Archive for July 7th, 2006
The gist of the first half of the day was “Small is Good”. Small companies, small teams, small successes, small communities. It felt a little like a revival town hall meeting with people saying things like, “I’m John and I have a small company that allows me to stay home with my kids and I’m [...]
For reasons related to work, I spent yesterday NOT attending Gnomedex but I did manage to make the dinner and get together afterwards. There was a large Vancouver contingent there. All of the usual suspects – Boris Mann, Darren Barefoot and his lovely wife Julia, Andre Charland from e-business Applications, and the entire Qumana crew [...]
If you haven’t read the LA Times article, the Men’s Health article, or the Men’s Journal article on Crossfit, you might not know what it is. It is a fitness regimen/program that started in LA about ten years ago and that is now spreading across North America, and which is favoured by the firefighting, police, [...]
I picked up a MacBook13 Black the other day with 2GB of RAM and a 120GB hard drive from the good people over at the Yaletown location of MacStation. (Thanks Paul and Harald!) This is probably one of the nicest pieces of Apple hardware I have ever had the good fortune of owning – sort [...]
