While at An Event Apart SF, I went to look up something on the Victoria Better Web Posse’s site, and was saddened to find that it’s offline, “Address Not Found”. I’ve emailed Gels Saby hoping to find out the status, but haven’t heard back from her yet.
Joan McIlmoyl Cleghorn on the Victoria Linux User Group [...]
Category Archives: British Columbia
Victoria’s Better Web Posse Disbanded?
Stuff White Victoria People Like
Stuff White People Like is coming to Victoria!
Victoria is one of the stops on the book tour. Get your copy of the fresh minted book signed by Christian Lander at Chapters on August 10th, 2:00 p.m. He’ll be in Vancouver a couple of days later.
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BountyUp Media Coverage
An article about my friend Joshua McKenty’s BountyUp is in today’s Times Colonist.
Bounty Up is a service to collect online donations for a project, like the wildly successful MyFreeImplants.com, but for the rest of us — I wish I was kiddin’ about that site’s success. The tagline on BountyUp is “Ask for what you want, [...]
democamp Victoria
The first Victoria DemoCamp is tomorrow 5.30pm, Thursday, April 3rd, 2008 @ 834 Johnson St. (Juliet Living Demo Space, a.k.a. the OLD peacock billiards place). DemoCamp is basically a hipster geek term for people coming together to give demonstrates (or presentations) (practice) on technology products or services (only needs to be loosely related to tech).
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“Fan error”
My ThinkPad t42p is less than two years old, and today it became a paper weight — I hope temporarily.
Thursday Update: Yes, it seems that it was temporary!
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Mercurial No More
“32 of your friends joined the (FaceBook) group ex-Mercs.”
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UVic’s Peter Verin Banned
Anyone, that has gone to the University of Victoria in the last 30 years knows Peter Verin, maybe not by name, but by his presence. Last week the university banned him from campus.
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Technology is the #1 Industry in Greater Victoria!
“With the announcement of Technology being the number one revenue producing industry in Greater Victoria, the timing could not be more perfect to celebrate” reads this week’s VIATeC e-mail bulletin.
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Making Life Better
I imagine there are few feelings that top when people tell you that the software that you contribute to makes their lives better. WordPress, thanks Matt and everyone that have made WordPress!