Why 2014 Is The Year You Change | TechCrunch

Why 2014 Is The Year You Change | TechCrunch

Another classic life lesson from James Altucher.  Read at your own risk......

Media Reacts: A Christmas Present Or Two Or Ten Edition - YouTube

Media Reacts: A Christmas Present Or Two Or Ten Edition - YouTube

This is unbelievable....and I thought our local news was not original......

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from the Schiedel-Foucher Family!

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from

the Schiedel-Foucher Family!

Hoping you are surrounded by love and warmth this holiday season. Merry Christmas.

With love,

Trish, Michael, India and Amara

Mugshots from the 1920s are Significantly Cooler Than Mugshots from Today - The Phoblographer

Mugshots from the 1920s are Significantly Cooler Than Mugshots from Today - The Phoblographer

You need to see these shots...fascinating!

Miley Cyrus - Wrecking Ball (Chatroulette Version) - YouTube

Miley Cyrus - Wrecking Ball (Chatroulette Version) - YouTube

Potentially one of the funniest things you will see this Christmas.

At Cavalia in Vancouver

Amazing experience.....Cirque with horses!

Keacher.com � How I introduced a 27-year-old computer to the web

Keacher.com � How I introduced a 27-year-old computer to the web

For people who cut their teeth on the web in 1991 using gopher and then progressing to Mosiac in 1993/4, this is a great story....

Meet the concept iPhone Air and iPhone 6C | Apple - CNET News

Meet the concept iPhone Air and iPhone 6C | Apple - CNET News

This is quite the sweet mock...Apple would be served well if the 6 looked like this.

WestJet Christmas Surprise Will Make You Believe in Santa [VIDEO]

WestJet Christmas Surprise Will Make You Believe in Santa [VIDEO]

Wow....this is a real tear jerker!!

The siege of Sinatra - smh.com.au

The siege of Sinatra - smh.com.au: The siege of Sinatra - what a story!

April 22 2002
The Sun-Herald
On the run . . . Sinatra arrives at the Melbourne Festival Hall.
Frank Sinatra was in the wrong country at the wrong time. He arrived in Australia for concerts in July 1974, just three years after Germaine Greer had published The Female Eunuch and only 18 months after Melbourne singer Helen Reddy had a worldwide hit with I Am Woman, virtually the theme song for the then rapidly expanding women's liberation movement.
It was hardly the right moment for Sinatra to get up on stage at Melbourne's Festival Hall and describe Australia's female journalists as "buck-and-a-half hookers".

Microsoft’s Julie Larson-Green Hints At Further Windows Harmonization Across Device Classes | TechCrunch

Microsoft’s Julie Larson-Green Hints At Further Windows Harmonization Across Device Classes | TechCrunch:

But if Microsoft could blend the two (perhaps in a way that is exceptionally dichotomized on different screen sizes, which is what we currently see, etc), we could have a single ARM Windows build, and an x86 edition. The oddity would be user interface sameness between the ARM build and x86 build some of the time (tablets!) and not others (smartphones!).

Bob Dylan "Like A Rolling Stone" - Official Interactive Video!

Bob Dylan "Like A Rolling Stone" - Official Interactive Video!

Wow....be sure to check out all the channels as the song plays....

Dribbble - iWatch Mock-Up by Thomas Bogner

Dribbble - iWatch Mock-Up by Thomas Bogner: by Thomas Bogner Oct 21, 2013

 Want it now!!!

Decorophobia: Fear of failing at arts and crafts - Diggit Victoria

Decorophobia: Fear of failing at arts and crafts - Diggit Victoria

Check out the latest handiwork of our very creative (and funny) blogger at Diggit!!!

The Weekly Interview: Siegfried & Roy, 10 years later - Las Vegas Weekly

The Weekly Interview: Siegfried & Roy, 10 years later - Las Vegas Weekly:

Hip-high rails have been constructed along those winding sidewalks, so Roy Horn has something firm and steady on which to lean as he makes his way around, visiting Little Bavaria’s animal kingdom, which includes horses, mini-donkeys, black swans, exotic chickens, African cranes, royal turkeys, canines and assorted cats, big and small. Siegfried Fischbacher ordered those rails built, once more providing support to his friend, life companion, performing partner and co-founder of a Strip show that entertained more than 25 million fans for more than 35 years. Siegfried also enforced the construction of a new house outfitted to offset Roy’s physical limitations, suffered a decade ago when he was dragged offstage by a white tiger named Montecore during a performance at the Mirage.

