Skip to content

{ Category Archives } Vancouver

Specific to Vancouver

Northern Voice 2009

I’m slowly recov­er­ing from the whirl­wind that was North­ern Voice this year (I’m one of the organ­isers). All our hard work paid off, we had the usual last-minute glitches but every­one seemed to enjoy them­selves, to make new friends and con­tacts, to learn new things, to dis­cuss issues they care about, and to have fun. On […]

Tagged , ,
2009 02 22 Conference Comments (0)

Snow and snow

We spent Christ­mas and a few days either side in Sakat­chewan, land of –27 C days and even colder nights. But, as it turns out, little snow. Driv­ing along High­way 1 you could see the stubble of plants stick­ing out of the slim white cov­er­ing, giv­ing the hori­zon a green-brown tinge. There was more snow […]

Tagged ,
2008 12 31 General Comments (0)

A Week in August

It seems that August is con­fer­ence sea­son, at least for me. More pre­cisely, one week in August. First Bal­is­age in Mon­tréal (for which the online regis­tra­tion is clos­ing next Fri­day) August 12–15, and then Vinocamp here in Van­couver, at the UBC Botan­ical Garden, on August 16th. I’m speak­ing at the former, and help­ing organ­ise the […]

Tagged , ,
2008 07 24 Conference
Food and Wine
Technology Comments (0)

Copyright for Canada

There’s been a lot of dis­cus­sion in the papers about the newly-tabled Bill on Cana­dian Copy­right; suf­fice to say there are lots of issues with it and it needs to be sent back and turned into some­thing that meets the needs of the cit­izens and res­id­ents of this coun­try. If you’re liv­ing in Canada, I’d […]

2008 06 19 Family Comments (0)

Personal NV Musings

I just got back from the North­ern­Voice organ­iz­ing committee’s post-conference lunch. The con­fer­ence motto is per­sonal blog­ging and social media but lots of people who attend or speak are inter­ested in the pro­fes­sional or cor­por­ate aspect as well. As a res­ult, one of the per­en­nial top­ics we talk about is who the con­fer­ence is for, […]

Tagged
2008 03 13 Conference Comments (0)

Mastering the Digital World

Yes­ter­day I went to the stu­dent show­case at the mas­ters of digital media pro­gram, a gradu­ate degree in digital media put on by Vancouver’s major post-secondary insti­tu­tions. Unfor­tu­nately I had to leave early, but I was impressed at what I saw. The centre is run by Dr. Gerri Sin­clair, whom I’ve known for some time, […]

Tagged ,
2008 03 07 Technology Comments (0)