Vancouver VC Forum #5
Sunday, May 25th, 2008 Posted in Business, Marketing, Vancouver, Work | 2 Comments »I presented for a group of investors at the VC Forum last Thursday. It was my first time pitching Smartful Studios to investors. There was an additional challenge as I did not know ahead of time who in ...
Vancouver Half Marathon
Wednesday, May 14th, 2008 Posted in Exercise, Life, Vancouver | 2 Comments »I ran the Vancouver Half Marathon earlier this month. The race started at 7 AM on a Sunday morning. I woke up at 5:30 AM. This is early for me. Very early. I don’t wake up this early never ...
DemoCampVancouver06 - iPhone Development for Independent Developers
Tuesday, April 15th, 2008 Posted in Business, Games, Programming, Vancouver, Work | No Comments »DemoCampVancouver06 started with a moderated panel. Boris Mann moderated the panel with Dustin Sacks of SillySoft Games, Jamie Cheng of Klei Entertainment, and myself taking part. Definition of Terms The panel started with an introduction to terms such as independent game ...
March Recap
Tuesday, April 1st, 2008 Posted in Exercise, Games, Life, Programming, Recap, Site, Vancouver, Work | No Comments »March was a good month in terms of blogging. I was able to crank out 7 blog posts in March including a post with video. Look for more media rich content in the future. I'll continue to ...
DemoCampVancouver06: Gaming Edition
Wednesday, March 19th, 2008 Posted in Games, Programming, Vancouver | 2 Comments »DemoCamp is an adhoc conference where anyone can pitch an idea for a presentation. The goal is to pitch your idea or demo and get solid, constructive feedback. DemoCamp attracts a diversity of people and as a result ...
Ways To Save jPod
Sunday, March 9th, 2008 Posted in TV, Vancouver | 5 Comments »The CBC has decided to cancel jPod. This is unfortunate because it is the first high-quality show that the CBC has put out in years. The first three episodes of the first season were not so great. ...
The Gum Thief by Douglas Coupland
Monday, January 7th, 2008 Posted in Books, TV, Vancouver | No Comments »The first episode of jPod will be airing on the CBC tomorrow. So, during my Christmas holidays I decided to go back and read Coupland's latest novel, The Gum Thief. I usually jump in bed 15 minutes to an hour before ...
Brain Dump of Pertinence
Saturday, October 27th, 2007 Posted in Games, Life, Marketing, Vancouver, Web | 6 Comments »In Silicon Valley, there are a lot of stories of meetings happening in hot tubs and deals being done at Bucks. I usually get together with a bunch of friends for a hot tub over at Scott's place each ...
Demo Camp Vancouver 03
Friday, October 5th, 2007 Posted in Games, Programming, Vancouver | 5 Comments »So, there is thing called the Internet. And there is thing called the Web and there like up to version 2.0 and stuff. And people get together and talk about it. There is a huge difference between the web ...
FogBugz World Tour: Vancouver
Thursday, September 6th, 2007 Posted in Programming, Vancouver | 1 Comment »Scott and myself went to the FogBugz 6.0 World Tour this morning. The purpose of the tour was to introduce FogBugz 6.0 to the world and to discuss the software development process with FogBugz FogBugz was a bug tracking tool ...
