July 2007
240 posts
Richard: blast from the past: I took the week off on this day in 2004 http://tinyurl.com/yuoosv (via Twitter / Richard)
Just a Gwai Lo: Perception of Functionality Trumps...
From John Gruber’s first impressions of iPhone: “Booting: A cold boot takes about 20 seconds. (Sleep/wake is effectively instantaneous – far faster than any Mac.)”
From Eastern Standard Tribe by Cory Doctorow:
There was a cheap Malaysian comm that he’d once bought because of its hyped up de-hibernate feature — its ability to go from its deepest power-saving sleepmode to full...
June 2007
170 posts
Just a Gwai Lo: Chad Graham got invited to a...
I was even shown places they weren’t supposed to show me by accident and had to delete a bunch of photos before I left the ship. [link] (via Richard Eriksson aggregator)
Urban Vancouver: A Welcome Change From Urban...
This morning, instead of working from home as I had promised, I ducked out to ride around my neighbourhood for a half hour before the deluge predicted by Claire Martin. A half an hour turned into an hour and a half, and took the route that I decided will be the route to work. Mostly downhill, and not scary downhill like Union which levels off just as it crosses with Boundary. And under the...
Just a Gwai Lo: A Welcome Change From Urban...
This morning, instead of working from home as I had promised, I ducked out to ride around my neighbourhood for a half hour before the deluge predicted by Claire Martin. A half an hour turned into an hour and a half, and took the route that I decided will be the route to work. Mostly downhill, and not scary downhill like Union which levels off just as it crosses with Boundary. And under the...
Richard: KEXP uses the start of DJ Shadow’s “Changeling” (which happens to be my favourite song by him), to introduce their online stream (via Twitter / Richard)
Just a Gwai Lo: Vancouver add-on for Flight...
Also includes Pitt Meadows Airfield and Langley Airfield. [link] (via Richard Eriksson aggregator)
Richard: @adamrg: hopefully you weren’t seated at a table sitting between a married woman and a lesbian like I was once (via Twitter / Richard)
Just a Gwai Lo: Elaine Corden loves the CBC, but...
The second link in her post is to an article in The Tyee she wrote about the wishlist. [link] (via Richard Eriksson aggregator)
Richard: I count at least 9 services that should’ve supported logging in with my OpenID URL by now, some of which are OpenID providers themselves (via Twitter / Richard)
Urban Vancouver: Vancity Bike Share Launch
[Cross-posted from my personal weblog.]
This morning, Roland, Karen and I went to the launch of Vancity Bike Share, to wait in line and eat pancakes served by Libby Davies, Gregor Robertson, and Shane Simpson, all BC MLA and pick up my shiny red, Vancity logo-emblazoned one-speed cruiser plus non-branded red bike lock and non-branded red helmet. And a Vancity logo-emblazoned red t-shirt. ...
Just a Gwai Lo: Vancity Bike Share Launch
This morning, Roland, Karen and I went to the launch of Vancity Bike Share, to wait in line and eat pancakes served by Libby Davies, Gregor Robertson, and Shane Simpson, all BC MLA and pick up my shiny red, Vancity logo-emblazoned one-speed cruiser plus non-branded red bike lock and non-branded red helmet. And a Vancity logo-emblazoned red t-shirt. Pretty good score for writing a 98-word blog...
Richard: still waiting for someone to explain what problem Freebase solves for me that Wikipedia doesn’t (via Twitter / Richard)