The Tyee – The Finnish Education of Tim Walker

The Tyee – The Finnish Education of Tim Walker

We have so much to learn.  If only our government leaders would be brave enough to transform our education system to the Finnish model.

cloudpaint.com

cloudpaint.com

MacPaint shipped with the Macintosh in 1984 and is the mother of all modern graphics programs. If you miss those days, or never got a chance to experience MacPaint for yourself, developer Martin Braun has adapted it for the Web. Cloudpaint replicates both the features and interface of the original, which was developed by Bill Atkinson and Susan Kare, then later open-sourced in 2010.

TidBITS: FunBITS: Why Apple May Win the Gaming Market

TidBITS: FunBITS: Why Apple May Win the Gaming Market

I would love to buy a couple of controllers for the kids so they could play games on the apple tv......that would be a killer product in and of itself.

Meet The New Serfs, Same As The Old Serfs | TechCrunch

Until the US disabuses themselves to the falsehood of social and economic mobility in their country (ie. the American dream) this situation will only get worse.  Unless they implement a massive wealth transfer in the form of universal health care (Obama Care is barely that), universal and well funded education at both the primary, secondary and post secondary levels they will continue to fall behind in world metrics of competitiveness and overall social mobility.

Meet The New Serfs, Same As The Old Serfs | TechCrunch

Surprisingly simple scheme for self-assembling robots - MIT News Office

Known as M-Blocks, the robots are cubes with no external moving parts. Nonetheless, they’re able to climb over and around one another, leap through the air, roll across the ground, and even move while suspended upside down from metallic surfaces.�

Surprisingly simple scheme for self-assembling robots - MIT News Office: 

Visual effects studio stuns with three minute clip of sci-fi mech film | The Verge

This is very engaging.  I hope the studio gets the money to develop this into a full length feature:

Visual effects studio stuns with three minute clip of sci-fi mech film | The Verge

And Then Steve Said, ‘Let There Be an iPhone’ - NYTimes.com

Fantastic piece!  I can't wait to read the entire book....

And Then Steve Said, ‘Let There Be an iPhone’ - NYTimes.com

How the White House sees the shutdown (and debt ceiling!) fight

How the White House sees the shutdown (and debt ceiling!) fight

I, Cringely The Secret of iOS 7 - I, Cringely

I, Cringely The Secret of iOS 7 - I, Cringely: Jump forward in time to a year from today. Here’s what I expect we’ll see. Go to your desk at work and, using Bluetooth and AirPlay, the iPhone 5S or 6 in your pocket will automatically link to your keyboard, mouse, and display. Processing and storage will be in your pocket and, to some extent, in the cloud. Your desktop will require only a generic display, keyboard, mouse, and some sort of AirPlay device, possibly an Apple TV that looks a lot like a Google ChromeCast.

Serpentine Sackler Gallery by Zaha Hadid

This is uniquely compelling.....

Serpentine Sackler Gallery by Zaha Hadid

Justin Timberlake and Jimmy Fallon mock #hashtagmania | Technically Incorrect - CNET News

Justin Timberlake and Jimmy Fallon mock #hashtagmania | Technically Incorrect - CNET News

Pussy Riot's Nadezhda Tolokonnikova: Why I have gone on hunger strike | Music | theguardian.com

Pussy Riot's Nadezhda Tolokonnikova: Why I have gone on hunger strike | Music | theguardian.com

What Scale Means After Patch and Groupon | Street Fight

What Scale Means After Patch and Groupon | Street Fight: But it’s a quality game now, say Fain. Quality breeds engagement, and engagement, not reach, creates value in a local marketplace in which software can take a customer from impression to checkout. Scale, as it were, has a third dimension.

Playground - Victoria PGVIC#9 with The Chantrelles - YouTube

Playground - Victoria PGVIC#9 with The Chantrelles - YouTube

This was an amazing event.  Check out the video below if you want to see what happened:

Why Apple's 'indoor GPS' plan is brilliant - Computerworld

Why Apple's 'indoor GPS' plan is brilliant - Computerworld

Good analysis by Mike Elgan.

