I’ve always been a fan of Canon’s ‘G’ line of cameras. The G1 that I have sitting in my drawer is slated to become an Infrared Camera once I have time enough to do the conversion. The G7 I have is my backup camera but is currently in use as I wait on some warranty repairs for my G9 which failed (lens stuck open) while I was in Calgary. Fortunately for me, I always travel with a backup. The G7 with an external Speedlite 430EX flash shoots really really good quality photos – this is evidenced by recent shots in my flickr photostream.

At the same time, I have to mention that the G7 I have had been put through the ringer. Allegedly it’s shot thousands and thousands of aerial ‘map’ shots for a well known company.

All aside, with the G9 in the shop for at least 6 – 8 weeks (that’s at least 2000 photos missed), and the outright refusal to go back to my little digital snappy, rather than buy a new G9, the G10 is here in October!

Thanks to PopPhoto.com for the deets, HERE. More on the camera, after the jump.
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More regarding ‘No Fun City!’ – you can catch my previous post, HERE.

<rant> Here we go again. Business in Vancouver or BC for that matter is always a tough cookie. I can recount the story of a colleague (Vancouverite) who opened up the same business simultaneously in Alberta and BC. Within 30 days, he was running in Alberta and has a profitable little enterprise. After about 3 years in BC, no permit issued to run the company by the powers that be, he’s given up. He’s also packed up and moved to Cowtown.

Well, another well-respected Calgarian, Zak Pashak, someone I’ve dealt with in Calgary at the Broken City and for the Sled Island Festival, is now running up against a wall with his new venture, the Biltmore Cabaret.

Why? Well, it’s the City or Vancouver, ‘No Fun City!’ – not the people up top, not the people who should be making decisions, but the bureaucracy and the generally anti-innovation/anti-business/anti-capitalist machinery in between. People instilled in this city by the NDP, the left and those that support people like Gregor Robertson.

Single women frequently ask me where the good (straight) men are. I’ll tell you – they’re off making their money elsewhere, where the business climate is better. Only a few of us survive here. </rant>

I digress.

So, Zak’s gone and written an open letter to Peter Ladner, who’s likely going to be the man in charge after this November’s election. Hopefully Mr. Ladner can help.

Preface by Greg McMullen. You can read it, and the open letter after the jump.
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I recently upgraded to Firefox 3 – what a mess! All of a sudden some of my trusty extensions stopped working. One of them, Universal Print, the tool I use to print all my tabs out (sometimes there’s 50 and they all have to go to PDF for processing by the staff) broke.

Note to self (and anyone else who cares:) printing 50 tabs manually is a major pain in the ass. Doesn’t matter how mad your control-tab, control-p, [enter] skillz are.

So, Mark Grimes to the rescue. He’s created a nifty Firefox add-on called ‘Print All Tabs.’ It even has a mode which will allow you to cycle through your tabs and select the tabs you want to print. Pretty Slick.

According to the Mozilla people, the add-on is experimental but given the wringer I put this add-on through, I’d say it’s road ready and more stable than ‘Universal Print’ which would crash my browser on occasion. Of course, that could’ve been Firefox 2, as well.

So, back to ‘Print All Tabs,’ you can download it (requires you to Log in) HERE. Feel like thanking the developer for his love? Find him HERE.

The Vancouver Whitecaps Football Club needs your support. Sign up and MLS could come to Vancouver!

Here’s the details:

Dear Raj,

As you may already know, the Whitecaps are pursuing one of two Major League Soccer (MLS) expansion franchises set to be added to the league by 2011. As part of the bid to secure an MLS franchise, the Whitecaps also announced that local sports icon, Steve Nash, will join the Whitecaps ownership team.  For more information on this announcement, click here.

The MLS have since announced that the deadline to submit a franchise bid to Major League Soccer is October 15, 2008.

In order to make this bid as strong as possible, we are asking all Whitecaps supporters to register your support of the bid on our website.  To register your support now, please visit whitecapsfc.com/mls.

Thank you for your support.

Sincerely,

Your Whitecaps