I was walking around Canada Place the other night; it’s finally getting warm enough to be be pretty comfortable in the evenings. I got into a conversation with an unemployed fellow who was riding his bike around the area looking for money and odd jobs. He told me he worked in the trades and things [...]
Projects & Info
Rhodes Chroma: Resources for the vintage analogue synthesizer
Columbus Group Alumni: Employees of Vancouver web company, 1995-2001
Delicious Library: Books I own
Browsing Posts in Vancouver
Update, April 26 2010: I complained to Parking & Ground Transportation at the Vancouver Airport Authority and that seemed to get Delta Sunshine’s attention. The company has apologized and refunded my money. I want to warn people to be very wary of using the cab company Delta Sunshine Taxi. On February 28 of this year, I hired a [...]
In my work on genealogy to date I’ve focused mostly on my maternal grandmother’s family: her parents and eight Corry siblings. But one figure that looms large in my life is my mother’s father, Clarence John Frederickson (everyone called him “Fred”). Recently I’ve come across a couple of tidbits online that are worth sharing here. [...]
When I returned from Sun Microsystems in Silicon Valley to work in Vancouver, I landed at a small but growing web development company called Columbus Group. Only a couple of years later, in 2001, the company was acquired by Telus. The Columbus Group offices in the Arts and Crafts building, near the old A&B Sound, [...]
