Where's usability guru Jakob Nielsen when you need him? CanWest's Canada.com has been such an eyesore for so many years, if it weren't free I'm sure many wouldn't buy their online presentation of the news. I bet there are tons who love their "digital edition" (screenshot above) but I think it's a pain. You can […]
Hearing the sad news this morning that Hollywood icon Paul Newman died at age 83 of cancer, I paused for a moment to think of some of his on screen work that touched me. Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid, The Sting, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, The Colour of Money, The Hustler…the list […]
Happy 10th Birthday, Google. You’ve been a good kid. I first read about you when you were only four months old (thank you, Scott Rosenberg of Salon.com for the introduction). Soon, you’ll be in your teens. Lots more responsibility. Tons of homework. A driver’s license. Will you be a trustworthy youth? The data you’re gathering […]
What do you say when someone representing a brewery calls and asks you if you want a night out on the beer? Err… yes? Finally, blogging has paid off for me. Years of tapping the keyboard resulted in a lovely reward: beer. Mmm. Actually, it was a pretty cool roll-out of the new Rickards White […]
I attended the Metro Vancouver sustainability breakfast for the first time this morning. The topic was bottled water, why we should ban it, how to wean schools off it and what constitutes “pure” drinking water. I learned a bunch of facts which I can hardly sum up in this post, but here are a few […]
The work of the Vancouver City Planning Commission has reached a feverish pace as we come to the end of our 2007-2008 program we’ve labeled, A City Built for Change. Tomorrow night a lecture takes place at the Vancouver Museum (aka The Planetarium) featuring Professor Robert Kronenburg, Head of the Dept. of Architecture, University of […]
I haven’t blogged for a while, so here’s something to fill the void: Ace Frehley truly showing what screaming white hot guitar solos are all about. Gawd, I do love this stuff.