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Arriving in Vancouver
The last time I was here in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, was about exactly one year ago. Reason: Web Directions North 2007, which was great. So back this year. Why? Web Directions North 2008,...
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Two days of workshops at WDN plus Canucks vs. Stars
The first two days of Web Directions North 2008 are done and dusted and here comes a quick summary. Monday: Transcending CSS (workshop), Andy Clarke Andy, in his inimitable way, talked us through the...
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Web Directions North – Days 3 and 4
So after 2 days of workshops on Monday and Tuesday, the official part of the conference started Wednesday. With conferences like this, with so many interesting topics, it is always hard to decide...
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Euro KickOff
Based on a project done by my colleague at Yahoo!, Simon Jobling, who created World Cup KickOff two years ago, I joined him as a developer to create a follow-up project for the upcoming Euro 2008...
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Rock n’ Running in Los Angeles
Will Ferrell did it in just over 2 hours, the winner, Fernando Cabada, in 1 hour 4 minutes 56 seconds and I was somewhere in between in the Los Angeles Rock n’ Roll (RnR) Half Marathon, aptly themed as...
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Gamblers, Con artists, Comedians, Hookers…and a few (thousand) Runners
While California was haunted by a storm, I escaped the rain only to find myself on the Las Vegas Strip on a Sunday afternoon in early December at the starting line of the Rock ‘n’ Roll Las Vegas...
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Great Western Bicycle Festival
Rest stops at century cycling events bring together a whole bunch of different people. Almost like an airport. There is the dad with his two, thin-like-a-stick sons, all dressed alike in the same type...
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Run Van
For the first time in my running career, if one can call it that, I had legitimately made it to the front corral of an event. I had the magic color, yellow, in this case, on my bib number which granted...
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Scaling Hell
Getting up at 5am to participate in a trail run up a mountain sounds like an insane idea. For some. My recent dabbling in trail running as well as having signed up for a big trail race in November,...
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The Hilly Lands of Marin
I stumbled out of my motel on Lombard Street in San Francisco at 6:35 in the morning. My muscles tensed up as the comfortable warmth of the motel room escaped almost immediately from my body and the...
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