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Dragonette Live

October 14, 2009
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I caught Dragonette at the launch party for MSN.ca a couple of weeks ago and was pretty impressed. I’m fond of their synth-pop-cut-with-guitars sound and am going to have to get my hands on their new album.
I took some shots of their performance; you can either check out this Flickr photoset or watch the slideshow [...]

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Scenes from the Windows 7 Hardware Media Event / Appearing Tonight on InnerSPACE

October 8, 2009
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Here are some photos I took at Monday’s Windows 7 media event showing off the latest Windows 7-compatible computers from six vendors:

The participating vendors were:

Dell
Hewlett-Packard
Lenovo
LG
Sony
Toshiba

The whole day was a non-stop demo from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., with journalists both mainstream and tech, associated with an organization or independent, [...]

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Slice of Life: Where I am Today

October 5, 2009
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I’m working out of the building known as “The Richmond” today, participating in a showcase of Windows 7-ready hardware for the media. As of this writing, I’ve done demos of Windows 7 on an HP TouchSmart computer hooked to a Sony Bravia TV equipped with DLNA for a number of journos for various media outlets [...]

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Slice of Life: It’s Beer O’Clock

September 30, 2009
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A couple of photos from the bar after last night’s FailCamp:

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How to Get to FailCamp Toronto 3 from Union Station

September 29, 2009
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Most of you will be heading to FailCamp via public transit, and many have asked how to get to FailCamp’s venue, the South Building of the Metro Toronto Convention Centre, from Union Station – here’s how!
First, go up to the main level of Union Station, which looks like this:

On the west end of the [...]

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Slice of Life: Oooh! Kosher Hot Dog Vending Machine!

September 29, 2009
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Take a gander at this – it’s a Maven’s Kosher Foods vending machine. It will cook and serve a kosher hot dog – the food of my in-laws! – on the spot for you, in exchange for five dollars:

There are a couple of these at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre, where I’m spending the [...]

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11 Months as a Microsoft Man

September 21, 2009
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While Kris Krug was taking photos of me for TechDays, his assistant Danielle was holding up a light reflector and remarking that I seemed to really love my job. I hadn’t yet told her that I really loved my job; I was just doing my thing, running my track of the conference, chatting up [...]

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Slice of Life: Official Photos from Techdays

September 20, 2009
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For the TechDays conference’s stops in Vancouver and Toronto, Microsoft hired Vancouver-based photog extraordinaire Kris Krug to take photos of the Developer and Platform Evangelism team, which includes Yours Truly. The photos were taken during the conference, which meant that most of us were wearing the official TechDays shirts, which were colour-coded to match the [...]

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Slice of Life: Teppanyaki Onion Volcano

September 17, 2009
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The scene: one of the tables at the teppanyaki restaurant Kobe in downtown Vancouver. We’d just wrapped up running the TechDays Vancouver conference and were having a celebratory dinner.
Here’s a classic bit of teppanyaki stagecraft, the onion volcano, getting put together:

Here’s chef Eric filling it with cooking oil as my co-worker Rick Claus looks [...]

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Slice of Life: I See That Steamworks Carries My Favourite Magazine

September 16, 2009
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Steamworks’ Gastown pub, located right by Vancouver’s waterfront, is falling distance from the Fairmont Waterfront hotel, which is where I usually stay when I’m flying in for business. They brew some tasty beer and serve great pub fare and in my experience the service goes above and beyond what you’d normally expect.
A couple of [...]

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Slice of Life: Happy New Underwear Day!

September 15, 2009
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Seen outside Smart Mouth Cafe in Vancouver’s Gastown neighbourhood:

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Slice of Life: Working Away at the Smart Mouth Cafe

September 13, 2009
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My co-worker Rick Claus (that’s him in the photo above) and I have spent the morning working on the final preparations for Microsoft Canada’s TechDays Vancouver conference at the Smart Mouth Cafe in Vancouver’s Gastown neighbourhood. It’s a rather nice place the work, the staff are friendly, the coffee’s pretty good, and the bar [...]

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Slice of Life: Bacon Covered with Chocolate

September 4, 2009
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There was one unhealthy food item at the CNE that I didn’t order:

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Your First Warning: Vancouver, September 11 – 18

September 3, 2009
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I’m going to be in Vancouver from the afternoon of Friday, September 11th until the morning of Friday, September 18th. I’m there first and foremost to manage the “Developing for the Microsoft-Based Platform” track of the TechDays conference, then to meet up with the local tech community, but also to enjoy the city I [...]

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Slice of Life: Taco in a Bag!

September 2, 2009
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The Ginger Ninja and I went back to the Canadian National Exhibition yesterday to catch the Superdogs, see the sights and sample some more so-bad-it’s-good food. One item on our list was Taco in a Bag, which many people speak of only in hushed tones.

Taco in a Bag is made by taking a bag of [...]

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