Today was my turn to take the boy to his soccer camp; it also turned out to be the day after the police shot someone on a main street. The aforesaid street was completely closed down for a block which caused a certain amount of traffic havoc. I got a close-up look at the deserted [...]
The Moose Fever that befell what seems to be half the NorthernVoice attendees (although to be fair, lots of other people I know in Vancouver are down with the flu as well, it seems particularly virulent this year) is slowly loosening its grip. It’s more than a little disconcerting when you go through the list [...]
The weekend is going to be full of Northern Voice, I can just tell. The must-dos for me are the dinner on the Thursday evening (sorry, sold out), the unconference day on the Friday (I’ll be going to the session on identity and privacy of course, and whatever else takes my fancy once I’m there), [...]
Tagged northernvoice, nv07, VancouverAs the title says, the NorthernVoice conference, to be held February 23 and 24 at the Forestry Sciences Centre at UBC, is almost sold out. As of Friday, there were only 50 spots left, and I’m sure at least some of those are now gone. So if you want to be there, now’s the time [...]
The registration is open for Northern Voice 2007 and the speaker submissions will be closing on Friday December 1st. We extended the deadline to let people recover from the torrential downpours, record snowfalls, high winds, and assorted other drawbacks of November in the Pacific North-West.
And if you want a t-shirt, you can vote on [...]
The advisory to boil water remains in Vancouver even though there was a lot less rain at the weekend than was forecast. The scenes of panic reported on in the paper on Saturday are, it is to be hoped, a thing of the past as people realise that boiling water isn’t all that hard, and [...]
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