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 [...]
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 your work is any way related to the web, you will be missing out if [...]
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.
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, [...]
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).
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!
“32 of your friends joined the (FaceBook) group ex-Mercs.”
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.
“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.
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.