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Graphic designers / illustrators wanted
Submitted by Doug Schmidt on Tue, 07/24/2007 - 11:29.
Our company is looking for more talent, specifically in the graphic design / illustrator area. We have immediate positions that need to be filled, either on a contract or contract-to-hire basis.
Ideal candidates will be able to "own" the conception of a new product from the discovery or "pie-in-the-sky" phase through to the production of wireframes and graphic design concepts.
If that sounds like you or someone you know, have them contact me (preferrably with a link to a portfolio of previous work).
My 411:
Doug Schmidt
Vancouver Operations Manager (& Big Geek), EffectiveUI Canada
[email protected]
Mobile: 604-551-4840
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Submitted by Doug Schmidt on Mon, 07/23/2007 - 14:07.
Hello fellow Workspacers! (is that the correct collective noun?)
Today marks the launching of the Vancouver office for EffectiveUI Canada, a subsidiary of Denver-based EffectiveUI.
We're a design firm specializing in immersive user experiences using rich internet applications. Stuff like this and this.
Tobias Patton, Jason Wong, and I will be hanging around here at Workspace for the next while, and are looking forward to meeting the rest of the regular crowd.
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Happy Birthday, Dane!
Submitted by Nancy aka money... on Mon, 07/16/2007 - 08:51.
Hey, Dane, came for one of your Dane's-Best-Latte-In-Vancouvers, and discovered it's your birthday! Best, best wishes!-nancy
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Serve a meal to the homeless
Submitted by Xavier on Fri, 07/13/2007 - 14:05.
"Shelter Program with the Guavaclub"
For those who have yet to experience this, please sign-up and gain tremendous satisfaction in serving a wholesome meal to over 100 of those living in the downtown east side, on the streets or in nooks and crannies
WHAT? Get to know fellow GuavaClubbers and serve a meal to the homeless
WHEN? Tuesday, July 17th
TIME? 8:00pm
WHERE? Blenz Cafe. Cnr of Granville & Nelson Sts
HOW MANY? 6 people
REGISTER? Please email Celia - Event Host. [email protected]
Please register as soon as you can, by emailing Celia: [email protected]
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Glowing From Glow - The Vancouver Acupuncture and Wellness Centre That Is Finally Curing Me
Submitted by Megan Cole on Thu, 07/12/2007 - 16:25.
Glow Wellness Centre In Vancouver Is The Answer To Holistic Healing
I have finally found an acupuncture and wellness centre in Vancouver to heal me! I have had many body ailments and injuries over the past 20 years, mostly rips, tears and fractures from playing all kinds of sports, landing a few snowboarding concussions, but also from being quite accident prone in general - who else tears out their entire shoulder from slipping and tumbling down a snowy, wet escalator in the Montreal Metro?
I have visited somewhere between 5 and 10 different physiotherapists in 4 cities across Canada over the last decade, all of them have helped me tremendously, and all have lent a hand in fixing whatever needed fixing. But I am not quite 100% on most injuries. The trick (for me) with physical injuries to the body: consistency and diligence - you'd think it'd be easy to do those stretches and exercises twice a day to improve your strength. It's not. If things are mostly working, I think I am good to go. How stubborn.
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Juicy financial gossip for geeks and cdns
Submitted by Nancy aka money... on Tue, 07/10/2007 - 10:59.
Now here's some really fun economic gossip!
1. Turns out Rogers Canada (owned in large part by AT&T) charges Canadians about 6 (six!) times the price for wireless data than AT&T charges their US customers. Canada: $299/month. US: $63/month. There's an online petition to Rogers if you care to protest.
2. And on the tech theme, Google just bought Postini Inc. What's postini? It provides security for e-mail. This means gmail will become even more popular. Google's stock price rose by $3.16US, while Microsoft fell by 10¢.
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How does your tax dollar get spent?
Submitted by Nancy aka money... on Tue, 07/03/2007 - 21:51.
It being Canada day and all, thought I'd investigate how our tax dollars, that make Canada, Canada, get spent. Here's the breakdown:
$0.15 - interest on the debt (pays our Canada Savings Bonds interest, for example)
- $0.23 - go to individual Canadians (like Old Age Security - $0.13, and Employment Insurance - $0.06, Child Tax Benefit - $0.04)
- $0.19 - given to provinces and territories to implement federal programs like healthcare-$0.08, education & social assistance -$0.03
There you have it. Note that some of the things we love to hate, social assistance and employment insurance, were only about $0.06 cents of the dollar, whereas old age security is actually the largest single item after interest on the debt.Now we know!
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Looking for a room or a studio for the summer
Submitted by Florian Gabriel on Mon, 07/02/2007 - 11:27.
Hey Workspacers
My brother from Switzerland is coming to town for the summer. Now I am looking for a furnished room or a studio in Vancouver.
May be you know somebody that is going away for the summer and wants to sublet or somebody that is interested to share his/her big house.... Budget 400 - 550 per month. Drop me a line if you know of anything.
My brother is easy going, 35, very Swiss, but nice.
Thanks, Florian
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Am I Crazy: Chronicles of an Entrepreneur Part 6
Submitted by Kevin Royes on Mon, 06/25/2007 - 14:30.
Am I Crazy: Chronicles of an Entrepreneur Part 6
YEEHAW…..I have a licensing deal with an established Chinese factory that pays an impressive 20% royalty, but first let me step back. I started this blog a few months ago with the question: Am I crazy? It was one of those days when I was questioning what the hell I was up to. I had been working on this new tool concept for 11 months which was to weave itself into a brand new category of hand tools and spawn a whole new industry (think Leatherman)…with my company riding the wave all the way to the top.
Yes, I had grand (attainable) aspirations, yet on that particular day I was over-run with the fact that people I wanted to work with weren’t returning my calls, My factory was getting increasingly difficult to communicate with. My working prototype was months behind schedule. I was running out of money.
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Amazing Performance Art Show
Submitted by Kevin Royes on Mon, 06/18/2007 - 15:54.
12 artists of varying talents are paired together, shake hands and are given two weeks to weave their gifts into a unique collaborative performance piece.
The show is called Brief Encounters and I have been to the last two events...absolutely incredible and a must see for anyone looking for an eclectic evening of not knowing what to expect.
This years lineup includes a tabala player, a swordsman, a flamenco dancer, an actor and eight others.
A bunch of us are heading to the show on the 20th. Hope to see some of you WORKSPACERS there.
Two nights: June 19th and 20th,
The Anza Club (#3 West 8th).
Doors at 7:30, show at 8pm.
Tix $15 at the door, cash only.
After-show lounge with dj Jacob Cino.
info: [email protected]
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