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DroidCon Berlin, May 2010
I was there at the first and there at the second – DroidCon my friends, I’m talking about DroidCon. For those who aren’t too heavily into emerging technology, a DroidCon is an Android Conference. You won’t see R2D2 types, although you may run into somewhat of a simulation of one through the use of a ...
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DroidCamp Berlin May 2010
You know you’re hanging with the right “tech” crowd in Germany when you turn around to find the AndroidPIT team sitting right behind you. Fabien Röhlinger and Sven Woltmann are quite the pair. Having worked together for over eight years (it could be more, I just had a brain fart), the two make an exceptional complementary ...
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Smoking Can Be Strange
Back in the Golden Age of Hollywood, smoking was considered sophisticated, classy and downright cool. Women got into the act and it brought about a whole other class of “sexy”. Fast forward 20 years later and smoking has taken a 180 turn. In cities where the banning of smoking indoors has been enforced, people have ...
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Augmented Reality Developer Camp
If one were not too familiar with the term “augmented reality” then one could easily mistake this title as a description to a camping trip where much smoking of a certain kind of plant took place, sure enough to augment anyone’s reality. Oh, if that were only true. Instead of me going into it, you ...
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CeBIT 2010
Am I lucky or am I lucky. Yes folks, my life is all about living the dream. It was in the mid ’90′s when I first heard of CeBIT. It was a strange name to an almost native Torontonian who grew up attending Private Catholic Schools – thank goodness they were co-ed. But it was ...
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i Am Digital Femme
If there was one name that certainly summed up most of what I do, delve in, love or spend most of my hard earned euro’s on it would be “digital femme”. Although I often wonder if I just should’ve used “gadget femme” instead. So what’s in a name? In this case, quite a lot. A ...
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Mobile World Congress 2010
When one thinks of Spain, visions of tapas, dark haired exotic beauties, flamenco and the torero may happen to pop in mind but for me it slightly differs. You know you’re a geek (somewhat) when the mention of Spain gets you drooling at the notion of attending the largest mobile technology event this side of ...
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State of Mind
What’s really important is not how many contracts or NDA’s you sign or if your invoice gets paid on time, it’s really what takes place in between. It’s even not the skills you use or the great ideas you implement that really, really matters. What’s really of value are those few moments when “human to ...
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Mannerisms
Absolutely and without a doubt, this is NOT my morning “get-ready” routine. Obviously my sense of humor falls second to the absurdity that stems from my brain. The preparation for this photo was carefully thought out to make a rather poignant statement. It expressed my feelings during a time (and all the time) when I ...
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This is a dream …. right?
I am the kind of person that has lavish, adventurous and engaging dreams. I am also the kind of person who wakes up recalling most of every detail. I also dream in colour. There is however, one dream that I cannot seem to wake up from. I am also hoping that it IS a dream ...
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HP Event with Stefan Marquard.
Edelman Munich put on a great event for HP Europe (Germany) at the Genuss Akademie, here in Frankfurt. Martina Pennekamp, Tanja Schürmann and the team at Edelman really did a great job with the venue, the logistics and in getting Stefan Marquard as the host Chef for the evening. The entire event was done very ...
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Michael Jackson’s Memorial. 1958 – 2009
Watching Michael Jackson’s Memorial at the Staples Center in California. I wish I had a television but thank goodness for livestreaming onto the internet. I was amazed at how the entire memorial event was conducted in a very orderly, serene and respectful way. The fans were really well behaved. I was afraid people would rush ...
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The strong and free.
How true those words are now. After leaving the nursing profession in 2007, in what may seem like an impulsive act to many (little did they know that I had been waiting for the opportunity to spread my wings), the reality of “free” is not what I had envisioned. Being “free” is a very powerful ...
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In constant transition …
…. that’s how I feel .. or have been feeling since I left Toronto in ’96. I’d like to think that my leaving beloved Toronto was simply a call of destiny and that the 11 years spent in Texas was of course, part of the entire spiritual process. Indeed, the 11 years of nursing had ...
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R.I.P. Michael Jackson
Today is unlike any other day the world can ever imagine. What make’s one person’s life that much more important only after he dies – I will never know. What I do know is how he lived. The joy, the creativity, the love, the humanity and the giving that came from one individual who had ...