An Osborne Executive portable computer, from 1982, with a Zilog Z80 4 MHz CPU, and a 2007 Apple iPhone with a 412 MHz ARM11 CPU; the Executive weighs 100 times as much, has nearly 500 times the volume, costs approximately 10 times as much (adjusted for inflation), and has about 1/100th the clock frequency of the smartphone.

Moore’s Law and Murphy’s Law

One good law deserves another, or why fly on one wing? Seriously, I intended to add some information about Moore’s Law here because it comes up in conversation often and did again today, so I took that as a cue to look it up and extract a blog post from the findings and yes there’s […]

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Orpheum Theatre Vancouver

Orpheum Theatre for Easter Sunday

Thanks to Coastal Church of Vancouver for opening the doors of the Orpheum Theatre and entertaining us, and presenting such an awe inspiring Easter Sunday presentation. During the service we celebrated the resurrection of our Saviour with dynamic worship music, stories of real life change, special media, musical elements, and a powerful message from Pastor, […]

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Earth Day

Earth Day in the Pacific Northwest

There’s no other day that deserves recognition and celebration like Earth Day, we don’t even know how old she is, or who lives inside her and on her sea floor but we managed to exploit every square inch of the place we call earth. Today I give thanks and declare my love of mother earth, […]

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In the Mood For Love - Maggie Cheung - cheongsam style

China, Cheongsam and the Last Emperor

Beautiful and elegant in cheongsam China has cast a magic spell on me, I’m enchanted with the middle kingdom, it’s wonderful people, past and present. My mind is attracted to all things related to the far east. Lately I’ve been admiring cheongsam worn by the stunning beautiful women of China. Men can dress to match, […]

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One Belt One Road

Belt and Road Initiative and Infrastructure Funding

Taschkent UZ – Barak-khan Medrese, on the old Silk Road Vancouver Intercontinental Consulting Group (VICG) is a team of seasoned financial professionals that specialize in introducing infrastructure funding projects to engineering and constructions companies in Beijing. Contractors have excess capacity of equipment and manpower, to construct every imaginable type of infrastructure, and they are seeking […]

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Clean Water Production

Clean Water Production, Storage and Consumption

Starting on January 1, 2019 I began buying filtered water and storing in glass water storage bottles and looking at my future of water filtration and storage systems. This page and section is another of those sort of sticky notes to self, to aggregate more data about alternative water filtration technology and ideas for the […]

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Ninurta Enterprises Vertical farming

Ninurta Enterprises and Agriplex Vertical Farming

Ninurta Enterprises Incorporated (NEI) is a socially conscious and spiritually responsible sustainable engineering consulting firm that provides scientifically engineered solutions addressing the subjects of food, water, energy, housing, clothing, and waste recycling. We are capable of designing multi-tiered, scalable, and cross-platform systems with special focus on self-sustainable indoor vertical farming. Vertical farm Lettuce grown in […]

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Cannabis Industry

Cannabis Industry and Investment Banking

Cannabis Education at the University of British Columbia, almost oxymoron if it weren’t for the degree of science and the seriousness of the pursuit of the magic bi-product that the cannabis plant can render; money! We’re witness to an amazing spectacle, the industrialization, commercialization and stock market exploitation of weed. Vancouver has regained her crown […]

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Confronting the Disinformation

Confronting the Disinformation Age

With David Frum, Sue Gardner,and Christopher Wylie This event will be live webcast. Visit our YouTube channel to set a reminder.   SFU Public Square and Vancity are proud to co-present Confronting the Disinformation Age, featuring Canadians David Frum, Senior Editor at The Atlantic; Sue Gardner, Executive Director of The Markup and former Executive Director of the Wikimedia Foundation; and Christopher Wylie, Cambridge Analytica whistleblower, in […]

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Julian Assange

Julian Assange is just a messenger

Julian Assange arrested on 11 April 2019 Julian Assange is not making up stories to cause mayhem in people’s lives, or to enrich himself from paparazzi, he’s just an electronic messenger, of information that other people created. Once upon a time this was known as journalism, now it’s classified as conspiracy theory by the people […]

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