One of the many benefits of the BC Media Centre is that all sorts of cool things come through here. The other day, Lord Stanley’s Cup stopped by:
The rules as told by Craig & Phil (who are Archivists for the Hockey Hall of Fame) is that anyone can touch, hug, kiss the Cup, but in order to be able to lift the Cup, you have to win it.
I’m happy with my hug.
The 2007 BarCamp Vancouver is over and it was a lot of fun. This was my first BarCamp and wasn’t quite sure what to expect. Friday night was the ‘bar’ part of BarCamp which comes before the main event all day Saturday. Got to meet and talk to a ton of cool people, some of…
During our recent roadtrip to Austin, Texas, I was able to try out the new Extreme Pro SDHC UHS memory cards from Sandisk. As far as I know, these are the fastest SHDC cards out there (technically they aren’t out in Canada until mid-April) with a whopping 45 MB/s read/write speed (300x) with the new…
I attended the Vancouver Canucks Tailgate party and new uniform launch thingy at GM Place today. It was nice to jump on the seabus and get out of the office for a bit. Of course they picked seemingly the hottest day of the summer so far to do it. There were a lot of people…
A quick detour on the way to work yielded this pre-dawn shot of Vancouver from the Cypress Mountain lookout: It was friggin’ cold though…next time I’ll plan ahead and bring a jacket (I wasn’t quite prepared for the winter temperatures since I was going to work).
While trolling around eBay, I stumbled across this extension tube for about $10 USD delivered from Hong Kong which attaches to the screw mount on my Nikon P6000: The build quality and finish of the tube is almost a perfect match to the P6000. Nikon sells a similar tube (for around $40 CDN) which has…
This morning, Gordon Campbell, Premier of British Columbia opened the BC International Media Centre and took the first ‘official’ ride on the zipline over Robson Square: I said ‘official’ because ZipTrek staff have apparently been riding it for a few days testing it all out…after seeing the Premier on it today, I can’t wait for…