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Free Wi-Fi in the Lower Mainland?

May 11th, 2008 5 Comments

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 [...]

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Justifying Chill Out Spaces

January 29th, 2008 No Comments

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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Bloggers Rule! – CBC’s Test The Nation

January 22nd, 2008 No Comments

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 [...]

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MacBook Air: An Obsession with Thin

January 16th, 2008 4 Comments

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 dot CA eh?

November 6th, 2007 No Comments

YouTube has launched a Canadian focused version today. The Canadian portal will focus on Canadian content, and content uploaded from Canadian YouTube members. [youtube:http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=_y5MfzSnFLM]

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