Toronto Autshow 2007

As part of my day job I’m now actively involved with running a lot of events and I attend almost every major consumer show in the Toronto area. The annual Autoshow is back in town and all the local media is a buzz with Automotive news. I was at the show on Friday with my […]

Say No to Paul Ferreria

Just say No to Paul Ferreira and his Automated Dialer. For the past 2 days I’ve been getting recorded phone calls from Paul’s Campaigning telling me to say “No to the McGuinty’s 40,000 pay raise”. I’m pretty sure McGuinty doesn’t deserve a pay increase but with this sort of stupidity I don’t think Paul Ferreira […]

Classmates, give it up

I was sucked by Classmates spam about a new feature claiming to show you all your former Classmates on a map. You can see the BC map from my High School ( Sir Allen MacNab in Hamilton ) here: I think most people have experienced Classmates.com. If you haven’t check out, you can register to […]

Movie Review : Children of Men

I saw Children of Men a few weeks ago and I still think about it often. If you’re not familiar with the movie the premise is that the birth rate has dropped to zero and there hasn’t been a baby is years. Nobody is really sure why people can no longer conceive but the world […]

DemoCampToronto12 Review

DemoCamp was back on last night at No Regrets. Its been a busy week in Toronto with TransitCamp yesterday and GreenCamp tomorrow. Last night featured the following: Mozilla Contributions by David Humphrey David talked about his students involvement with the Mozilla open source project and some of the different components they have been able to […]

Final Thoughts on TransitCamp

TransitCamp yesterday was a blast, in a lot of ways a bigger event than the superbowl. The organizers did an awesome job of putting it together and everyone was very positive around improving the TTC. The TTC employees that attended were open to ideas, even ideas they were already considering or developing. Adam Giambrone was […]

NewMindSpace Subway Parties

NewMindSpace presented their Subway Parties at TransitCamp and their experience with organizing parties on public transport. Subway parties have been around for awhile but they’ve been using the web and technology to organize them. They try to provide limited notice of the party to avoid more than 250 people filling a subway car. They also […]

TransitCamp Starts

TorontoTransitCamp has just started at the GladStone Hotel. Theres about a 100 people involved and we’ve just broken out into sessions. The grid is pretty full already and I’m in a session on debugging the TTC. We’re talking alot of about using software tools to help the TTC track problems and feedback. Details available here: […]