He’s Electric — Will A Revolutionary Black Box Turn Dale Vince Into Europe’s Elon Musk? | TechCrunch

He’s Electric — Will A Revolutionary Black Box Turn Dale Vince Into Europe’s Elon Musk? | TechCrunch

The iPhone 5S-Class | TechCrunch

Excellent analysis...this is exactly what Apple is doing...

The iPhone 5S-Class | TechCrunch

With iBeacon, Apple is going to dump on NFC and embrace the internet of things — Tech News and Analysis

With iBeacon, Apple is going to dump on NFC and embrace the internet of things — Tech News and Analysis

Game over | asymco

Game over | asymco

The contrast between mobile phone platforms and game consoles is striking, with an order of magnitude difference in consumption. The best performing console to date is the Wii with about 100 million units sold so far.

The Tyee – Why Climate Change Is Splitting Republicans

The Tyee – Why Climate Change Is Splitting Republicans

Startup Sunday at Cadboro Bay United Church

Great to start a new year with a such a caring community!

Exclusive: Amazon Wants To Offer Its Smartphone for Free. Who Will Follow? – jessica lessin

Exclusive: Amazon Wants To Offer Its Smartphone for Free. Who Will Follow? – jessica lessin

This Russian Software Is Taking Over the Internet | Wired Enterprise | Wired.com

This Russian Software Is Taking Over the Internet | Wired Enterprise | Wired.com: It now runs about 15 percent of all websites, including everyone from startups such as CloudFlare and Parse (bought by Facebook earlier this year) to web giants such as Automattic and Netflix. “We use it for everything,” says Automattic’s Abrahamson. “We run as much of our software stack as possible on top of Nginx.”

What Does the Fox Say: The anatomy of Ylvis’s instant viral hit — paidContent

What Does the Fox Say: The anatomy of Ylvis’s instant viral hit:

What Does the Fox Say? features adults in outlandish animal costumes reciting an Old McDonald’s-ish list of animal noises, before addressing the titular question in the chorus. There is thumping bass and a silly, easily imitatable dance: In short, it is the video internet hipsters and five-year-olds can finally agree on.

Redesigning 'Star Trek': the original series brought to life in 80 pulp posters | The Verge

Redesigning 'Star Trek': the original series brought to life in 80 pulp posters | The Verge:

The designs feature a vintage style, with some reminiscent of classic movie posters and others harking back to the covers of pulp sci-fi novels. According to Ortiz, what makes them work — and fun to work on — is the sheer diversity of the episodes he illustrated.

Microsoft Enters Into $7.2B Deal To Buy Nokia’s Devices And Services Business And License Its Patents | TechCrunch

Microsoft Enters Into $7.2B Deal To Buy Nokia’s Devices And Services Business And License Its Patents | TechCrunch: In a surprise move, Microsoft announced Monday evening that it has inked a deal with Nokia to acquire “substantially all of Nokia’s Devices & Services business, license Nokia’s patents, and license and use Nokia’s mapping services.”

Turning Apple TV Into Ouroboros | TechCrunch

Turning Apple TV Into Ouroboros | TechCrunch: Apple has been ‘pulling the string’ on the Apple TV for seven years now. Think about that one for a minute: it’s had a set-top box since before the iPhone.

Why Local is the Future of Commerce | Street Fight

Why Local is the Future of Commerce | Street Fight:  Local search revenues are skyrocketing, expected to increase annually 10% over the next five years. User-generated reviews and ratings have dramatically improved our ability to determine the quality of a businesses, altering, more than replicating, the consumer’s experience in the local marketplace.

What Will It Take to Bring All Businesses Online? | Street Fight

What Will It Take to Bring All Businesses Online? | Street Fight: Word of mouth reputation, geographic location, foot traffic, print advertising, and other traditional forms of getting the word out may do quite well for many businesses in small towns and big cities alike. As Louis Gagnon of Yodle noted, online marketing is complex and business owners are preoccupied with the day-to-day needs of serving customers, leaving little time to focus on activities with a less clear-cut reward for their energies. The Yodle study also notes that SMB proprietors see family and time off as important considerations. They are not necessarily concerned with being the biggest player in the market. Ranking sixth in a Google search result may not be a fate worse than death in their minds so much as we suppose it to be. The exceptions to this rule are the folks who come to us, perhaps skewing our sense of the SMB population as a whole.

