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FITC 2011 – The Aftermath

11-May-11

A week later and I am still unable to fully use my voice for anything other than the occasional croak. FITC, you are a beautiful beast. Due to scheduling conflicts, the HotDOCS documentary film festival was also running, I did not attend as dutifully as I normally would. I was honoured to speak at FITC [...]

Help the Production of Influential

12-Apr-11

I am looking for an able-bodied individual to help me with recording at FiTC Toronto. The organizers of FiTC have graciously donated a pass to the event to someone who can give me a hand. It’s a pretty amazing value Here are the requirements. The candidate is someone who: 1. Is willing to lose a [...]

FiTC 10 Year

11-Apr-11

“No, I won’t be doing IronFlash this year.” Over the past 10 years of FiTC, I have been proud to be included as a speaker 4 times. I also ran a live coding competition called IronFlash for four years straight. Once it was even televised on TechTV! Ah, the good ol’ days. This will be [...]

My 2010 In Review

21-Dec-10

2010 was a strange year for me. Freelance Unintentionally I did less client work than I should have. When I started working on a portfolio, I had to wonder how I managed to pay my mortgage with how little work I did. Heck, I even griped about not working in April. You know that feeling [...]

FiTC Made Me Fat. Again.

28-Apr-10

After finally getting back to the gym in March and actually making an effort, I was excited to see I could get back in shape. Then FiTC. Son of a… three days of sessions and four nights of catching up sets my exercise recovery back by a month at least. I feel I can never [...]

FiTC. Over for Another Year.

26-Apr-07

My body nearly gave up on me this year. I missed the entire first day (nearly) due to exhaustion. Declan had some weird croupy cough Saturday night, so we brought him to emergency as a just in case. We were there from 10pm to 2 am. Now that’s good, efficient healthcare. On to FiTC;- Craig [...]

Panic. Don't Panic.

16-Apr-07

FiTC, formerly known as FlashintheCan, is a week away. Have you got your ticket(s)?

Chumby, Part Deux. Thanks FiTC.

06-Mar-07

Although I said, “sent some of the people involved with FiTC their alpha prototype Chumby.”, I should have said that FiTC, namely Shawn Pucknell, made it happen. I guess he figured we might want to do something cool and be intrigued by this little bean bag of fun. So thanks Shawn. I may not be [...]