With Intuit about to release their updated Mac version of the venerable financial manager program Quicken, I heard the developer on the Macworld Podcast say that early beta testers were calling the slickly redesigned app “the missing iLife App”.

Following Apple’s naming convention, that means they might have called their new program “iMoney”. But, I wondered, was there already an iMoney app out there?

Sadly, yes. And, yuck.

First off, it’s a PC app. Deal-breaker, and extra demerits for for ripping off the “i” naming convention in a transparently lame attempt to sprinkle a little Apple cool-factor on their typically kludgy-looking PC product. No Steve-Jobs-approved simplicity and slickness here.

Then there’s that utterly pedestrian website, with overly-precise phrasing that has a heavy whiff of “Engrish” to it: “Show all your finance easily” or my favourite: “Where am I Money?”

But hey, it’s an award-winning program! If by “Award” you mean that it works with an almost-current version of Windows. They do. The rest of their “awards” seem to be for the fact that they’re not spyware (congratulations guys!) or for reasons unknown, as none of the award logos are clickable.

Perhaps they just created this program to tempt Apple into buying them out – and taking over that name. If so, good luck to them!

I’m a big fan of Jonathan Goldstein’s CBC Radio show, “Wiretap“. So when he brought his show to Vancouver for a live performance of some of his best stories, I was there! View the entire Flickr photoset.

The satirically-arch-conservative host of The Colbert Report brought his “Defeat The World” road show to Vancouver for some Olympic fun at us Canucks’ expense. It was hilarious, and I had a (practically) front-row seat! Check out my great video and photos.

Watch out for that first step., originally uploaded by Cosmo Canuck.

The East entrance to the Jack Bell Research Centre at VGH has been, shall we say, de-contextualized by the impending construction of a new building adjacent to it.

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Last night I was fortunate to have the chance to see the new play, “Scorched”, at the Waterfront Theatre. Ironically, it was due to a critique of theatre posters in general, wherein I happened to use their poster as an example of one of my points, that led in a roundabout way to me being [...]