Archive for April, 2009

100 Mile Challenge in Mission, BC

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Based on the best-selling book (and blog) by James MacKinnon and Alisa Smith, the Food Network’s new series, The 100 Mile Challenge, is testing the lifestyle habits of families in Mission, BC. I recently did a write up about the show for E!Online and soon after started counting my own food miles. Photo credit: Roland […]

Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival

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I love this time of year in the city. The grey and dreary winter days are behind us and although the rain still showers down every few days (or for a few days on end) it just makes everything so lush, green, and full of life. Walking up from Burrard SkyTrain the other night I […]

Meet and Tweet in Surrey with the Tech Valley Social Club

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This coming Thursday I’ll be out at Dublin Crossing in Surrey for the Tech Valley Social Club‘s Meet and Tweet event. It will be a chance for those East of the Fraser to get together, chat, discuss, mix, mingle, and hopefully learn a bit about social media during a quick talk I’ll be giving. Where […]

Review: The C-Word

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Our friend Shayam, a local podcaster and close family friend of my friend Tanya, is involved with The C-Word — a play now showing at the Playwrights Theatre Centre on Granville Island. Last night Tanya and I stopped by to check it out. If cheating is colour blind, so is commitment, increasingly a “C-word” to […]

Vancouver Blogger Meetup April 2009

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Wednesday night I met up with Raul for a bite to eat and then headed over to Shenanigans for this month’s Vancouver Blogger Meetup. My goal was to meet new bloggers, and I believe I was successful. There were tech bloggers, marketers, and even a match-maker. Jan Karlsberg was the unofficial scribe so he took […]