Thanks to everyone for entering my blogiversary contest. This evening I put everyone’s name in a hat and drew a winner…. …Ariane from the West End Girl blog – congrats!

We spent yesterday in Surrey and walked around Whalley for a bit (yes, voluntarily). I guess I never realized how many huge, tall old tress (namely Redwoods) there were in this particular area. They’re tearing most of them down in order to “Bring Yaletown to Surrey“, but a couple were left standing in order to [...]

Cool trains, nifty buses running us all over town, happy little sea buses carting us over to the mountainous North Shore, why wouldn’t we have a TransitCamp in this town? I think for the most part though, the main issues raised at TransitCamp were more buses, more scheduled times, more access and more info is [...]

Last night John and I ventured over to Flux Bistro in Gastown for the Zero Ground album release party. Man, there’s nothing like hearing and experiencing live music. Chad Nantais composed the entire album on his computer some time ago and after some suggestions from colleagues, he decided to bring it out into the real [...]

The other day Buzz asked if I would co-host the Battle of the Sexes portion of the 95 Crave morning show. This week he’s filling in for Nat & Drew and collected some local female friends to come up with the “women’s” questions for the game. The goal is to have the female host ask [...]

People have been trying to revolutionize the way get our Translink bus schedules for a while now because, let’s face it, they weren’t exactly cooking anything up themselves until recently. Yesterday they announced the new “Next Bus” service, where you can get instant schedule information for your bus stop, straight to your mobile phone by [...]

I had never been to the Republic, actually I stopped going to “clubs” on Granville years ago but this was one mighty fine lookin’ joint. Launch Party Vancouver took place on the upper level, with sponsor logos being projected onto the towering cement walls and on flat panel TVs throughout the bar. In one corner [...]

Last night I attended Launch Party Vancouver (with a Twiist). It started off as a little cluster of folks at the demo tables huddling around laptops but it soon turned into a pretty fantastic event. I will have a full write-up at some point today. In the meantime, here’s what’s happening in Vancouver and around [...]