This week on Featured Album Friday, I’m showcasing John Vanderslice’s 2009 album – Romanian Names. A description of John Vanderslice can be found from his Last.FM: John Vanderslice (born May 22, 1967 in Gainesville, Florida) is an American musician, formerly of MK Ultra but now performing with his own band. After mk Ultra broke up [...]
Posted on March 27th, 2009 by Jon Lim
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Over the weekend, I was in Muskoka at a place called Fairy Lake for the first official team retreat for LIVE Conference 2009. We spent a great deal of time bonding with each other and having a ton of fun, which should be the goal of every retreat. Cooking meals and cleaning up are probably [...]
Posted on March 23rd, 2009 by Jon Lim
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This week on Featured Album Fridays, I’m showcasing Pink Mountaintops‘ 2009 album – Outside Love. A description of Pink Mountaintops can be found on the band’s Last.FM: Pink Mountaintops is Black Mountain frontman Stephen McBean’s side project. The music resembles the style of Black Mountain but has a more psychedelic and experimental side with mellow [...]
Posted on March 20th, 2009 by Jon Lim
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Today after a run at the gym, I took a look around at the other runners. I was surprised to see the amount of waste movement that many runners seem to have, which greatly affects their endurance and stamina. Now let me just say, I’m not a champion marathon runner, but I do know a [...]
Posted on March 17th, 2009 by Jon Lim
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This week, I’m showcasing an indie folk band! Featured Album Fridays presents Fanfarlo’s 2009 album, Reservoir. Here’s the band’s description from Last.FM: Fanfarlo were conceived by Simon (vocals, guitar, keys, mandolin, sax, glock) while he was taking shelter in a forest from a particularly heavy snowstorm in Sweden. Inspired to move to London to form [...]
Posted on March 13th, 2009 by Jon Lim
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Wanted to share this post from Mitch Joel’s blog, regarding the future of education. Check it out, especially the video of Sir Ken Robinson and his talk at a TED conference from several years ago. I will leave you with a quote that stuck to me: “If you’re not prepared to be wrong, you’ll never [...]
Posted on March 13th, 2009 by Jon Lim
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Earlier today, I tweeted about my feelings regarding the status of Nokia as a cell phone brand and company, and how their smartphones were being disregarded for the most part. Keep in mind that I myself carry a Nokia E71 and for the most part have been pleased with it, but several issues have turned [...]
Posted on March 11th, 2009 by Jon Lim
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Considering that Rogers has more than 6 million postpaid wireless subscribers (Source) where a good number of them still pay their System Access Fees, why are we still paying an arm and a leg for complacency? Let’s crunch the numbers: $6.95 – System Access Fee 6,451,000 – Approximate number of postpaid subscribers, as of December [...]
Posted on March 7th, 2009 by Jon Lim
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I’m going to preempt tonight’s Fifth Estate on CBC, which is entitled “Top Gun: When a video gaming obsession turns to addiction and tragedy”. I can only guess, but I’m going to guess this is about that boy who ran away from home because his parents took away his Xbox. We’ve all heard the story, [...]
Posted on March 6th, 2009 by Jon Lim
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This week on Featured Album Fridays, I’m showcasing Gentleman Reg’s 2009 album, Jet Black. This is from Gentleman Reg’s Last.FM: Reg Vermue, who records as Gentleman Reg, is a Canadian indie rock singer-songwriter. His folk-pop style has been compared to Rufus Wainwright, Aimee Mann and The Smiths. Members of Royal City and The Constantines regularly [...]
Posted on March 6th, 2009 by Jon Lim
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