Beyond the Rhetoric

Yesterday, I gave you a sense of the adventures I had during the Nokia N97 mini tour as we traveled via RV from Vancouver to Calgary. Today, we take a look at the device that they were aiming to promote with this tour, which is currently continuing its way east toward Montreal and Toronto. The [...]

As you may have heard, I spent most of last week on a Nokia-branded RV as part of the Nokia N97 mini tour. We cruised our way from Vancouver to Calgary, hitting up all sorts of touristy hot spots along the way. Hanging out with my RV blogging buddies, we paid a visit to Salmon [...]

“You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you.” One of my favorite novels of all time is Animal Farm by George Orwell and this is largely because it was a book that I read during school. If it wasn’t for the guidance and instruction of my teacher, I probably wouldn’t [...]

Toy Story 3 (2010) I didn’t exactly have the highest of hopes when I stepped into the movie theatre to catch Toy Story 3 in 3D. I figured it was going to be another less than impressive sequel that is simply capitalizing on its existing brand. As it turns out, I was wrong and I [...]

Today’s blog post was partly inspired by the talk given by Raul Pacheco during Freelance Camp Vancouver back in May. He reminded everyone that freelancing is not free and, at some point, you have to decide to stop working for free. Surely, you’ve seen the listings offering writing “opportunities” in exchange for “exposure” and the [...]