fourONEsixSTYLE

When I started this blog over a year ago I was given a handful of templates to choose from created by Blogger, and because it was a Sunday afternoon whim I chose this one.

However, the site has evolved and it may be time for the branding to evolve too. I appreciate all you loyal blog readers stopping by fourONEsixSTYLE and think you deserve a bit more eye-candy. Problem is Blogger doesn’t let you change the template unless you’re willing to part with all your content - and I’m not. I do have some solutions up my sleeve so stay tuned and tell me what you think of the simple design I whipped together for you.

Blogger TShirt
Originally uploaded by kengo.

Eleven months into my blogging hobby I now have 5 blogs, I’ve created 114 posts and -here’s the BIG NEWS- today I reached 10,000 hits. Thank you all for stopping by, leaving comments (that’s what blogging’s all about) and showing your support for my writing habit.

Feel like going for a spin? FourONEsixSTYLE will take you for a ride around Toronto. Need to know what’s hot in technology and media? Freshtracks will give you the latest news, reviews and breakthroughs. Don’t want to travel the bumpy road anymore? Travel in style when you visit bumpmedia’s travel blog.

Burgeoning blogs include one for my Theta friends from University to stay in touch, and another blog building up to the 2010 Whistler Olympics (I can’t wait).

Highlights of my blog career include getting posted on CBC’s The Hour homepage (thanks for noticing) and getting one of my flickr photos published on a book cover.

Now that I’m feeling like an old time blog pro I’ve also started contributing to an addictive urban blog called blogTO. You’ll catch me posting there at least 3 times a week.

“Where do you find the time?” my friends ask. I know though that if I wasn’t writing I’d go mad. So please, drop by and read my blogs now and then and help contribute to my sanity.

One of the first things Toronto blog 416style shared with its readers was news about the Apple store opening in Yorkdale Mall near the 401. This writer was none too pleased that the new store wasn’t positioned as a downtown Apple landmark location. Less than a year later, we’ll get our Apple in the core, at Toronto’s famous Eaton Centre. The Grand Opening takes place this Saturday May 6th at 9:30am.

ginza apple store
Originally uploaded by 416style.

Over the weekend, crowds rushed Toronto’s new Apple store. I might have been there too but I felt horribly let down by Apple, a company I’ve loved and supported since the wee age of 10. The Apple store is, and should be, an icon, a landmark, in cities around the world. (See Tokyo’s store in the high-end shopping district of Ginza.) Ours is a stinking little store in Yorkdale mall, and this is the first one Canada gets?