Sony's lens camera smartphone accessories could start from $250 | The Verge

Sony's lens camera smartphone accessories could start from $250 | The Verge:

In case you needed further proof that Sony will announce its "lens cameras" soon, Sony Alpha Rumors (SAR) has leaked the rumored accessories yet again. The camera site has previously revealed the lens cameras will attach to iOS and Android devices and act as a wireless lens using Wi-Fi. This time, the big surprise is color: SAR has obtained images from an anonymous source that show the rumored QX10 lens camera in a champagne gold and silver finish — perfect for that rumored gold iPhone 5S.

Happy 50th birthday, Compact Cassette: How it struck a chord for millions • The Register

Happy 50th birthday, Compact Cassette: How it struck a chord for millions • The Register: Feature On 30 August, 1963, a new bit of sound recording tech that was to change the lifestyle of millions was revealed at the Berlin Radio Show.

The adoption of the standard that followed led to a huge swath of related technological applications that had not been envisaged by its maker; for Philips, the unveiling of its new Compact Cassette tape and accompanying recorder was about enticing people to buy a fuss-free portable recording system.

Sonically, the Compact Cassette recorder was no hi-fi and, from the start, was never meant to be. Instead, the company had succeeded in putting together a format for recording, storing and playing back audio that immediately made sense - and delivered so many convenient improvements over existing systems that its success was assured.

Powerful: Olbermann talks about his dad, Satchel Paige and King’s speech | The Sherman Report

Powerful: Olbermann talks about his dad, Satchel Paige and King’s speech | The Sherman Report:

by Ed Sherman
AUGUST 29, 2013
The segment lasted 3:32 and at the end I felt a chill running down my spine.

Thus is the talent of Keith Olbermann.

His recollection of his father using Satchel Paige to illustrate the roots of segregation was powerful as anything I heard during the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King’s famous speech.

Like him or not, you owe it to yourself to watch.

▶ Kevin Spacey urges TV channels to give control to viewers - YouTube

▶ Kevin Spacey urges TV channels to give control to viewers - YouTube:

Double Oscar-winner Kevin Spacey has challenged TV channels to give "control" to their audiences or risk losing them at his address at the James MacTaggart Memorial Lecture at the Edinburgh Television Festival.

The Ultimate Cheat Sheet For Starting And Running Your Business | TechCrunch

The Ultimate Cheat Sheet For Starting And Running Your Business | TechCrunch: 4) Should you go for venture capital money?
First build a product, then get a customer, then get friends-and-family money (or money from revenues which is cheapest of all) and then think about raising money. But only then. Don’t be an amateur.

Steve Ballmer’s Classy Exit | TechCrunch

I agree with Alex's claim that in the last few years Microsoft has made some large bets under Ballmer....ballsy moves that the old Microsoft would not have undertaken.  However where I diverge from his opinion is that these gutsy decisions were not made from for-sight - they were clear reactive measures borne from Microsoft losing developer mindshare at an incredible rate.

Steve Ballmer’s Classy Exit | TechCrunch: Microsoft is a company struggling to be reborn, but its new trajectory is something Ballmer steered. Were mistakes made under his tenure? Certainly. But that doesn’t mean Ballmer isn’t leaving on a high note. In fact, his exit is classy: He stuck around longer than few others would have, and the concluding years of his tenure as CEO have been his best.

How to Convince Investors

How to Convince Investors:

Great article. Good advice in what is a marathon race.

A formidable person is one who seems like they'll get what they want, regardless of whatever obstacles are in the way. Formidable is close to confident, except that someone could be confident and mistaken. Formidable is roughly justifiably confident.

Open Letter to Jeff Bezos From ex-Washington Post Staffer Kara Swisher - Kara Swisher - Media - AllThingsD

Open Letter to Jeff Bezos From ex-Washington Post Staffer Kara Swisher - Kara Swisher - Media - AllThingsD: If I were you, I would probably even begin to make plans now to dump the print newspaper altogether. Despite the hue and cry over it, we all know it’s coming, so you might as well start early on with what is plainly inevitable. That does not mean there will not be print products, but you know full well that you used to sell more analog books, and now the game is largely a digital one.

