Well, the conference is over and as promised I will post up my experience on the event. In general, I went there mainly to try something new and to possibly meet new people. I attended the conference with a friend which made it easier to find things and it was more interesting this way as
So today and tomorrow I decided to attend an event called Northern Voice which is kind of like a blogging conference in Canada I guess you can say. It’s always great to get to meet new people. The event is being held at the University of British Columbia this year and today it was mostly
With the 2008 Olympic Games being held in Beijing, the local news here showed an interesting report on how so many people and companies in China use what they call “Chinglish†which is basically words that have been translated from Chinese to English that are incredibly broken grammatically or that it hasn’t been translated properly.
I was in Metrotown today which is a large mall here in BC to quickly buy some things and of course some stores had decorations in celebration of Chinese new years. Most of the things that were displayed are things that you would typically see this time of year, but I thought this would be
This computer that I am using seems to be having its issues for the past two weeks as it seems to be unstable and unable to operate under a dual channel ram mode anymore. After doing some quick tests, it looks like replacing it with a new motherboard will be the answer. It’s one of
This is kind of a common question I was just asked where since the Spring Festival, better known as Chinese New Years, is coming up on what is suppose to be the significance in giving out money within those red envelopes. I’m not a historian or anything so I can’t give you this detailed background