Last night I took Sarah to Hy’s Steakhouse for dinner. Hy’s is an old boy’s steakhouse. Founded in 1956 by Hy Aisenstat in Calgary, Hy’s Encore (as it was call back then) open it first Vancouver steakhouse in 1960 at the Sands, located on Davie Street. In 1962, Hy’s moved to its current location at 637 Hornby Street, and has […]
Read MoreThis is part 2 of my In The Beginning post. The start of 2001 was the beginning of the end for the Internet money train. The US was entering a recession and investors were starting to question the sky-high valuation placed on a dot com business. During the boom time, it was not uncommon for a startup to raise $20 […]
Read MoreWe got hit with heavy rain and wind last night that knocked out my TV and internet connection for the entire evening. At least my house still had power. They had a total blackout just up the block. When I was driving to my Chinese class last night, I also discovered that some of the street lights and signals have […]
Read MoreReviewMe, the new pay per post system that launched just last week by offering to give bloggers $25,000 for reviewing their service has increased their budget to $100,000. Well the launch went better than we ever could have expected, and in fact the initial $25,000 in ReviewMe review orders was claimed within 48 hours! We liked the feedback and buzz […]
Read MoreAfter numerous emails to Technorati, they have finally fixed the problem that was preventing me from claiming my blog. Technorati is a blog search and ranking site. They track 60 million blogs. Advertising networks like ReviewMe uses a blog’s Technorati ranking to help them determine pricing – the higher the rank, the higher the price. Unfortunately, Technorati has been ranking […]
Read MoreThe year was 1999 and I have just started a site call Moto’s Project 504, a personal home page about the first computer I built all by myself. The system was a Pentium II 300 overclocked all the way to 504MHz, an unheard of feat at the time. The site was created with MS Front Page because I didn’t know […]
Read MoreATP Electronics sent me the MicroSD combo product in the above picture. It is a neat little product designed to solve your mobile storage needs. The products bundle MicroSD memory card with a USB device. When inserted into the USB device, the MicroSD card is transformed into a USB flash drive, which can then be used to transfer files to […]
Read MoreThere was a power failure at the NetNation data center that took down this blog and all my other sites for about 45 minutes. No explanation was given for the outage. Their call support center is located in Austin Texas and the only thing they could tell me was “The Vancouver data center experienced a power outage in roll 17 […]
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