2007.02.28
I had dinner at the Steamworks Brewing Company with Lee Edward Fodi this past evening. Lee is an incredibly talented children’s book author and illustrator and his amazing book, Kendra Kandlestar and the Box of Whispers, is one of my top ten favourite books. I highly recommend that you pick up a copy and read it. It makes a great gift from the tooth fairy! (hear a review on Just One More Book and hear an interview with Lee Edward Fodi).
Over dinner, Lee and I talked about Kendra Kandlestar and the Door to Unger (the highly anticipated sequel to Box of Whispers) which will be released in November 2007, public speaking, publishing and book promotion. An interview will be posted on the Just One More Book!! website, and I expect that I will do a number of interviews with Lee as he gears up for the November release.
You can follow progress on the new book on Lee’s blog.
2007.02.27
I have been struggling to upload files from my hotel room in Vancouver. I have been on the phone with tech support on four occassions and they constantly point me to Internet Frog to do speed tests which typically come out indicating better than 2Mbps download rates and roughly 115Kbps upload rates. That still doesn’t explain why I’ve never exceeded 4Kbps, and typically achieve only 1Kbps, upload rates — even at midnight when the tech support team claims I am the only person actively using the service.
Can you imagine it taking over an hour to upload a 6Mb file on a dial-up connection?
2007.02.26
TC Lions Pub may have the biggest beer pitchers in Canada. We had to cancel the second pitcher when we discovered that the server wasn’t kidding when he said “one gallon pitchers”.
There was a great crowd at last night’s Vancouver Podcast Meetup. I’ll see if I can remember names and URLs… Sean Carruthers (labrats.tv), Derek K. Miller (Penmachine and others), Jeffish (Swimming Upstream), Rebecca and John Bollwitt (RadioZoom and others), Professor and Doctor (Foreskin Radio), Fraser (Little Buzzers), Becky, James Clendenan, Dave (Vancouver’s Weekly Underground), and Johnny Johnny (Tiki Bar TV).
Congratulations (and thanks) to John and Rebecca, a Podcasting couple so dedicated to their passion that they spent their first wedding anniversary helping us polish off the pitcher.
