KK didn’t start it, but he got me started on four things…

Four movies I can watch over and over:
1. Comfort and Joy
2. The Godfather
3. Jaws
4. Alien

Four places I have lived:
1. Portage La Prairie MB
2. Toronto ON
3. Calgary AB
4. Vancouver Paradise

Four television shows I love to watch (ON DVD):
1. The Office, UK
2. Six Feet Under
3. The Wire
4. Kids in the Hall

Four places I have been on vacation:
1. New Orleans
2. New Zealand
3. Newsome Creek
4. Newton Entrance

Four of my favorite dishes:
1. Kung Pao Chicken
2. Tako from Musashi on Denman
3. Crepes, made at home, just like Celina’s
4. Any Gelato from Brazza in North Vancouver

Four websites I visit daily:
1. Cypress Mountain
2. Gizmodo
3. You Send It
4. Vonage Canada

Four places I would rather be right now:
1. N48 23.728 W123 59.152
2. N48 51.259 W123 30.158
3. N49 24.251 W123 11.706
4. N49 30.297 W124 12.840

Four bloggers I am tagging:
1. Monique
2. KK
3. Roland
4. Ben

Just back from Cypress and the mounds of snow. Woaw.

Driving up from Vancouver in the rain into a blizzard up top. Too bad about the Audi Quatro in the ditch. My old Jeep managed just fine.

Tons of fresh snow, no lineups and the most fun I’ve had all year.

I managed a not-ready-for-the-Olympics face-plant-cartwheel-thingy off Hutch into waist deep snow, measured head first.

After digging myself out, and digging the snow out of my helmet and goggles, I couldn’t stop laughing.

My new Nitro Darkhorse is giving me all the thrills they promised over at Second Wave.

With all those updates I keep getting for IE I wonder why they never update the copyright dates?

Maybe they don’t care ?

I have a love-hate relationship with iTunes. I’m extremely inarticulate when it comes to WHY.
This post by Anil Dash pretty much gets it right. Here’s the preface to his itemized list of things to do better:

Lots of people in both the music/media and technology businesses are obsessed with beating Apple’s work on the iPod and iTunes. With the CES show being this week, that obsession will reach its annual peak, so I figured I’d take the time to post a list I’d made some time ago. Herewith, a list of the key dos and don’ts for beating Apple’s iPod and iTunes, in no particular order.

See the list here and check out the comments.

Monday Jan 9th I’ll be a guest on the Bill Good show on CKNW in Vancouver.

You can listen live on AM980 in the Vancouver area or online at CKNW.Com

I’m scheduled for the 11:30 slot, which is the last slot on Bill’s show, so I could get bumped for a big , medium , any real news story.

Why am I on the show ? Talking about the web of course – and I’ll try to work in a plug for Northern Voice while I’m there.

Who Knew ?

I’m the same age as Marc Canter. When we met at Vidfest in Vancouver last spring I could have sworn I was older. And for the record, I find I agree with 73.2 % of what he says, but only understand 19% of it.

I’m speaking at Northern Voice 2006. This is a real honour, because even though I’m the same age as Marc Canter, I’m hardly a web 2.0 guru. I do know media though and it will be real pleasure to present with respected journalist Mark Schneider. (I wonder if we’re the same age too).

A Bump Key. Go figure. Details at Lot 49 , who, like Marc Canter, links out to Om Malik’s blog.

Who says BC gets wimpy weather. Check this out:

Marine Forecast issued for Strait of Georgia.
Issued: 4 PM PST Wednesday 4 January 2006 for the period ending 4 PM Thursday with an outlook for the following 24 hours.
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Synopsis:
A complex 970 millibar low southwest of Vancouver Island will Move northward across the western Bowie tonight. The associated Front will rotate over northern Vancouver Island tonight and over The north coast Thursday morning. A weak low will move toward Central Vancouver Island Thursday night.

From northern Vancouver Island northward gale to storm force southeast winds will rise to storm to hurricane force overnight.

Winds will veer to southwesterly behind the low Thursday morning and will gradually ease to strong late Thursday.

Over southern waters strong to gale force southeast winds will Rise to gale to storm force this evening. Winds will ease to Moderate southerly Thursday morning then will back to moderate to strong easterly late Thursday afternoon ahead of the approaching Weak low.

From the Environment Canada marine forecast.

By the way, Hurricane force winds are 119-plus kilometres per hour.

Eric Karjaluoto is a bald man with a lot of ideas.

He’s over at smashLab and he’s got a new blog called ideasonideas happening.

Wander over and say hi.

Next to Vancouver and San Francisco, Sydney Australia is one of my favourite cities.

Here’s a little New Year present for anyone wishing they were there.

 

 

Get the screen saver here. Unzip the file and run the setup. It will self install.
Sorry, Windows only 🙁

Living here on Vancouver’s North Shore means living with black bears. With the mild weather, and an abundant supply of easy-pickings (read garbage) some of the local black bears are sticking around for the winter instead of heading up into the snow for a sleep.

Personally, if I had the option of sleeping for a few months or spending my days working, I know which way I’d go.

Despite the great work of the North Shore Bear Network and the Get Bear Smart folks, too many people continue to leave bear-tempting-goodies out, things like garbage and bird feed.

A couple of days ago I mentioned an email exchange with Ben Garfinkel from Industral Brand Creative.

Ben sent me a copy of the latest edition of Graphic Exchange in which he writes about blogging. You can get a pdf copy here, or visit the Graphic Exchange web site.

BTW: The irony of Ben emailing me to get a surface mail address so he could send me hard copy of an article about blogging didn’t escape him.

I’ve been talking about Tom Bihn bags for years.

I originally got one of Tom’s bags in 1999 because I was looking for a back-pack-type bag that could carry a multimedia laptop and some audio gear. C. William Smith from CBC and a bunch of us were working on the ‘radio in a backpack’ idea and we needed the perfect backpack for the job.

There were loads of book bags and back-country bags, but nothing that combined the protection needed and the form factor.

While doing yet another web search (this is 1999 remember) I discovered Tom’s Brain Bag .

It absolutely did the trick (and still does). Mine has at least 300,000 airmiles on it and looks as good as new.

Over the years I’ve bought other bags for specific bits of gear, and they just WORK. Only the best materials, fasteners and shoulder straps.

Today, my new Buzz bag arrived. It’s going to be my podcast bag, and I’m thrilled to discover it is exactly right for the job.

It’ll hold my digital IC recorder, a couple of mics, and assorted stuff that I inevitably need. The great thing is I can set up my gear, keep it in the bag, wear the bag, and still have my hands free. And I love the iPod holder on the strap.

Tom’s just down the way in Port Angeles and he’s also got a store in Seattle. I’ve only ever bought my stuff via the web.

According to Ipsos Insight’s lastest poll in the U.S.

Almost a quarter of respondents (22%) anticipate buying a portable MP3 player or lower-storage Apple iPod Shuffle or iPod Nano (to use primarily for music) in the next three months, and 14% are interested in buying a portable multimedia device, such as the 30GB or 60GB iPod, Sony PSP, Creative Zen, or iRiver devices.

Which may explain what’s been going on in my office when I’m out…