The 2-hour, 2-hundred-dollar rule

I’m not a big believe in golden rules, generally. But we have 1 golden rule at work that supersedes all other rules. And that’s our 2-hour, 2-hundred-dollar rule. Which goes like this: No one shall spend more than 2 hours or $200 on any one thing without first discussing it with the team. I can’t [...]

A Milestone, of sorts

Earlier this week, the NPA launched their new website for the fall 2011 civic election campaign. With this, I’ve reached a personal milestone: Over the past decade, I’ve built election campaign websites for each of the Vancouver civic parties – COPE in 2002, then Vision‘s in 2005 and now the NPA this year. I like [...]

Thoughts on my Commuting Habits

After reading Chad Skelton’s story in the Vancouver Sun today about transit-use by neighborhood in Vancouver, I have been thinking about my own commuting habits. (aside: I can’t wait to see the 2011 numbers on this and see how they compare). Since I moved from the Cambie Village to where I currently live, near Memorial [...]

User Control over the Granularity of Location Services

I use a lot of location services on my phone: when I tweet, more often than not, I include my location. I love geo-tagging my photos, so I generally include my location when using instagram, Hipstamatic, etc. & I regularly check in on Gowalla & Foursquare. So I’m not averse to sharing my location in [...]