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The French hate us!

2 September, 2009 (10:22) | Business, France, Rants, Travel

Actually, well, more like iDTGV hates us and by us, I mean Canadians.

For those that don’t know, iDTGV (not affiliated with TGV) is a train service in France that I keep calling iDTVG for some reason. Seriously, though, iDTGV is an interesting train service because it caters to my demographic – you know, the one [...]

Cool fire spinning photos

23 July, 2007 (14:00) | Calgary, Travel

During my trip to Calgary for the Stampede, my friends and I chanced upon some fire spinning taking place on the corner of 17th Avenue SW and 8th Street in Mount Royal. Here’s some cool fire spinning photos:

Makes me want to head to burning man or something like that!

Rogers Wireless Blackberry in Japan

24 February, 2007 (01:45) | Business, Japan, Technical, Travel

After about two months of trying, success! We finally have liftoff, Houston, or more importantly, we’ve been able to get a Blackberry (attached to our corporate BES) going in Japan.

Background: SSID here in Canada operates numerous communication networks for mobile devices ranging from the ultra-secure Exchange/ActiveSync over the air with SSL and IP tunnelling, to [...]

How Do People Read Online?

20 June, 2006 (16:02) | Technical, Travel

From ONEList June 2006 (ONE/Northwest and CommEn Space)
Do you have an email newsletter? If so, then usability guru Jakob Nielsen’s latest studies of users’ eye movements across web pages is compelling visual evidence of how people read on the web, and how it is different from how they read print.
Nielsen draws three key conclusions [...]

Flight to Frankfurt

9 October, 2004 (06:15) | Germany, Mobile Technology, Travel

I’m here on the first leg of my journey. Flying Lufthansa en route to Nice via Frankfurt.

Subsequent trip to Calgary

20 September, 2004 (00:00) | Calgary, Travel

Two trips to Calgary in two weeks! I should be getting frequent flyer points somewhere, right? Too bad Westjet doesn’t have such a facility.

CICSR trip to Calgary

12 September, 2004 (00:00) | Calgary, Travel

Recap of my trip to Calgary with delegates from the Centre for Indo-Canadian Studies and Research out of the University College of the Fraser Valley.

Earth to customs!

30 August, 2002 (00:00) | Travel, Vancouver

It seems that everytime I go through the border, the scenario gets stranger and stranger…

Pre-September 11th (2001)… actually, I think it was September 8th.. 3AM, we`re crossing the border to go have some food (grease) at Denny`s. Now for background, Blaine Washington is the border town. The Denny`s is 500 yards away from the border, [...]


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