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Yahoo and Flickr: ’til death do us part

Yazan: Candace | 02 February 2007 | Comments Off on Yahoo and Flickr: ’til death do us part
Categories: Flickr, Web Applications, Yahoo

There’s unrest about the latest development over at Flickr. As of March 15th 2007, old skool members will be required to retire their old flickr logins and use a yahoo id to access their accounts. Yahoo and its supporters call this a ‘merge’, hardcore old skoolers call it abandonment. Take a look at how some […]

Google Calendar: scheduling every other week

Yazan: Candace | 05 January 2007 | Comments Off on Google Calendar: scheduling every other week
Categories: Calendars, Google

Google calendar has some handy features for scheduling repeat events. For classes this works fabulously because I can set “repeats Mon, Wed, Fri” or “repeats Tues, Thurs” or repeats weekly, monthly, daily, or yearly. Birthdays naturally go yearly, and aikido and gymnastics go weekly. I can set a stop date: “repeats weekly” and then use […]

Meaningful work

Yazan: Candace | 04 January 2007 | No Comments
Categories: Activism, Blogging, Life, Technology, Third Wave

If I lived in Vancouver, was done school, and looking for work, this job opening at Social Signal would be the one for me. In the meantime, maybe this is the one for you? Here are some excerpts from the posting. For the entire job description and more about Social Signal, click through to Alexandra […]

Poverty Diet

Yazan: Candace | 27 December 2006 | No Comments
Categories: Bodies, Culture, Food, Life, Sexism

Best diet I’ve ever heard of. It worked well, steady weight loss over time, kept it off well too. The secret? Not having enough money to buy food. Pay the shelter bills first – hopefully you’ve enough for those. Next: feed the kids – peanut butter, pasta, tomato sauce, and dried beans from the food […]

Aikido, violence against women, and my daughter’s sensei

Yazan: Candace | 22 December 2006 | Comments Off on Aikido, violence against women, and my daughter’s sensei
Categories: Activism, Bodies, Culture, Feminism, Life, Sexism, Women's Studies

Prompted by a discussion with my daughter’s sensei I felt a need to review some violence against women stats. All images in this post are by fotografer.ru. Check this out: in Canada, from WAVAW: One half of all Canadian women have experienced at least one incident of sexual or physical violence. Almost 60% of these […]

No amount of capsaicin

Yazan: Candace | 21 December 2006 | No Comments
Categories: Bodies, Food, Life, Relationships

No amount of capsaicin will kill this cold. At this point, officially Day 3, I’ve lost my appetite anyway though if someone wanted to make me a bowl of spicy lentil soup I would give eating it my best effort. I’ve drained a bottle of hot sauce and it doesn’t seem to have done a […]

How many rainbows does it take?

Yazan: Candace | 19 December 2006 | No Comments
Categories: Aging, Divorce, Family, Life, Relationships

Happy Birthday to me. I have a bit of a cold but I’m dosing with mega-Vitamin C and echinacea-goldenseal tincture. I wrote my last exam today, I proctored the exam for the last class as TA for the semester and I’m about halfway through the marking. Later Rob is taking me for dinner and there […]

Good things

Yazan: Candace | 08 December 2006 | No Comments
Categories: Activism, Culture, Family, Feminism, Food, Happy, Life, Relationships, Third Wave, Women's Studies

I am in such a wonderfully good place right now. There are still enough days between now and due dates that I’m not yet in full freakout, and I am surrounded by the most wonderful and caring people anyone could know. It began yesterday with some sweet things my kids said, then I was surprised […]

Too Socialist

Yazan: Candace | 08 December 2006 | No Comments
Categories: Culture, Language, Life, Religion, School

I seem to be in a perpetual struggle for a secular education for my kids at the local public school. This past week my daughter brought home a spelling worksheet with the sentence “Insects are one of the many creatures God created. The word insects was underlined to be replaced with one of the list […]

WoW Talent Specs for Level 27 and 28 Priest

Yazan: Candace | 08 December 2006 | Comments Off on WoW Talent Specs for Level 27 and 28 Priest
Categories: Games, World of Warcraft

My priest in World Of Warcraft is Level 28, working her way up to 60 bit by bit. With the latest Before the Storm patch every character gets their Talent points reimbursed so that you can re-spec given the changes that have been made to each class, race and talent tree. Lots of things have […]

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