Category: montreal + canada + the world

(photos coming once I get my camera cable!) Crazy travel day today. Bad timing on the snow last night in MTL meant my plane this AM took off late while…

Allen Singing with The Police Love this shot of Allen, a fellow Planker, singing onstage with the Police, during a benefit pre-concert event (1st to the left of Sting) More…

Huge congrats to our own Stephane Daury on this one. I can still hear his shouts of joy when he found out he won ! ;-) Congratulations to Stéphane Daury…

Saturday traditions Not many Saturday’s that I’m here in the city, but when I am, I love to go a couple doors down to Bella Vista (Corner of Coloniale and…

Interesting. Ubisoft has revealed that it makes 10x more money per $ spent on Nintendo game development than it does on PS3/XBOX. No wonder the Montréal headquartered company is ramping…

Let me preface this by saying – I’m far from an economist; Our dollar is now worth 8-10% more than the US Dollar. Stands to reason that prices at the…

As I think about so many of my friends all flying towards Central America in the next couple of weeks; how strange it is to meet up in such a…

This product is finally out — the Trackstick II for 180$. It’s a small cheap GPS stick which can constantly track it’s location down to 15 meters anywhere in the…

Bought my tickets for Costa Rica for the end of November (22nd > 2nd) — nice and cheap due to the time of year. I can only head down for…

Love this shot Nancy (fellow Planker) took of the building across from our windows at work. Thankfully Montreal is a beautiful city and we all get to enjoy views like…

The boys over at Tiger have been busy! They recently got the WESC fall 07 collection onto store shelves across Canada and wow… some beautiful pieces… Jesse writes… “For those…

If you need a phone from Fido, take a good look at the Nokia 6300. It’s thin, built solid and doesn’t feel plastic-y, the interface is fast, and it has…

Finally our new camera. A Canon SD800is. Our last Canon PS A75 did us well – we took well over 15,000 photos with it over a 3 year span. You…

Wow.. Warren just got back from the bank. In prep for his trip to Buenos Aires he had to exchange some Canadian $ for US $. The bank gave him…

Johan has been pumping out the custom boards. He made quite a few over the summer and his work is really starting to shine. His latest creation went out to…