The travels of Justin

Put in a big order for utopian-engineered peoplehole covers, Microsoft has designed a high school:
Students — who are called “learners” — use smart cards to register attendance, open their digital lockers and track calories they consume. They carry laptops, not books, and the entire campus has wireless Internet access.
Teachers, or “educators,” rather than using blackboards, [...]

Last month I was answering questions about TRU and Canadian universities to Chinese parents. I’m sure China isn’t the only country that seems obsessed with ranking, but it’s a country where I have experience to talk about.
Constantly my friends and people I meet are asking me about what is the “best” university in Canada. They [...]

In 9-months Tianjin has become a familiar place for me, just as Kamloops did in my single year of living there. From the cosy dorm at TUT, it’s hard to imagine the amazing growth that this city will experience over the next 5-years. With its population of 10-million people (about 1/3 the population of Canada), [...]

Moments after writing my last entry, I stood up and said goodbye to the only other determined computer user left in the office. Knowing that doors are locked until morning, I waited patiently until 6:30 AM when I figured the doors would be unlocked. As I stood up and said goodbye, the fellow in the [...]

Before I moved to Kamloops, a friend who does catering there kept talking about summer events and big weddings at the Sportmart. Being familiar with Sportmart, the sport’s equipment retailer, I just couldn’t come to terms with the idea of pushing a rack of athletic supporters and hockey sticks aside while the bride marches down [...]

I found this after a visit to http://canada.info-syn.com:
Telus is blocking access to a pro-union website that it argues “contains confidential proprietary information and that photographs on the site raise privacy and security issues for certain of its employees.” Michael Geist reminds us that internet service providers—especially Telus—have argued vocally to let the courts, not companies, [...]