New life after accident
Teen tried jumping onboard moving train.
After losing legs;embraces new life.
27. January 2012
25. January 2012
Chinese New Year Celebration
The dragon is considered to be the most powerful and luckiest animal in the Chinese Zodiac.
After midnight; Chinese Buddhists around the world went to pray at Guan-Yin Temple in Richmond, B.C. to ensure the coming year is a good one.
Source: Globe and Mail
24. January 2012
Apple reports record profits
Holiday purchases of the new iPhone helped them during the consumer spending slump.
Sales rose 73 per cent to $46.3 billion.
Apple sold 37 million iPhones, up from the previous record of 20.34 million
Source: Vancouver Sun
RIM Shares fall
Shares were down more than nine per cent Monday after the founders stepped down and a new CEO was named from within.
New CEO-Thorsten Heins.
Source: CBC News
22. January 2012
Happy 4710!
Chinese New Year starts at midnight Jan 23rd.
It’s year 4710.
Year of the Dragon; considered to be the luckiest of all the Chinese Zodiac signs.
Happy Chinese New Year!
Enjoy your celebrations!
21. January 2012
Panel event January 21st
How To Understand Women
Mainly a panel of women but I’m one of the guys invited to speak tonight from a male perspective.
6pm at The Tipper Restaurant in Vancouver.
$5 entry.
20. January 2012
SOPA bill pulled
Lamar Smith, the chief sponsor of SOPA, is pulling the bill until there is wider agreement on a solution.
Source: Mashable
19. January 2012
SOPA and PIPA fight
Thousands of calls and emails flooded into Capitol Hill after Wikipedia led 10,000 websites in a 24-hour blackout yesterday to protest.
The lead sponsors of the bills have promised to make changes and are expected to remove the most controversial provision, which would allow Internet service providers to block access to foreign-based piracy sites. Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), the lead backer of PIPA, is working on a set of amendments he plans to unveil before Tuesday’s vote.
Source: Los Angeles Times
Japanese innovation
Grizzly bear gloves by Jetl.
It’s not from a real bear; just fake fur and fleece lining.
On the left side of the glove is “warm fleece”
The long-haired faux fur, with a combination of fleece inside is pretty warm.
Drawcord cord on the right side has to be tightened -regulation.
