Category Archives: photography
nine inch nails live in victoria
Last Friday I saw Nine Inch Nails at the Memorial Arena. I have been a fan since a highschool friend named Cyril Woon decided to put on Pretty Hate Machine in 1994, 5 years after it had come out. It must have been 1994, because we were playing a card game that had just come […]
close to control
some really hard to use controls on my sony ericsson phone – click for a big version. Tonight, Nine Inch Nails is in town and I’m going to go check them out. From Trent Reznor’s latest blog entry: This [is] an amazing tour and production – certainly the best thing I’ve ever been involved with […]
connected to your surroundings
How connected are you to your surroundings? Richard sent me a link to an interview with some “mad men” (advertising folk) pontificating on the relevance of marketing, products, and advertising channels to the internet. Much of what I gleaned from reading this is that they are not as “in touch” as they think they are. […]
It’s a bear market
A bear fishing in a river near Ucluelet last week Last week I saw a television ad for the Chevy Volt, an electric car design that has been sat on for years and years. Release date is 2010. Too little, too late. The optical challenge for major American car companies is that they appear to […]
Cruise Ship Responsibility
Looking at cruise ships the other day, and talking about them more recently over the dinner table, it got me thinking – where does Corporate Social Responsibility fit in with cruise ship companies? What could they possibly do? It is a business based on luxury, burning fuel, and buffet-style indulgence. People don’t go on cruises […]
on the purpose of blogging
My first weblog was on the Victoria Freenet in 1995. It was a date-listed series of entries with an archive page and then some other resources on some other pages. It wasn’t a great website by any stretch of the imagination, but that concept of a steadily updated page with entries with some other resources […]
taking tech stock
Those who know me know that I like tech, but I don’t talk about it a whole lot on the ol’ blog. So, today, I am. One of the topics that has caught my mind lately is the challenge of mobile optics for the big software+tech companies. Specifically I am referring to Google, Apple, Sony […]
Are we on track?
How do you destroy a great idea? The first step is to share it with everyone. Don’t believe me? Be the first person to clap along in time at a concert. People who know how to join in will do so, and likely in time. Quickly this will spread throughout the audience until everyone wants […]
one fifty
After VEMF I didn’t have too much an appetite to talk about BC 150, but it did indeed happen, and so I went to check it out. Over 100,000 people also did, as it turns out, and they were there for the big show featuring Burton Cummings, Fiest, Colin James and Sarah McLachlan. Sarah McLachlan […]