We were in a quandry as to how to entertain our British clients on their visit here to Vancouver. As British Columbians, we’re somewhat oblivious to the natural beauty surrounding us, tending to assume that our city and environs are boring – hardly of any interest to those from a place as historic as Europe.

Take our office’s location. We bill the Sun Tower as “historic” on our website, though at only 95 year old, its historic quotient is just not as impressive as we are fond of believing. As our guests entered our office, I overheard Brit #1 (Pete) remark to Brit #2 (Chris), “Cute new modern building eh?” (OK, so he didn’t say ‘eh’, this was added for Canuck flavouring. In fact, the entire conversation may have been fabricated, but there’s no proof of that.)

Come along with us while we walk you through our riveting rafting adventure!

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As a software company selling products for websites, we deal with all types of hosting environments, yet few perform to our expectations. Customers often outgrow their hosting or experience hosting related problems and have to go back and forth between their hosting companies and us, when all they want is to have their site running smoothly.

Our response? Nuts to this, we’ll do it ourselves! With our extensive software expertise coupled with the experience gained in dealing with hundreds of hosting companies, we created a platform that truly expresses how we think hosting should be.

And so, in 2002, Gossamer Host was born! Come along with us and have a gander at what we’ve built in our data centre in Vancouver, BC!

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Just a minor update to our WordPress Tag Cloud Plugin.

You can now display your tags underneath a post entry! Spectacular we know! You can set whether or not you want them to show up through the Tag Options menu too if you think the Tag Cloud is sufficient.

Have fun and happy tagging!

This plugin is available for download and is free!

Download Gossamer Threads WP Tag Cloud Plugin v0.2

We’ve been in business for quite a long time now and with the 4th iteration of our site recently released, we’ve been inspired to take a look back into the past. Take a look at what Gossamer-Threads.com used to be, in all its nostalgic glory!

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For those who have not discovered the dynamic game of ‘Ultimate‘, I believe the game can best be described as an unholy union of football, soccer and frisbee. According to www.whatisultimate.com, the game originated on US college campuses in the ’60s, so you know it’s gotta be good!

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