“From the slopes of Big White to the shores of City Park in Kelowna, teams of up to seven people and soloists race others and the stopwatch over six legs that span 95 kilometers. The legs, in order of completion, are: alpine skiing, nordic skiing, mountain biking, road cycling, running, and canoeing/kayaking. Two people are required for the canoeing leg. The race is a relay and all team members are required to help bring the canoe equipment across the finish line.”

Good luck to all the participants!

“Fewer kids, less distraction and fewer smells; a Kelowna learning environment is helping autistic students perform their best.

Claro Learning Centre is an alternative to a traditional classroom that helps improve concentration.

“Children with autism have high sensory issues,” says Erin Hussey, Claro president. “Even the lights can cause issues.”

About 17 students, ranging from Grade 4 to grade 12, attend the learning centre. Many of the students have attended a variety of public and private schools, but have had trouble fitting in.

“I think it is going to become more and more difficult for a one-size-fits-all educational approach for students with special needs, especially with children on the autism spectrum,” says Hussey. ”

Read it on Global News: Autistic children benefit from unique learning environment

Here are the options:
Leafy Joe
Bobbi the Bonsai Tree
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Herman

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We came across some instructions on “How to Fix a Password Not Being Accepted When Connecting to a Workgroup Computer in Vista” and they worked, at: http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/83931-workgroup-password.html

Method One

Through Local Security Policy

Note
This method is for the Vista Business, Ultimate, and Enterprise editions only. For Vista Home Basic and Home Premium editions, see METHOD TWO below. 
1. Open Administrative Tools.
NOTE: In Start Menu or Control Panel (Classic View).

2. Click on Local Security Policy.

3. In the left pane, click the triangle next to Local Policy.

4. In the left pane, click on Security Options.

5. In the right pane near the bottom, click on Network security: LAN manager authentication level.

6. Click the drop down box, and click Send LM & NTLM – use NTLMv2 session security if negotiated.

7. Click on OK.

8. Restart the computer.

Method Two
Through the Registry

Note
This method is for all Vista versions. See the video below to also help.
1. Open the Start Menu.

2. In the white line (Start Search) area, type regedit and press Enter.

3. Click on Continue in the UAC prompt.

4. In regedit, go to:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Lsa
5. In the right pane, right click LmCompatibilityLevel and click Modify.
NOTE: If it doesn’t already exist, create a DWORD value named LmCompatibilityLevel

6. Set the value to 1

7. Reboot

UPDATE: Everything was working well until the OSX Lion upgrade. We got it going again by disabling and re-enabling File Sharing on the mac, and they individually enabling and disabling the users in th

Kelowna Chamber of Commerce Recognizes ITS for RISING STAR AWARD

Let me introduce you to “Firebug”. This is a great extension for Firefox, and will become your primary debugging tool as a web designer.

Where to get it:

Check out http://getfirebug.com/ for a download.

Once you install it and restart your browser you can inspect any web element within any webpage to see the layout, style sheet, or hidden formatting.

The context sensitive menu:

Once you click the “Inspect Element” right-click context- sensitive menu item you will be greeted with the Firebug window inset that will give you more info about your page than you will know what to do with. Go ahead, give it a try!

I would love to hear suggestions for more great tools and I would be more than happy to review them and write a quick intro.

Consider this problem: You want to convey to your customers that you have representatives for different geographical zones. Each of those zones has a unique contact. What’s the best way of doing that?

Well, you have a couple good options:

1. A list

2. Map

How do you create a map with all that information: Google Maps!

Here is a brief How-To!

Go to http://maps.google.com

Use the “My Maps” option to create a new map with custom pins, zones, routes and even information directly embedded into the pin information.

Use these controls:

Here is an example from my customer’s website StreetStrider.ca

In case my instructions are not enough, check out this video by our friends at Google.