http://waz.ca Fri, 04 Dec 2009 18:00:25 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en So my website went down for 6 months this summer. I'm not to sure what happened but I believe it was a issue with my web server being attacked by a huge spam infection due to having no defined e-mail addresses. Basically anyone could send any e-mail to "whateveryouwant"@waz.ca and ... http://waz.ca/news/back-online-after-6-month-downtime/ Long time no update; I just got back from a week in Mexico, specifically Mazatlan. It was nice to get out of the cloud, snow and cold and enjoy the sun and the warmth for a while. I’ll have all my pictures up soon on flickr or Facebook but here ... http://waz.ca/news/mexico/ I could have sworn I wrote an entry in December, however I recently upgraded the database, and upgraded to Wordpress 2.7 so that might have gotten lost in the update. So it is a new year, new database and now a new update. December was just a amazing ... http://waz.ca/news/happy-new-year/ So I haven’t updated the blog since I got back from Montreal and for good reason. My 1st day back in Nelson I sprained my wrist on a bike ride, a week later I left for Kelowna where I resided for the last 2 months. While in Kelowna I had ... http://waz.ca/news/fall-update/ The Weekend before Adapt On Thursday I caught a ride up to Calgary where I flew out to Montreal arriving a few days early to explore and be a tourist for a while. I got in Friday morning at 7:30 and had to make my way up to the place I ... http://waz.ca/news/the-last-2-weeks-recap/ So I forgot the cable to upload pictures from my camera and not having a laptop I don't have access to Photoshop at the moment. But the Adapt conference is now over and later this evening I'll be on a plane to Vancouver, back on the West coast. Montreal has ... http://waz.ca/news/adapt-is-now-over/ Tomorrow I leave on my way to Montreal for the Adapt 08 conference. I hooked up a ride from Nelson's rideshare website to Canmore where I'll hitch hike to Calgary and fly from Calgary to Montreal, arriving at 7:00am Friday. With the weekend before Adapt to take in the sights ... http://waz.ca/news/on-the-road-to-adapt-08/ I just got back from Nelson's own Fat Tire Festival, a 3 day event celebrating mountain bikes. Friday is registration day with a costume parade down Baker St, Saturday is the XC race and on Sunday is the 3x downhill on Morning Mountain. The course was dry and dusty and ... http://waz.ca/biking/fat-tire-festival-08/ Last week I had a chance to hike up Jumbo Pass in the Purcell's. We came in from the Nelson side along Glacier Creek road so I didn't get a chance to see any of the new construction that the developers had started until stopped by protesters. If you don't ... http://waz.ca/hiking/keep-it-wild/ While I was in Kelowna for June and July I got onto a science fiction kick and was only reading or playing games based on science fiction. It started when I got into Eve Online a little bit, loving how hard the combat is and the amazing sense of loss ... http://waz.ca/3d/science-fiction/