Remembering the Apple Newton's Prophetic Failure and Lasting Impact | Wired Design | Wired.com

Remembering the Apple Newton's Prophetic Failure and Lasting Impact | Wired Design | Wired.com: In product lore, high profile gadgets that get killed are often more interesting than the ones that succeed. The Kin, the HP TouchPad, and the Edsel are all case studies in failure–albeit for different reasons. Yet in the history of those killings, nothing compared to the Apple Newton MessagePad. The Newton wasn’t just killed, it was violently murdered, dragged into a closet by its hair and kicked to death in its youth by one of technology’s great men. And yet it was a remarkable device, one whose influence is still with us today. The Ur tablet. The first computer designed to free us utterly from the desktop.

Diggit Harnesses the Power of Local to Help Canadian Businesses - Techvibes.com

Check out an article about us in TechVibes!

Diggit Harnesses the Power of Local to Help Canadian Businesses - Techvibes.com

Rinku Sen: The Racist Mind - COLORLINES

Great article...sheds a little light on the decision in the Trayvon Martin case.

Rinku Sen: The Racist Mind - COLORLINES

All Hail 'Prince George'!

As many of know I was conceived and born in the lovely northern community of Prince George.  Our city was originally called 'Fort George' but in 1915 the citizens voted to by plebiscite to name the new city in honour of the fourth son of King George V, Prince George, Duke of Kent.  We now have a new 'Prince George' in the Royal Family who, oddly, resembles our city's famous mascot Mr. PG.

Mr. PG - Prince George's Mascot

The new prince, Prince George

Arriving in Vancouver

Starting our trip to the Okanogan.

Be.e electric scooter made from plants by Waarmakers and Van.Eko

Be.e electric scooter made from plants by Waarmakers from Dezeen on Vimeo.

Be.e electric scooter made from plants by Waarmakers and Van.Eko

Pixar inspires graphic comment on NSA surveillance | Technically Incorrect - CNET News

Pixar inspires graphic comment on NSA surveillance | Technically Incorrect - CNET News

Diggit Mobile Landing Page - Diggit Victoria

We have launched our first iOS app!!  Check it out!



Diggit Mobile Landing Page - Diggit Victoria

Swedishness - YouTube

Swedishness - YouTube:

AeroVelo Officially Awarded AHS Sikorsky Prize! | AeroVelo

Congrats to the University of Toronto and Canada in general!!



AeroVelo Officially Awarded AHS Sikorsky Prize! | AeroVelo

Diggit - Our First Night Market

See what our Sellers had to say.....

We are getting ready to record

#optik #telus #pgviv9

Trish and I at a Playon event

#pgvic9

At playground event

#pgvic9

'Pacific Rim' review: epic, ambitious, and accessible | The Verge

I am looking forward to seeing this for some summer escapism.



'Pacific Rim' review: epic, ambitious, and accessible | The Verge

The Death Star was an Inside Job

Fantastic take on the blowing up of the Death Star!

The Death Star was an Inside Job

New Zynga CEO Mattrick’s Package Is Worth About $50M In Stock, Options & Salary | TechCrunch

I am curious.....does anyone know if Don is leaving Victoria?

New Zynga CEO Mattrick’s Package Is Worth About $50M In Stock, Options & Salary | TechCrunch

The Declaration Of Independence, 2013 | TechCrunch

The Declaration Of Independence, 2013 | TechCrunch

'World War Z' review: Brad Pitt’s zombie thriller is a scary summer surprise | The Verge

Looking forward to seeing this...

'World War Z' review: Brad Pitt’s zombie thriller is a scary summer surprise | The Verge

Great Article on Remembering James Gandolfini and Tony Soprano

Loved the Soprano's and will miss Mr. Gandolfini's genuis....

Tony Soprano was a monster, but an oddly relatable one. He struggled with his family, whether enduring the caustic disapproval of his mother or the misbehavior of his kids, and went to therapy to deal with panic attacks and a wide-ranging feeling of depression. But he also had no compunction about strangling a man to death while taking daughter Meadow on a college tour. He was vulnerable. He was charming. He was cruel and vindictive and angry and practically drowning in self-pity. 

Read more at http://www.hitfix.com/whats-alan-watching/remembering-james-gandolfini-and-tony-soprano#1blFIvoT3f8Ui3p0.99 

2013 Audi RS 4 Avant :: 'Ultimate Paintball Duel' [HD]

If you like cars and you like paint guns, you will like this video:

Mount Washington

It's gorgeous