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, [...]

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, [...]

MooseCamp 2008

Another nice Friday in February for MooseCamp; somehow the MooseCamp day managed to score nice weather two years in a row. This year’s MooseCamp was bigger than previous years, and I think we’re getting to the limit of how many people we can take without losing something. We also seem to be getting a lot [...]

Energy Deprivation and NorthernVoice

There’s something about these grey gloomy days that saps my energy. I’m still here, just not blogging much. I do post occasionally to my crafting blog, that seems easier somehow than this “main” blog. I’ll have to think about what that says about my blogging right now. I’m hoping that going to the Northern Voice [...]

Good Support

In the online and software world, there’s “support”, and then there’s support. I’ve discovered my hosting supplier for this blog, Canadian Web Hosting, offers the real type of support. And at a decent price, too.
I run two WordPress blogs, this one and a crafting blog, and had a problem that showed up on one [...]

Blossoming in the Sun

In a city like Vancouver in the depths of winter, when we’re so used to rain, rain, and more rain, to the extent that even the local paper prints “this is getting boring” as the weather forecast, any sun is appreciated. So today’s glorious sunshine, even though accompanied by cold frosts in the morning, was [...]