Top Down View

For the last couple of weeks, I’ve been watching with interest Raul’s tweets about Preventable (‘The Community Against Preventable Injuries’ – a non-profit aimed at reducing the number of preventable injuries in BC).
I love what they’re doing… the idea that so many injuries are ‘accidents’ that just happen is rubbish and has annoyed me for [...]

(OK, a bit of sensationalism here, but…)
Last weekend’s Vancouver Barcamp was my second and I enjoyed it even more than the previous year’s event. I know I’m not alone – all the comments I’ve seen have been positive. But what has it achieved? I’m intrigued to find out about things that people learnt during Barcamp [...]

So it took rather longer than anticipated but I finally got to pay a visit to Free Geek Vancouver at the weekend for my introductory volunteer training session (and also to donate a trunk full of unwanted hardware of my own).
First impressions? Besides the rather unsavory neighbourhood (two blocks North of Hastings, just East of [...]