It will be interesting to see how this has changed since 2005 Well, I’m not quite old, yet, I hope, but I am going East, for about a week. Here’s the the plan: My family is having a reunion in Orlando, Florida next weekend, celebrating my Aunt’s Birthday (suffice to say It’s a big one). […]
I got a news-flash email from the CBC today (I’m no one special; I’ve signed up for alerts like this): The federal government is $4.2 billion richer with the conclusion of the cellphone spectrum auction on Monday, while customers stand to win as five new companies are now well positioned to launch services over the […]
I was surprised, but not all that much by this article, published today in the Vancouver Province: Brain Drain a Thing of the Past as Americans Flood In (To quote Norma Greenaway of the CanWest News Service:) OTTAWA — The number of Americans admitted to Canada last year hit a 30-year high, fuelling a pattern […]
While Pam and I have always celebrated our wedding anniversary in August (it will be 17 years, this year!), we also now celebrate another anniversary today, which is the date we settled here in Vancouver. Back in 2005 we arrived here with a bunch of suitcases, an inflatable mattress and blanket from Target in Bellevue […]
When I first thought of moving to Vancouver, one of the pivotal decisions I made was to come and make a preliminary visit and go to a sort of tech trade show, called Techvibes Massive. It was put on by the web site and associated online community of the first word in that name. As […]
