The shock! The horror! The genuine nightmare of losing two more valuable character spaces per tweet! Such a scenario is indeed going to play out, as Twitter has just announced a subtle change in its t.co wrapper that'll go into play this coming February. The firm will be extending the maximum length of t.co wrapped links from 20 to 22 characters … [Read more...]
Fewer English, more international speakers in Vancouver region: census
October 24, 2012 by
The latest census numbers in the census metropolitan area of Vancouver show the same trend as Canada. The number of English speakers in the region has declined, from 57.6 per cent down to 57.2 per cent, or about 100,000 people. About the same is reflected in the rise of people whose mother tongue is something other than the two official … [Read more...]
More transit fare checks; fewer tickets issued
October 1, 2012 by
Transit Police have stepped up fare checks but the number of tickets they're writing is down. 230 thousand fare checks were made last month, resulting in 29-hundred tickets. A year ago in the same month 164-thousand fare checks were made with five-thousand tickets resulting. Translink Chief Operating Officer Doug Kelsey says it could be that … [Read more...]
05/20/2012 – VAM presents Juno Award-Winning Violinist Mark Fewer & Friends
May 20, 2012 by
The Vancouver Academy of Music (VAM) presents Mark Fewer & Friends, an eclectic afternoon concert featuring Juno award-winning violinist Mark Fewer and special guests, Sunday, May 20, 2012 at 2pm at the VAMs Koerner Recital Hall - a benefit concert for VAM's bursary program for underprivileged children. Joining Fewer will be Vancouver-based … [Read more...]
Researchers find fewer words being added to languages, fewer ways to tell you precisely that
March 19, 2012 by
What if one of the words in this post means absolutely nothing in the year 2094. It's possible, and more possible than ever before. That's according to recently published research from a group at the Institutions Markets Technologies' Lucca Institute for Advanced Studies in Italy, who have found that fewer new words are being added to languages … [Read more...]
