Month: June 2007

Gastown Photowalk 2

Earlier this month I grabbed my camera and attended a photowalk in Gastown with a bunch of other photographers. Here’s the fruits of that labour which involved a couple hours of wandering around Gastown, ending up with a cold beer and a full memory card. The best part was freaking out people who happened to…

BarCamp Vancouver 2007

Signups have started for the 2007 installment of BarCamp Vancouver on August 17th/18th. I’ve never been to a BarCamp before and I missed it here last year. I also never got to it when I was in Austin for SXSW the past couple of years either so I don’t want to miss this chance. I’m…

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Tivo in Canada

I had originally planned to post about TiVo and other PVR options but this post is pretty long in just talking about my TiVo experiences so I’ll split the topic into a couple of posts. Stay tuned for future posts about using a PC based PVR solution as well as using an Xbox (the first…

Whoops

Just upgraded to the latest version of WordPress (isn’t that what all geeks do on their vacation?) and of course my theme isn’t compatible…so you get the default until I make it work or find another one. UPDATE: And we’re back…just had to comment out one line of PHP code and the world is once…

The BC Ballyhoo

Back in March while I was at SXSW, I found out about Lucky Oliver which is a stock photography company that allows photographers to sell their wares via the site. I was also interested in them because the quality of the photos is excellent and my day job sometimes requires stock images and in the…