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SuperHappyDevHouse Live Blog

Comments 8 by Rebecca Bollwitt

After work today I met up with John and headed over to 1 Alexander to join in the SuperHappyDevHouse hijinx. Most were there to brainstorm and come up with fun, neat little ways to geek, hack and play with the weebernet but some are here simply to eat, drink, and be geeky – ourselves included. […]

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Gassy Jack's Neck of the Woods

Comments 7 by Rebecca Bollwitt

Before moving downtown a few years ago I had only ever been to Gastown [wiki] a couple of times. Aside from being a usual destination for out-of-towners the majority of my experience included hitting dank ol’ pubs for nights of sticky shoes and Irish music. Times have changed and there’s more life in that corner […]

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End of a Season

Comments 4 by Rebecca Bollwitt

Just watched the Ducks defeat the Canucks‘ playoff dreams in the second overtime of game 5. Alanah live blogged the entire ordeal (and also has an interview with Jim Hughson up on her site) while Dave did the live stream for Canucks Outsider. For all the post game commentary, or lack thereof, I’m sure J.J. […]

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Welcome to Canada

Comments 8 by Rebecca Bollwitt

Quick note here before starting the day – something monumental happened yesterday and I would hate to overlook it. John got his Permanent Residency for Canada, meaning he’s now a full-fledged immigrant of this fine nation. You can read all of John’s posts about the immigration process on his blog. We’re both pretty excited and […]

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Vancouver View Magazine

Comments 7 by Rebecca Bollwitt

A while ago Buzz Bishop, local radio host [Z95], blogger [MacBlog], podcaster, techie writer [Cyberbuzz] and friend of Miss604.com asked to get my story about making the switch from PC to Mac. I’ve done several posts to express how much of a newbie I am with my Macbook [tag: mac vs pc] and Buzz decided […]

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Vancouver View Magazine Article

Comments 1 by Rebecca Bollwitt

Vancouver View Magazine Article by Buzz Bishop – May 2007 Rebecca’s dad brought home her family’s first PC in 1989. “We played Spacewars and basked in the orange glow of the monitor,” she remembers. Over the next 18 years as she moved from MS-DOS to Windows3.1 to Windows 95 to Windows 98 to Windows XP […]

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We Want The Cup, Surrey Delta Style

Comments 3 by Rebecca Bollwitt

Thanks to Dave for tipping us off about this, the Go Canucks site has the BEST video of Game 7 jubilation around. Robson Street is for Pussies – Check out what the cops had to deal with at Scott Road & 72nd in Delta/Surrey First I have to say thank you to Rob for posting […]

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The Crazy Canucks Episode #33 and #34

by Rebecca Bollwitt

In Episode #33 we’re all on the line to discuss Game 7 and our thoughts going into game 1 of the Anaheim series (Dave, John, JJ, Alanah and me). Yesterday, we posted a special Episode #34 where Alanah interviewed Earl Sleek, Ducks blogger from the site: Battle of California. She also gets JJ’s thoughts after […]

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