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, [...]

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 [...]

Yearly Rethink

One of the reasons I like going to Northern Voice is that it always gives me lots to think about, in terms of what to write about on my blog, what technical tricks to try out, and how to write better. Other people choose their blogiversary, or maybe New Year’s Day, but I find Northern [...]

Vancouver Bits of News

I’m still fighting off a bad cold, so blogging has been light and will be over the next couple of days. Things have still been happening in the world though… or at least in the part of it I inhabit.
Raincity Studios bought Bryght - the Bryght guys (Boris, Roland, Kris, Richard) have been major contributors [...]

Northern Voice Weekend

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), [...]