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CSS Get Naked Day

Yazan: Candace | 05 April 2007 | 2 Comments
Categories: Blogging, Culture, Life, Technology

What happened to the design? Today is the 2nd Annual Naked Day, when people everywhere disable the styles on their websites. The idea is promoting Web Standards. It’s a good time to see how your site loads (i.e. how far down the page is your real content?) I tested to see how it would look […]

Casey Froese, hockey player: are we ready for girls in the boys’ room?

Yazan: Candace | 30 March 2007 | 7 Comments
Categories: Activism, Canadiana, Culture, Diversity, Feminism, Feminist Theory, Third Wave, Women's Studies

Front page of the Windsor Star today: Casey Froese (age 11) is a minor hockey player in Windsor, Ontario. Recently it was discovered that she’s been suiting up all season in the boys’ (ages 9-10) locker room. Since then, she’s been told to suit up somewhere separate from the boys. Glenn Froese, her father, says […]

Restoring Feeds in Opera

Yazan: Candace | 22 March 2007 | Comments Off on Restoring Feeds in Opera
Categories: Opera, Organizing, Web Applications

I like Opera. I really do. I haven’t found anything better for reading feeds which means it’s open on my desktop almost all the time. Or at least it was until I switched from Windows XP to Suse 10.2. Because I’ve been busy with school and life it’s taken me awhile to copy over my […]

Another idea for dealing with .docx files

Yazan: Candace | 16 March 2007 | Comments Off on Another idea for dealing with .docx files
Categories: Google, Hellmares, Web Applications

Another idea for dealing with the .docx files that Does Not Work! It’s still bothering me that a user cannot simply and easily open these files and work with them. I had another idea: Gmail now includes the option to open some files as Google documents — would this work with the dread .docx? I […]

John Jay High School

Yazan: Candace | 09 March 2007 | 7 Comments
Categories: Activism, Bodies, Culture, Feminism, Feminist Theory, Language, Life, School, Sexism, Sexuality, Third Wave, Women's Studies

Wasn’t it just International Women’s Day? Couldn’t we celebrate instead of attacking women? Update: Contact phone number for John Jay High School in NY: 914 763-7200 Leave a message with the principal in support of the Megan Reback, Elan Stahl and Hannah Levinson. I got a link to the censorship taking place at John Jay […]

Viewing .docx in Suse 10.2

Yazan: Candace | 06 March 2007 | Comments Off on Viewing .docx in Suse 10.2
Categories: Hellmares, Linux, Microsoft, Organizing

Jeff wouldn’t give up so I guess I couldn’t either. He saw my last post and has had suggested several solutions for opening a .docx but without Word 2007 it’s a major challenge for now. If I had Word 2003 there’s an update but I’m an OpenOffice user on both my Linux and Windows machines […]

.docx will drive me to drink

Yazan: Candace | 04 March 2007 | Comments Off on .docx will drive me to drink
Categories: Hellmares, Microsoft

I have a pile of files here that need opening and they’re all in this file format I’ve never seen before: .docx. It looks vaguely familiar — probably a Microsoft something, related to the .doc format.

Grocery Musings

Yazan: Candace | 02 March 2007 | 8 Comments
Categories: Canadiana, Culture, Ecofeminism, Environment, Family, Food, Life

A few things I’ve noticed about grocery stores, groceries, and grocery shopping: During the day on a weekday, the grocery store is filled with women with babies and old people. Even in this factory town where a large number of people are shiftworkers there are few men, fewer men with children, and very very few […]

Bucking the System

Yazan: Candace | 14 February 2007 | No Comments
Categories: Activism, Bodies, Culture, Diversity, Divorce, Family, Feminism, Feminist Theory, Happy, Language, Life, Marriage, Masculinity, Relationships, Sexism, Sexuality, Third Wave, Women's Studies

When you decide that things aren’t quite right and that you have the power to make changes in the world, however large or small those changes might be, you leave the path. You can no longer follow the map of your youth, the instruction book your parents gave you, or mimic the decisions made by […]

Winter Projects

Yazan: Candace | 02 February 2007 | No Comments
Categories: Academia, Activism, Blogging, Blogher, Canadiana, Culture, Feminism, Happy, History, Life, northernvoice, School, Technology, Third Wave, Women's Studies

I turned in my application to the MA history program with an exciting proposal to collect oral histories from the last women to give birth on Pelee Island,Ontario, back in the 1950s. By then most women were relocating to either mainland Ontario (Leamington or Windsor) or to Ohio to give birth. I’m excited because there’s […]

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