Dave Olsen stopped by Workspace this evening to cheer some of us on and tell us a bit about the social/indie/citizen media project he’s working on for the 2010 Olympics this year, the True North Media House. From the TNMH website: We intend to create a space in downtown Vancouver to serve as a media […]
Posts Categorized: Blogathon 2009
Blogathon 2009: A Confession
Last year, I was working as a web developer for the Masters of Digital Media program at the Great Northern Way Campus here in Vancouver. Having left, I want to apologize for something I did while I was there. MDM students, remember how I told a bunch of you that I had a key that led […]
Blogathon 2009: I’m only happy when it rains.
Unexpectedly, it seems that the lower mainland is getting a bit of rain today! “Chance of cloud” in Vancouver turned into thundershowers in the Fraser Valley. There’s already been a couple lightning strikes in the PoCo area, by the sound of the thunder. I love how a thunderstrike brings up multiple “Wow, lightning! Did you […]
Blogathon 2009: Catherine’s Safari 4 Review
So I switched to Safari 4 from Firefox recently. The end. Yeah, there’s more, actually. First, the good parts, the ones that were enough to make me give up Firefox: It’s fast. Really, really fast. Pages you visit get indexed in OSX’s Spotlight. It’s like Google Desktop for Firefox, only not totally ridiculous. While Safari doesn’t […]
Blogathon 2009: WordPress, WordPress, WordPress!
This is what happens when you spend all day at Blogathon: “Catherine, do you want anything?“ “No, I’ll get something upstairs at WordPress.“ ”…what?” “Raul, is that your phone?“ “No, it’s WordPress’–WordCamp–Work. Space. It’s Workspace’s phone.”
Blogathon 2009: 3 killed, 14 injured. Also, kitty videos!
So this has been bugging me for a long time: Digg.com seems to have grown past the point of usefulness lately. Digg is ostensibly a link-sharing site, where the most popular sites people are reading and voting upon are promoted to the front page. The downside to this is that popularity does not equal relevance. […]
Blogathon 2009: Mid-day pledge updates
I’m happy to report that despite my late entry and current sleep deprivation, the current pledges for the Canadian Cancer Society are up to $118 from two donors. So thanks, you guys. I’ll be posting on your requested subjects shortly! (Remember, donations to the Canadian Cancer Society buy you a post on the topic of your […]
Blogathon 2009: In which Catherine is now a cyclist for some reason
So I’ve mentioned this here a few times, but haven’t gone into huge amounts of detail: I have a bicycle again! It’s a Kuwahara-built Apollo road bike, with a 62cm frame with double-butted Tange 900 chromoly steel tubes. From 1984, if the serial number is accurate at all. I bought the frame separately, though it […]
Blogathon 2009: Refueling
Ahh, delicious, delicious food. Courteously donated by Dairy Queen, as it happens. They just delivered it so we’re currently all chowing down. A few people here raised the point earlier that 6am-6am is a pretty difficult schedule to keep, and I definitely agree with that. I usually like to eat lunch 3–4 hours after waking […]
Blogathon 2009: Catherine needs panniers!
So I was working on my next post here at Workspace, when who should arrive but noted fountain pen enthusiast and friend to WordPress themers everywhere, Tris Hussey![1] Which is good, because he very graciously tolerated my inadvertent inviting-myself-along-to-dinner last night, and answered my questions about categories and post visibility and things. And even more […]