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Comment on Is Vancouver an unfriendly city? by Ann

Ann — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 07:42:18 +0000

This is soooo sad..I was thinking of moving there..are they really unfriendly or just scared?

Comment on Why Google is still #1 by Alex

Alex — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 07:17:02 +0000

Don’t forget the search aggregators such as Dogpile which give you the best of both worlds – you get results from Google and Bing (and Ask and Yahoo!), and you don’t have to worry about whether you’re missing the good stuff.

Comment on Is Vancouver an unfriendly city? by Visitors

Visitors — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 03:42:40 +0000

Been in Vancouver for three days now, immediately noticed the non-friendliness and feel sad that in a city so beautiful, surrounded by so much beautiful nature, I won’t miss Vancouver at all because there is NO HUMAN CONNECTION to be found. I actually have to get out of the habit of saying “Good morning” because I end up feeling like a schmuck each and every time I get ignored. Too big? Too many drugs? Too much money? Too little money? Whatever the explanation is something important is lacking here. I’ve been to 35 countries so I know what’s out there… thanks for your blog.

Comment on Zune Wireless Sync in Windows Server 2003 by Mike Powell

Mike Powell — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 02:21:43 +0000

Sorry, said 3.0 but meant 3.1.

Comment on Zune Wireless Sync in Windows Server 2003 by Mike Powell

Mike Powell — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 02:19:53 +0000

You’re a lifesaver! Thank you so much for posting this — I’ve now got the Zune software installed *with* wireless sync working on my WHS box. For what it’s worth, I didn’t have any issues with the Zune 3.0 software; maybe WHS installs some prereqs that aren’t present in a regular Server 2003 install.

Comment on What’s going on with Starbucks soy lattes? by Derek

Derek — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 23:30:11 +0000

Yup, I’m off Starbucks now. Even though the new soy isn’t quite as bad as the American stuff (after reading the label I determined it has about 4 more grams of sugar than the Silk stuff, still 5g less than the american variety), it still has a kind of artificial taste to it and, like you said, for $4.75 it’s gotta be better than that.

On the plus side, my bank account is perfectly happy without the added $5 a day expense.

Comment on What’s going on with Starbucks soy lattes? by Jason

Jason — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 14:45:52 +0000

I use to buy a soy latte every morning .. my store used to use Silk .. two weeks ago it tasted like crap .. turns out that they did switch and its some generic ‘foaming’ soymilk that tastes like crap .. I told them for $4.75 at least use a good soy like Silk .. supposedly a corporate directive .. Starbucks is losing it .. cutting costs, hurting product .. lost consumer .. I now buy black coffee from Tim Hortons

Comment on What’s going on with Starbucks soy lattes? by Peter

Peter — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 07:43:51 +0000

Time to get one of those aerolattes and make lattes at work!

Comment on TransLink has (indirectly) redeemed itself by Derek

Derek — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 18:32:45 +0000

Now that TransLink has their next bus service available via SMS (i.e. text the bus stop number to 33333 and get the list of arrival times for the next few buses), that should make this kind of information accessible to more people (not just the Blackberry/iPhone elite ).

The cost of showing next bus times on electronic signs at every stop would not be trivial and I’d question the value-add in such a system… Afterall, you’re at the stop anyway so in most cases you’re getting on the bus when it comes (… if it comes? ha).

Comment on TransLink has (indirectly) redeemed itself by rib

rib — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 18:09:17 +0000

Not to be negative, but rather than sending next-bus arrival times to people wealthy enough to have iPhones and Blackberrys.. hoe about flashing this info to electronic signs installed at the bus stops?

They have that feature only on the B-lines, but what about all the otehr bus routes in the city ???