Summer has finally come to Vancouver. The temperature has been in the high 20′s for the past three days and I’m enjoying the respite from the typical grey raininess to which I’ve become accustomed. Today I skipped the commute to UBC and headed up Burnaby Mountain to SFU instead. I’m currently sitting in the sun [...]
In my capacity as an HCI grad student/usability professional, I recently had the opportunity to evaluate a blogging tool from a company here in Vancouver. Qumana provides a local software interface to pretty much any web-based blogging software you can think of. While the software is definitely still a work in progress (they are still [...]
Well, 10.8k to be exact. I had planned on doing a considerably shorter distance this weekend, but the Conquer the Point race at UBC was cancelled. So I’ve decided to enter the Do It For Dad race here in Burnaby because: 1) it’s a short bike ride from my house and 2) It doesn’t start [...]
I did my first 10k race ever on Sunday. Running is definitely my least favourite part of triathlon and I don’t train for it nearly as much as I should. In fact, this race was the first time in my life I had ever run 10k! My longest training runs so far have been only [...]
Here I am after yet another long break from blogging. Hopefully I can manage to stick with it this time. Since you last heard from me I’ve finished my courses at school and gotten involved in way too many extracurricular activities, from school-related committees to more exciting endeavours… like triathlons! Vancouver is an extremely fit [...]