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#nv11

That was what we put on the front of the t-shirts this year, #nv11. Some bright spark (I for­get who, sorry, the two days blur together a bit) poin­ted out that the t-shirts were green with NV, which was an impress­ive pun, or at least bet­ter than any­thing I could come up with on my own. […]

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2011 05 18 Conference Comments (1)

Keynotes and Journeys

Every year, when we start organ­ising North­ern Voice, the ques­tion comes up about key­notes. Key­notes set the tone of a con­fer­ence, they indic­ate some­thing of what the organ­ising com­mit­tee is think­ing, or what they think the com­munity that sup­ports the con­fer­ence might want to hear about. This year, I wanted to find someone as a […]

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2011 04 18 Conference Comments (2)

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 […]

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2009 02 22 Conference
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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 […]

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2008 12 31 General
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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 […]

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2008 07 24 Conference
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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, […]

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2008 03 07 Technology
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