Archive for January, 2008

Dotcom Bust and SuperBowl Commercials

January 31st, 2008 @ 11:55am by Rebecca Bollwitt
Posted in business, geeky, internet

Someone was just mentioned something about Pets.com, which instantly made me picture their sock dog mascot (which incidentally lead Pets.com to sue Conan O’Brien’s show over “Triumph, the Insult Comic Dog“). Thinking back to the days of the dotcom BOOM I remember where I was when it all went down… during the BUST. I was [...]

Thursday Morning Link Fest: Island Girl Edition

January 31st, 2008 @ 7:18am by Rebecca Bollwitt
Posted in link fest, vancouver

Tonight, I will be one with the Island. I’m not sure what that means but it has something to do with a girl, her mom, and her puppy that keeps threatening to lick my nose.

The Things That Matter

January 30th, 2008 @ 11:52am by Rebecca Bollwitt
Posted in family, personal, snowboarding, travel

I’ve been so busy recently that I haven’t had time to cover everything I’ve wanted to on the blog. I also haven’t had a lot of time to just chill out with John or my family even though they’re the most important things in the world to me. After waiting almost two years, John‘s immigration [...]

Culturally Modified Trees of Stanley Park

January 29th, 2008 @ 4:36pm by Rebecca Bollwitt
Posted in environment, history, stanley park, vancouver

The other day during our multi-hour walk through the park, John and I came across a a tree that had been tagged in a way I hadn’t seen before. You’ll usually find fluorescent flags hanging off branches as route or survey markers but since the storms we’ve mostly seen spray-painted dots, rags and other indicators [...]

Justifying Chill Out Spaces

January 29th, 2008 @ 10:35am by Guest Author
Posted in business, guest post, work

The following is a guest post, contributed by Keith So much in today’s world needs to be justified with numbers showing us that there is a quantifiable value for every decision. When a company spends money, more often than not they want to know how spending that money will make them more money. This is [...]

The Vancouver Blogger Challenge

January 29th, 2008 @ 7:47am by Rebecca Bollwitt
Posted in blogs, vancouver

I know Google is nice to me. It likes me. I can post on a certain topic and within an hour show up on page one of their results for the most obscure of things. Well yesterday while reading Morning Brew, Sean linked to Narvey who was doing an SEO experiment. For those unfamiliar, SEO [...]

Vancouver History: The Lions, The Two Sisters

January 28th, 2008 @ 10:33am by Rebecca Bollwitt
Posted in history, vancouver

They sit above Vancouver and are the namesake for many things Vancouver-related, from bridges to movie production studios but not everyone would refer to these two majestic peaks, reigning over our region as “The Lions”. Photo credit: penmachine on Flickr Legend has it that these are actually two sisters of a great nation that existed [...]

Facebook Awards: Developer and Design Garage Live Blog Tonight

January 28th, 2008 @ 9:26am by Rebecca Bollwitt
Posted in conference, facebook, live blog, vancouver

The second Facebook Developer & Design Garage (and Facebook Awards) will be kicking off tonight at 6:00pm sharp over at the Vancouver Film School on Homer. Doors open at 5:30pm and space is limited to 100, so be sure to come on time. Here’s a sampling of what we’ll see tonight (and for more background, [...]