inCommunicado - eric eggertson

I met Krista Baliko at a podcasters’ meetup last year, (even though neither of us is a podcaster), so I like to watch her progress working at the CBC Mother Corp.
Good to see she’s got a blog this week, as she posts about the goings-on in Saskatoon around the JUNO awards. The awards show time […]

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Whenever I lose something, I kick myself for not doing a better job of labelling it, so the finder can return it, if they’re so inclined.

So an offer by Trackitback to sell me five of their lost-and-found return stickers for a total of $20 was too good to resist.  (No one in the family […]

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Confesion: I have a thing for signage.  I rave about good signage, and contantly harp about the perils of bad signage.
When I see a new stop sign - without warning signs about the change - all I see is a lawsuit.  When I can barely navigate a parking garage because the signs are […]

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Every time I try out another third-party tool to view my Flickr photos, the creative options out there reinforces the cool factor in the Flickr brand.
But it’s not just my photos I can play around with. All public photos on Flickr are available for anyone to view and sort.

Kevin Dugan pointed me to a site […]

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Kelley turned 21 the day we first went out.  I showed up at The Ubyssey production night to take her out for a hamburger at 2 a.m.  Her ex-boyfriend tagged along.  It was her birthday, and (after we dumped Glen) I kissed her on the back doorstep of the house where she was staying on […]

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  How to cross the street in Brooklyn    Originally uploaded by gillicious.
You stay subscribed to some blogs just because you like to be surprised by whatever the person might do.
I came across Gillian Gunson on Flickr, and have subscribed to her blog Gillianic Tendencies for a year now.  Lots of […]

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  Red Rorbu - Lofoten Islands, Norway    Originally uploaded by LeeLeFever_TwinF.
I’ve been following Lee and Sachi Lefever’s trip around the world on their The World Is Not Flat site.
Their most recent destination is Norway, with some amazing photos of the fjords and craggy cliffs that drop straight into the water.

I […]

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I finally dropped by Zooomr.com and set up an account.  Let’s see if the html code works right…
20DollarBill Hosted on Zooomr
Update:  I figured out why I was having trouble displaying the photo.  In Typepad, you have to select "Edit HTML", or you need to click on "Customize the display of this page" and select Plain […]

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I’m not a big football fan, but we got free tickets to the Regina Rams game, and watched part of the domination by Saskatchewan of three B.C. teams this weekend.  Thanks for the tickets, Jill (my investment adviser at Scotia McLeod, who were game sponsors).
Saskatchewan Roughriders 23,  B.C. Lions 20
Regina Rams - 53,   Simon Fraser […]

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If Regina was a major North American tourist destination, then naming the marathon here after its nickname would weaken the race’s appeal to visitors, who might not know which city it’s held in. But because we aren’t likely to attract thousands of people from far-flung destinations, I guess calling it the Queen City Marathon doesn’t […]

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Update:  At the request of the Flickr member whose illegitimate use of others’ photos prompted this story, I’ve deleted his name from this post.  (He asked nicely.)
A short blog post by Vancouver web developer and photographer Kris Krug caught my eye back in February. He accused a fellow Flickr user [name deleted] of claiming credit […]

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