Once again, it’s time to start planning for SXSWi which is coming up pretty fast in just under two months. It’s the annual ‘geek summer camp’ held in Austin, Texas every March. Check out my previous posts about it to see why you might want to go. Now is the time to start doing a…
This morning I had the pleasure of having breakfast with Jeff Pulver and a few dozen other fine folks at Enigma in Vancouver. Considering it was a pretty early start on a Sunday morning, it was a pretty big turnout. Jeff organizes these ‘social media breakfasts’ all over the world. Using tools like Twitter and…
Earlier this week, I had a chance to attend a special event at the Molson brewery called Brew 2.0. It was to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the brewery in Vancouver and the invite list included many local bloggers and geekerati. I debated on even blogging about this event since there was no expectation of…
A nice diversion from all the iPhone related stuff lately, yesterday a bunch of us (John, Rebecca, Jen, Keira and Amy) went to Playland for the day. It’s our local amusement park that is the foundation for the Pacific National Exhibition which happens later this summer. I thought it might be fun to try and…
In quite possibly one of my favorite Lab with Leo segments ever, Dave Olson chats with Leo about his multimedia publishing empire that started back in the 80’s and how now with the internet, it’s all coming back around, except this time, you don’t have to pay for copies on his parents ditto machine. [flash http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPQgJhmFMPk]…
I finally received my Moo cards that I had ordered at the beginning of February. This was my third batch and it was strangely the only one to take a really long time to arrive. I wonder if it had anything to do with an influx of orders from people getting them for SXSW which…
Thanks to an email from Rebecca, I’ve just joined ‘Team Blogger’ for this years Bowl for Big Brothers Classic event taking place on March 16th. So far I’ll be joining Corinna, Duane, Keira-Anne, John and our team captain, Rebecca. Check out Rebecca’s post if you’re interested in joining the team. The theme this year is…
As if there was any doubt that the Blogger team would win CBC’s Test the Nation. Check out Rebecca (aka Miss604) on national tv talking about her blog and podcast: Get the full scoop and pictures on her blog. Way to go Bloggers! Note to YouTube: I hate your videostill chooser thingy….it is teh suck….