Arrived safe and sound today in Banff for CanUX 2008 (you can read more about the first day at Techvibes). The highway was perfect until Red Deer, and was covered in snow and windy the rest of the way to Banff. The roads inside Banff itself are quite icy, so I’m glad the main townsite is only a 15 minute walk from The Banff Centre where the conference is taking place. Hopefully I’ll get some time to head down there.
I’m having a great time so far! Two of the best things have been the food and the wireless. I wasn’t sure what to expect from hotel-provided food, but it is actually very good. I can definitely handle another two days of this. The other positive is the wireless – the entire grounds are covered in wireless Internet, and it seems pretty fast. Upload isn’t terribly quick, but that’s okay.
Another plus was getting to meet some more Edmonton Twitterers in person: @designcookhouse, @trevvg, @jessmcmullin, and a few others. Oh and @mwarf from Lethbridge too!
Here are my weekly notes:
- A carpooling startup in Ontario lost a legal battle against bus companies who sued under what has to be one of the dumbest laws ever. TechCrunch has the scoop.
- I’m not sure how accurate this is, but one site claims there are over 1 billion tweets.
- Speaking of Twitter, check out this interview with Veronica McGregor who twittered for NASA as the Mars Phoenix robot.
- Apparently 50% of U.S. engineering students dropout. Interesting.
- Spencer Elden, the baby from the cover of Nirvana’s Nevermind, has recreated the iconic album cover as a seventeen year-old.
- Gizmodo wrote about some new laptop batteries that could last 8 times longer than current ones without adding great expense.
You can find my photos from CanUX here (I’ll keep adding to it). Also – follow along on Twitter!
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