I’m in Vancouver for one more night before flying off to Montreal to speak at CUSEC.
I’m meeting up with Boris Mann and the Vancouver Bloggers tonight at 6:00 p.m. at The End Cafe (2360 Commercial Drive). See you there!
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Author: Joey deVilla
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Vangroovy Scenery
Hello from Vangroovy! I’m at the Vancouver Convention Center to speak at the Microsoft Techdays Canada conference.
Here’s the Centre, as shown on the web site and postcards. It does look like this in the summer:
Here are the photos I took looking out onto the ocean from the Centre this morning:
My hotel is across the street from the Centre, so I didn’t wear a coat today. The doorman looked a bit worried when I passed him, but I said “Don’t worry. Next to last week’s weather in Toronto, this is tropical.”
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Congratulations, America!
Here’s a greeting card for my American friends to commemorate the inauguration of President Obama:
Yes, you can!
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In Transit
Flying to Vancouver today to speak at TechDays Vancouver tomorrow. If you’re in the ‘hood and want to catch up and talk tech, accordions or whatnot, drop me a line!
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The “Heavy Metal Band Names” Chart
If you’re looking for a name for your heavy metal band, you might find the chart below helpful:
Click the chart to see it at full size.
Found via The Triumph of Bullshit.
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I Couldn’t Resist
You can make your own Obama “Hope”-style poster in the style of Shepard Fairey’s work at the Obamicon.me site.
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A Question Worth Pondering
(Pardon the hasty editing job with the photo above. I was trying to replicate the style of Obama’s posters. Surely there’s a Photoshop filter to do that sort of thing?)
Here’s a question posed by Joseph Weisenthal, who posts messages on Twitter as “The Stalwart”. Since it’s the end of a particularly controversial eight-year U.S. presidential term, there’s a lot of looking back over the past 8 years. That’s what makes his question so interesting to me right now:
The tweet reads:
Survey: Are you, PERSONALLY, better off today than you were eight years ago? I’ll start off: yes.
It’s a question worth considering. Forgetting for the moment any feelings that you have about the current U.S. Presidential administration or any policies that did not have a direct effect on you (this will vary depending on where you live) – is your life better today, January 2009, than it was eight years ago, January 2001?
My answer is “yes”.
I’ll write more later, but in the meantime, what’s your answer? Post it in the comments!