B. Mann Consulting - Vancouver blogger, entrepreneur, and technologistI currently live in Vancouver, BC, and this is my professional/personal space online. You can find out more on the About page.From bmann to boris - an evolution of usernames- May 29, 2008 As I signed up for the umpteenth web service ever (g.ho.st, if you must know), I was thinking about the username I was entering. Once upon a time, I used 'bmann' exclusively. What's the story Well, at the University of Victoria, where I went to school, all students had a nice UNIX-y login that was first initial plus first 6 letters of the last name. Mine was nicely recognizable, and really, when you have a first name like Boris, something like "bee-mann" is nice and simple. And sometimes people.http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/bmannconsulting/~3/300429983/bmann-boris-evolution-username... Testing Ad Bard, a FOSS friendly ad network- May 27, 2008 I'm testing out a new advertising network built by Jeremy Andrews. Jeremy is a long time contributor to the Drupal project, mainly through switching his site KernelTrap over to it many years ago, and then being involved with many other Drupal businesses -- architecting major portions of CivicSpace among other things. Jeremy's current "day job" aside from KernelTrap is Tag1 Consulting, who are Drupal performance experts. He also happens to have built the Drupal Advertising module. The new...http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/bmannconsulting/~3/300421718/testing-ad-bard-foss-friendly-... DrupalCamp Vancouver 2008 this week- May 5, 2008 Well, before I knew it, DrupalCamp Vancouver has snuck up on me. I mean it when I say it snuck up on me: I had pretty much zero to do with organizing it -- massive kudos have to go to Dave Olson, Dale McGladdery, and Ariane K (I know there are others, like the guys from Image X Media and jkparker on kick off party duty and and and...). DrupalCamp Vancouver is this Friday and Saturday, May 9th and 10th, with a kick off party on Thursday night. As with all Drupal events, it's sold out (how are...http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/bmannconsulting/~3/283809299/drupalcamp-vancouver-2008-week |