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January
We arrived back to Vancouver in December after six months working in China. There wasn’t much going on for ThoughtWorks in Vancouver when I got back, and so, after weighing my options, I decided to respectfully part ways with the company. My 5.5 years with ThoughtWorks were full of great opportunities, great people and great [...]

Today is a proud day for Canadian athletes. No, I’m not talking about the Olympics. I’m referring to the World Ultimate Frisbee championships that concluded today in Vancouver. Canadian teams won gold in the Open (Men’s) and Mixed (Co-ed) divisions. The Open division final was the highlight with incredible displays of athleticism exceeding what I’ve [...]

I have been reading with horror the unfolding news of the major earthquake that struck China’s Sichuan province earlier this week. Having just returned from 6 months living in China — in Xi’an, more precisely, which is not too far from epicenter of the quake — the news of the aftermath hits much closer to [...]

Last Monday night, we went and saw Ani DiFranco at the UBC Chan Centre. I’ve seen Ani in concert 5 times, and this time was definitely not a disappointment. She played a lot of material from her forthcoming album and it was truly excellent. I think that it’s pretty rare to see an artist in [...]

At 8pm Saturday March 29th, people around the world turned out the lights in support of Earth Hour. Earth Hour is a campaign organized by the WWF to raise awareness of the connection between energy use and global climate change. The event encourages people to take action by turning off their lights and power to [...]

I had my last day at ThoughtWorks about 3 weeks ago. In my 5.5 years with the company I had the chance to live in 4 countries (Canada, China, India and England) and to work with and learn from some really amazing people. I think that ThoughtWorks is a great company with a great depth [...]

Last night, we ran Agile Vancouver’s first Tech Talk session. The session was co-organized with Skye Cove at Sophos. The tech talk idea came out of our desire to get more technical content into the regular Agile Vancouver meet ups. We also wanted a different format from the regular monthly talking head presentations. Our goal [...]

My friend Josie Leung recently returned from Lubumbashi in the Democratic Republic of Congo where she was helping to support a rural medical clinic there. She has set up a charity on GiveMeaning.com to try to raise the funds to support the continued operation of the clinic. The charity needs a certain number of votes [...]