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Flickr is Baby Photo InsuranceOctober 21

I am a pretty strong believer in personal responsibility.

So don’t expect me to be crying a river this morning for a couple who have lost all their baby photos.

Jimmy and Tamala Lapointe were shocked to discover that their laptop had been stolen from a Vancouver parkade — but their shock turned to a sinking feeling as they realized that their irreplaceable baby photographs were on the computer’s hard drive, and nowhere else.
[The Province]

There are two rules about baby photos. 1) Back them up. 2) Back them up.

There is no excuse NOT to have a file backup in this modern era of communication. I wrote about this in 24hrs last year, and now the topic is rolling around again.

External drives have sunk to $100 for 1TB of storage, Apple offers Mobile Me with 20Gb of storage for all Mac users, countless other web services exist to get your pictures off your hard drive and into the cloud or onto a duplicate drive.

It’s easy. It takes seconds. It can be free. There is no e

Tim Horton’s Is Recycling Cups in North VancouverOctober 20

A few months back, when Tim Horton’s was rrrolling up the rrrim, I lamented that contests like this, while fun, do nothing but encourage people to buy disposable cups. Even when I would bring my own mug to the drive thru, the clerks would hand over an empty cup, because it was the game piece.

The worst part is the cups are unrecyclable. Check that - Tim Horton’s cups were unrecyclable. Check out what they’e done to the garbage bins inside my neighborhood Tim’s.

I LOVE this approach. Canadians are usually pretty good at cleaning up after themselves, and the sealed bins really hammer home the point that you don’t have to put everything in the garbage. While the bins are all sealed up, tent cards are scattered around the restaurant pointing people to the recycling bins which are now available for the cups.

Family Weekend in North Vancouver at Maplewood FarmOctober 19

Last weekend it was running through the leaves in Stanley Park. This weekend it was up close and personal with the rabbits, goats, sheep, chickens and horses at Maplewood Farm in North Vancouver.

iPhone App Review: LED FootballOctober 17

Up until now, every single application on my iPhone is a free app. That changed when I saw LED Football in the iTunes App Store.

I’ll let the video tell the story, but I couldn’t wait to spend 99 cents on, simply, the greatest video game ever.

The Blog According to Buzz. Spread the word, ya heard?

Canada First in World To Take Action Against BPAOctober 17

Despite the fact that I write about Vancouver, hockey, cooking, my son, Team Diabetes and politics, the most viewed pages on this blog are those pertaining to Bisphenol-A (BPA) and how it has been used in the production of children’s bottles. Avent, for example denies the impact of BPA and even sits on the board of the pro-BPA lobby.

If you have children, please re-read the my posts about BPA, what it is, where it is, and what you can do to find products made without it.

That final step could become a lot easier as soon as this weekend, as the federal government is set to place BPA on Canada’s list of toxic substances as soon as tomorrow. [globe]

This will make Canada the first in the world to declare Bisphenol-A as dangerous and toxic to humans