The City of Richmond recently opened the first scramble intersection in the province. A scramble intersection will allow pedestrians to cross the road in any direction, including diagonally. The $600,000 crossing can be found at No. 1 Road and Moncton Street. I go to...
Water is essential to life. Unfortunately, most of the water we drink is treated heavily with chemicals and transported long distances in decaying pipes. Water filters are common in household to eliminate the dangerous elements that flow through our taps. Another...
A file may require permissions to access other documents in Windows. It could be an XFDF data file that uses a PDF template located either in its own folder or another path on a network. The file would need permissions to access that file if the file or the folder...
My old Olympus D-535 camera stopped working after years of operation. This was the first digital camera I bought and replaced an Olympus Stylus film camera I had previously. The camera worked well and took good photos, even though it was just 3.2 MP. I gave the camera...
As surprising at it may seem for someone who grew up in Canada, I’ve never been to a pumpkin patch until last week. I’m originally from Czechoslovakia and eastern Europeans don’t recognize the British traditions related to Halloween which include picking and...
The opening celebration for 2010 Winter Olympics at the Richmond O Zone had far less than the 25,000 people who attended the torch relay last Wednesday, so it was easier moving around today. After taking these photos, I realize that I need a better camera for taking...
Users /nm./: collective term for those who use computers. Users are divided into three types: novice, intermediate and expert. Novice Users: people who are afraid that simply pressing a key might break their computer. Intermediate Users: people who don’t know how to fix their computer after they’ve just pressed a key that broke it. Expert Users: people who break other people’s computers.
