Category Archives: Victoria

Victoria’s Better Web Posse Disbanded?

Posted on August 29, 2008 by Lloyd

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, … Continue reading →

| Tagged Gels Saby, Victoria, Web Design, Web Development, Web Worker | 1 Comment

Drupal Camp Victoria next Weekend

Posted on August 27, 2008 by Lloyd

Drupal Camp Victoria is happening all day Friday and Saturday Sept 5th and 6th. It’s hosted by North Studio at their training center, 301-771 Vernon Ave (plaza just coming into Victoria, near Save-On-Foods, Walmart).
It’s a free event, and if … Continue reading →

| Tagged barcamp, Boris Mann, CMS, Conference, drupal, Drupal Camp, Drupal Camp Victoria, Event, Open Source, Web Developer | Leave a comment

Stuff White Victoria People Like

Posted on July 30, 2008 by Lloyd

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 … Continue reading →

Also posted in Blogging, WordPress.com | Tagged Book Tour, Christian Lander, Humor, Stuff White People Like, Victoria, WordPress.com | Leave a comment

BountyUp Media Coverage

Posted on July 21, 2008 by Lloyd

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 … Continue reading →

| Tagged BountyUp, Donations, fundraising, Joshua McKenty, startup, Victoria, Victoria Technology | Leave a comment

democamp Victoria

Posted on April 2, 2008 by Lloyd

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 … Continue reading →

Also posted in Flock, Personal | Tagged DemoCamp, DemoCamp Victoria, Mark Lise | Leave a comment

“Fan error”

Posted on August 31, 2007 by Lloyd

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!

Also posted in PC | Tagged burning plastic, fan, ibm, laptop, lenovo, Linux, microsoft windows, PC, personal computing, repair, service, t42p, thinkpad, Ubuntu, windows | 18 Comments

Mercurial No More

Posted on July 17, 2007 by Lloyd

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

Also posted in Flock, Work | Tagged Brij Charan, Bryan Hudson, Chris Campbell, Clayton Stark, Ishika Paul, Jacky Zheng, Joshua McKenty, Justin Louie, Len Kirby, Leon Carl, Marcus Redivo, Mark Lise, Raj Paul, Richard Phan, Rick Tessner, Ryan Tomaselli, Steve Bengston | 6 Comments

UVic’s Peter Verin Banned

Posted on June 6, 2007 by Lloyd

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.

Also posted in Community, Free Culture, Humanity | 4 Comments

Technology is the #1 Industry in Greater Victoria!

Posted on May 15, 2007 by Lloyd

“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.

Also posted in Computing | 2 Comments

Own Home

Posted on February 19, 2007 by Lloyd

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 … Continue reading →

Also posted in Julia, Personal | 5 Comments