0000

Well, it’s about that time of the year to get in shape…
So I’ve joined the Fredericton Ultimate league, and the Fredericton Beach volleyball league.

It looks like it’s going to be lots of fun. Melissa’s also on the ultimate team. Oh and we won our first ultimate game of the season…we played amazing. Go Deep Throat go! (Hey, I didn’t pick the name, don’t blame me!)

Unfortunately, I wasn’t so luck on the sand playing volleyball. Our team took a loss against one of the best teams of the league. We’ll try again next Monday against a likely-to-be less-experienced team.

Zenutech - Lots of things on the horizon

Administrator — Sun, 04 Jun 2006 02:27:44 +0000

Brad and I have been working very hard in the last couple months to continue to improve both our business and its services.
We’ve recently launched a new front page on our web site as an effort to convert more visits to sales. We both believe that this new front page better showcases the great features of Zenutech.

We’ve also recently entered in several new marketing campaigns and things are looking great so far. The ROI so far has been attained, and it can only be surpased once WOM kicks in (word of mouth)

In the last month, we’ve purchased a new server and a new cisco switch. Next week I’ll be going to Montreal and we will be moving all servers to a new data center (Canix 2) where a brand new room with new cabinets are waiting for us. The current data center has run out of room and we don’t have space for new servers!

We have several greats things on the horizon for Zenutech:

1) Migration to a BGP4 high quality network. This will be a great improvement in redundancy. Currently, we rely on the high quality peer1 bandwidth solely. In the new BGP4 infrastructure, we will be receiving bandwidth from multiple high quality providers (to ensure we stay up if one provider such as peer1 is down)
2) Addition of PHP5, FastCGI and Ruby on Rails (oooooohhh , yes Brad - it’s coming!)
3) Addition of JSP/Java servlet hosting services
4) New features in the control panel
5) Addition of Windows Web Hosting coming soon as well

The addition of all these improvements will obviously span several months, but that is what’s hapenning at Zenutech!

Summary of year 2005

Administrator — Sun, 29 Jan 2006 03:42:25 +0000

As I havn’t posted since I started this blog, I figured I would give a summary of the year 2005.
The fun really started in the summer. The summer in Ottawa with my girlfriend and a great group of co-ops was an absolute blast. Events like beach volleyball, busriding, bungee jumping, swiming in the coldest lake ever, more bus riding, almost playing golf, go kart racing in pooring rain & thunder and lightning & more… all in good fun.
Oh and did I mention the parties and poker tournements? Poor Alan at Showfields, a little too much drinkin’ huh? I hope you’ve recovered by now!

I am posting a bunch of pictures from 2005 in the pictures section. Feel free to look.

More work being done

Administrator — Thu, 07 Jul 2005 02:13:41 +0000

Some updates under way:
- fixing the pictures section a little more the way I want it
- Post pictures
- Doing a better Contact page

So it’s coming along…

Web Site is under construction

Administrator — Sun, 03 Jul 2005 05:08:38 +0000

Set your alarm for a couple days in the future, and when it goes off, come back here.

It’s not ready yet!