I remember a time when a Virtual Reality business setup shop in my hometown of Victoria, BC, inside Hillside mall. Run like a futuristic arcade, you stepped into booth and put a clunky headset on, you were given some kind of joystick and told you would experience virtual reality for a couple dollars a minute. I… Read more »
Ever see those spots of black on improperly sealed windows? Ever get a headache, or start sneezing from a musty smell? Mycotoxins. Myco come from a Greek word mykes meaning fungus and toxins from the Latin word tocicum meaning poison. The fungus or mold making the mycotoxins use it as a way of defense by… Read more »
Being productive and generally awesome at your job requires a lot of energy and focus. Both of which are very dependent on how much attention you pay to nutrition and how well you know what works for your body. It’s hard to be stuck at a desk all day, mostly because it’s draining and… Read more »
What is Free to Play (F2P) all about? Back in the early days of PC gaming I can remember how coveted game demos were. Magazines often packaged a CD-Rom of current game demos as a value add to give you just enough of a taste to whet your appetite, hook you, and get you to purchase the… Read more »
I welcome gaming with friends, it’s a great way to unwind, catch up, and have a few laughs. Being of the video game generation , I never expected I would revert to board games. I’ve owned everything from an old Atari computer with Basic and a floppy drive to load games, to a 286’s to… Read more »
Forward I wrote this for a creative writing class back in 2009. It’s been sitting on my computer and in the back of my mind since then. When I was writing it, the idea of mining asteroids wasn’t yet in the public eye and I don’t believe I had seen Avatar yet despite some of the themes and language now… Read more »
While Samsung and Apple fight for patents about who’s got round or square corners, a slide to unlock and other mundane and generally indiscernible features, workers at a major manufacturing plant are rioting and striking in the thousands for fair wages. Of course manufacturers bid for contracts and the lower they go, the higher the… Read more »
Instead of writing a eulogy for Research In Motion, I would rather focus on some ideas that might save the brand. Perhaps it’s because I’m on optimist, or because I’m a hopeful Canadian entrepreneur and recent grad of Royal Roads University‘s Bachelor of Commerce program that I can’t help but think of ways to save… Read more »
RIM has been a flash point of conversation throughout my business program. Almost every tech and business focused writer has had some criticism for the ill fated company. Quite simply, the Blackberry was the worlds entry to text messaging, push mail and security. Perhaps they were caught sleeping at the wheel, while Apple design began… Read more »
Jeremy Calhoun was on the cusp of his 11th birthday when his father decided a camping trip was in order. Hunting, fishing and living off the land were hard lessons only learn-able in the wild spaces between civilizations. Cornelius Calhoun liked his meat pure and his data well cooked. He was a Statistician by trade and quite… Read more »
Alexander Kline
Seasoned project manager, business designer and entrepreneur.