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I’m really excited to live in Vancouver today – Go Canada.

Hey – I’m in this show. It’s put on by Vancouver is Awesome, is starting next week and is taking place at Shine nightclub. Should be pretty cool. Check out the full flyer here for all the details, and big thanks to Randy Laybourne for asking me to take part.

So for the past 3 days I’ve been in Mountain View at the Mozilla offices for work. It has been a really good 3 days full of lots of free food, and especially free beer. I don’t have a cable for my camera but here are some pictures from my webcam and that I stole from Roland’s flickr.

Here’s a picture I took of myself with all this Firefox swag. Firefox swag is awesome, I got a bunch of stickers and buttons and a livestrong style bracelet. I put a bunch of stickers on my mouse.

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I just finished putting together my good friend David Lang’s new website. You should check it out at www.davidlang.me. David Lang pretty much rules because he has a job where he gets to do the most mind blowingly awesome stuff, is half asian, and falls asleep when he drinks.

I think me and David are going to work on his book next and it’s probably going to rule a lot.

Oh also I’m going to the Bay Area tomorrow for work and then for hanging out with family. Maybe I will update about that but most likely I will just tweet about being at In N’ Out burger.

I was just sent a link to a theatre company in Switzerland called Theatre du Grutli who has been using Neighbourhood for their signage, promotional pieces and website. It’s so cool to see Neighbourhood being used in other parts of the world. I added some of their images on the Neighbourhood usage page.

Hoping for good things to come.

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Just put together this poster for the Group Hug new years eve show. I basically got a brief of “do something space themed and mystical, it’s called the future”. Pretty fun little project. Check out the facebook page for more info on the event.

My friend Bryce’s band WZRDZ played the Astoria last friday night. Here’s a quick picture I took. It was pretty awesome, it’s nice to see a band in Vancouver who don’t take themselves super seriously and aren’t trying to be the next Joy Division.

Going to check out the Tangents show that Jeff Hamada put together in collaboration with Lifetime Collective tonight. Should be a good one.

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Today has been a really good day, and it’s only 12:25pm. First off the post I made about Raindrop mobile got picked up on Tech Crunch and Lifehacker. Secondly, when I got off the computer and went upstairs I found my new pair of Sugino cranks waiting for me. Excited to get my frame back from the machine shop and mount these.

This coming Thursday is the 8th installment of the Vancouver Pecha Kucha series. I’ve never actually been to one of these things so it will be my first one. My friend Harrison Boyce is speaking at this one, and Twitter tells me he just finished his presentation. Apparently tickets for this one are already sold out but the next one is on November 26th. Anyway, excited to check it out.

So against my better judgement I have enabled comments on this site. This unfortunately goes against my goal of creating the starkest and most clinical theme ever, but it might be fun. I have also implemented a keyboard shortcut for search. Simply press the “S” key to activate the search menu. If you don’t have a keyboard for any reason, you can also access this menu via the Search link in the upper right hand corner of the page.

The Here is Now pop-up art show is tonight. My friends Kyle Scully, Jessica Delorme and Jeff Hamada are showing their work. Should be fun.

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The project I’ve been working on at Mozilla for the past 3 months has launched today. Raindrop is an ongoing, open-source, extensible, web messaging platform which prioritizes your inbox. I’ve added the project to my portfolio page which you can see here. This is not so much an official release with everything in place, but rather the release of an open design process. We are encouraging other designers and developers to engage in discourse with us. The Raindrop project page also has a bunch of essential links all relating to Raindrop, so if you are interested please take a look at them and leave us some feedback on the Raindrop Design blog.

I just added the Art & Sole project to my portfolio. It’s funny—the night of the show one of my shoes went missing, and only one of my shoes ever actually got documented. Apparently my other shoe was retrieved from under a car seat and placed back in El Kartel after the opening night, but I haven’t seen it yet. I kind of like that this is the only shoe that most people will see since I like this one a lot more than the other.

In other news I’ve also cleaned up my projects and added some space for new projects which will be up soon (The ones labeled coming soon). There is also a “in use” page for Neighbourhood type, documenting some of the things people have made with it. I’m going to keep that updated with other peoples work, so if you have a project you’ve used Neighbourhood for and would like it featured just shoot me an e-mail.