Visual Hunt Rocks for Publishers

Portrait of black cat with yellow eyes from Visual Hunt

Ever since the first time I saw Visual Hunt it’s been the most commonly visited website for me, next to Drudge Report and Zero Hedge. That one resource changed publishing for me because I always knew I would be able to find a suitable image that wouldn’t cause a copyright issue. Until Visual Hunt was … Read more

Moore’s Law and Murphy’s Law

An Osborne Executive portable computer, from 1982, with a Zilog Z80 4 MHz CPU, and a 2007 Apple iPhone with a 412 MHz ARM11 CPU; the Executive weighs 100 times as much, has nearly 500 times the volume, costs approximately 10 times as much (adjusted for inflation), and has about 1/100th the clock frequency of the smartphone.

One good law deserves another, or why fly on one wing? Seriously, I intended to add some information about Moore’s Law here because it comes up in conversation often and did again today, so I took that as a cue to look it up and extract a blog post from the findings and yes there’s … Read more

Orpheum Theatre for Easter Sunday

Orpheum Theatre Vancouver

Thanks to Coastal Church of Vancouver for opening the doors of the Orpheum Theatre and entertaining us, and presenting such an awe inspiring Easter Sunday presentation. During the service we celebrated the resurrection of our Saviour with dynamic worship music, stories of real life change, special media, musical elements, and a powerful message from Pastor, … Read more

Earth Day in the Pacific Northwest

Earth Day

There’s no other day that deserves recognition and celebration like Earth Day, we don’t even know how old she is, or who lives inside her and on her sea floor but we managed to exploit every square inch of the place we call earth. Today I give thanks and declare my love of mother earth, … Read more

China, Cheongsam and the Last Emperor

In the Mood For Love - Maggie Cheung - cheongsam style

China has cast a magic spell on me, I’m enchanted with the middle kingdom, it’s wonderful people, past and present. My mind is attracted to all things related to the far east. Lately I’ve been admiring cheongsam worn by the stunning beautiful women of China. Men can dress to match, I once recall seeing a … Read more

Belt and Road Initiative and Infrastructure Funding

One Belt One Road

Vancouver Intercontinental Consulting Group (VICG) is a team of seasoned financial professionals that specialize in introducing infrastructure funding projects to engineering and constructions companies in Beijing. Contractors have excess capacity of equipment and manpower, to construct every imaginable type of infrastructure, and they are seeking large infrastructure projects. VICG have direct access to China’s largest … Read more

Ninurta Enterprises and Agriplex Vertical Farming

Ninurta Enterprises Vertical farming

Ninurta Enterprises Incorporated (NEI) is a socially conscious and spiritually responsible sustainable engineering consulting firm that provides scientifically engineered solutions addressing the subjects of food, water, energy, housing, clothing, and waste recycling. We are capable of designing multi-tiered, scalable, and cross-platform systems with special focus on self-sustainable indoor vertical farming. Vertical farm Dickson Despommier is … Read more

Cannabis Industry and Investment Banking

Cannabis Industry

Cannabis Education at the University of British Columbia, almost oxymoron if it weren’t for the degree of science and the seriousness of the pursuit of the magic bi-product that the cannabis plant can render; money! We’re witness to an amazing spectacle, the industrialization, commercialization and stock market exploitation of weed. Vancouver has regained her crown … Read more

Confronting the Disinformation Age

Confronting the Disinformation

With David Frum, Sue Gardner,and Christopher Wylie This event will be live webcast. Visit our YouTube channel to set a reminder.   SFU Public Square and Vancity are proud to co-present Confronting the Disinformation Age, featuring Canadians David Frum, Senior Editor at The Atlantic; Sue Gardner, Executive Director of The Markup and former Executive Director of the Wikimedia Foundation; and Christopher Wylie, Cambridge Analytica whistleblower, in … Read more