It’s Just Across From The Santa Maria
This past Saturday, I headed out to the well known West Edmonton Mall to check out one of the latest stores to open. For those that don’t know, West Edmonton Mall was for the longest time the biggest shopping mall in the world. Thanks to the construction boom in China it’s now relegated to the largest mall in North America, and the fourth largest in the world. That still doesn’t stop it from attracting a large number of tourists every year, as well as a number of unique retailers not seen anywhere else in Edmonton. My destination today is just a retailer.
That’s right, the biggest mall in North America now has an outlet for one of the most hyped brands online. Joining the ranks of Vancouver, Toronto, and Montreal, we now have our own Apple Store. Apple’s products are decent, but thanks to the barbarian hordes know as the Apple fanboy you’d think Apple was the second coming of Jesus. Yes they are surprisingly absent from the above pic. That’s because I went to weekend after opening weekend. I don’t dig mass hysteria over a single company, don’t like getting up before 10:00 AM on a Saturday unless there’s a damn good reason, and I had another miracle to witness that morning. Even with all that, I was still drawn to the place. I had to check out the gadgets within, which I’ll further showcase after the jump.
A Fitting Canada Day Sponsor
When I was considering where to host this blog, I of course considered the big guys like GoDaddy. It was the easy way out, since everyone knew about them. I was then turned on to BlueFur Hosting after recommendations from John Chow, and reading on Ed Lau’s blog about how their cheapest package held up against the full brunt of hitting the Digg front page. I decided to look into their packages and company further. This lead me to write a small article about their name change for TTZ, and then sign up for their basic hosting package.
Since then it’s been a great year or so. Though I doubt I’ll hit the Digg front page anytime soon, I still find BlueFur’s hosting to be top notch, and their support to be helpful and responsive. It’s even better that they’re a Canadian company, which makes this all the more appropriate. It is after all Canada Day, and I can hear the fireworks going off from downtown right now. So with that being said, I would like to announce that this blog is now a member of the BlueFur Hosting affiliate program.
What does that mean exactly? Well all you need to do is click on the BlueFur at the top of the sidebar. Then whenever you purchase anything from BlueFur, you simply need to enter the affiliate code Decius and you will receive 10% of any purchase. That way all 5 of you who read this blog can enjoy some additional savings on you hosting and domain purchases.