Archive for January, 2008

Hilton Garden Inn: Carlsbad

Tuesday, January 29th, 2008

On my first business trip I was booked by the local travel agency at the Hilton Garden Inn in Carlsbad, California and I quite liked it. Situated just off the I5 highway (or is that freeway?) just 30 minutes north of downtown San Diego this 3 storey hotel has a spectacular view of the Pacific Ocean and is close to various amenities including a short drive to Legoland.

Unfortunately the weather wasn’t the greatest because I seemed to have …

Dine Out: California Style

Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008

Now since I am not in the country and on a business trip in San Diego, California, I haven’t been able to partake in the yearly event that Greater Vancouver holds; DineOut Vancouver. So I have had to make up for dining out and going places that I have never been to.

This brings up the California Burger joint called In-N-Out. The colour scheme reminds me of McDonald’s but the food reminds me of a local pub. When …

My First Facebook Application Was A Bust

Friday, January 18th, 2008

While trying to increase my web programming knowledge I was thinking to myself: What can I learn that might benefit other people? That’s when I thought about Facebook and how it supports PHP applications.

The next thing was to think of a relatively easy project that would allow me to learn the Facebook programming environment and I thought about what Facebook is to some people; Facebook is a fun stalker web application! Ok so stalking isn’t a good thing …