Category Archives: Victoria

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, let the crowd pay for [...]

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).

“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!

Mercurial No More

“32 of your friends joined the (FaceBook) group ex-Mercs.”

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.

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.

Own Home

Yesterday, Julia and I made an offer on a house that was accepted!
We have a lot to do this week to remove our “conditions”. We are both excited, though both appreciate we are at the beginning of the process.
Update: we withdrew our offer.

My Valentine

Julia is my valentine!
I find it hard to get excited about Valentine’s day, but I did well this year.

Computer Clubbin’ in Victoria

I have updated my list of Computer Clubs in Victoria which I started as a discussion on VLUG’s mailing list.

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