K’s Weblog

As I promised in last night’s post, I’m using Boston’s free Wi-Fi network to drop a quick email to the Mayors of both Burnaby and Vancouver.  The gist: Free Wi-Fi in urban centres is a great thing.  I decided to include a copy of the email on the blog for anyone who might be interested.
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The city of Boston along with a couple of partners offers free open Wi-Fi in a public area near the harbour.  While the news itself is more than 18 months old, I felt the need to post about it since I only discovered it today.
This is a move by the city of Boston which will [...]

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Cross-posted with Miss604.com
So much in today’s world needs to be justified with numbers showing us that there is a quantifiable value for every decision. When a company spends money, more often than not they want to know how spending that money will make them more money. This is the concept of return on investment [...]

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Last night the CBC, Canada’s national public broadcaster, aired a quiz show which pitted six different groups from all walks of life against one another on a show they’ve called Test The Nation.
This time around the groups were: Chefs, Cabbies, Celebrity Impersonators, Backpackers, Flight Crews and Bloggers.  Members of the blogging team included Vancouver’s own [...]

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Announced at MacWorld yesterday, the MacBook Air is an ultra-thin laptop that is… well… ultra-thin. It skimps out in almost every other facet from storage to expansion ports and still has the same footprint as larger thicker models.
Kevin Naits put together a great little video montage poking fun at the obsessive nature of the [...]

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YouTube has launched a Canadian focused version today.
The Canadian portal will focus on Canadian content, and content uploaded from Canadian YouTube members.
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A new term has started to emerge over the last several months to describe the SPAM you get that’s your own doing. The Term is BACN (note the Web 2.0-esque missing “o”). All of those mailing lists, Facebook notifications, Friendster blog-update alerts and Microsoft VS Developer notices were things that you thought you [...]

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I just caught this over on Rebecca’s blog at Miss604.com, and it made me smile.  Yesterday was Free Hug Day in Vancouver.  Apparently I should have worked from the downtown office yesterday. :P  Here’s hoping that some of this goodwill will carry forward.

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Beginning August 1st, 2007 the Province of BC has started a technology recylcing program.  Titled the “E-Waste Stewardship Program” it will allow BC residents to take their old electronics including:
This marks a great step forward in helping to curb the amount of tech-trash entering BC landfills.  For more informatio on the initiative, visit electronicsrecycling.ca.

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Just a quick update on the Blogathon post I did the other day.  Miss604 has successfully completed her 24-hour blogathon and her readers (myself included) have managed to pool together over $400 for the Surrey Food Bank!
If you’re one of those who made a pledge, be sure to follow up on it… tout de suite!  [...]

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