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Test your site at Browsershots.org

Yazan: Candace | 06 November 2006 | Comments Off on Test your site at Browsershots.org
Categories: Web Applications

Browsershots looks to be a free (as in beer), easy, one-stop way to test your site’s appearance in multiple browsers. You probably want your site to look good for everyone, regardless of what browser they’re using. This project makes it easy to see how you’re doing, including offering some old old browsers. Four easy steps:

PS3 European imports blocked

Yazan: Candace | 23 October 2006 | Comments Off on PS3 European imports blocked
Categories: Games, Sony

Apparently there’s some danger with Sony’s new PS3, set for release in November 2006 in North America but not until 2007 for Europe.

Having fun with Retrievr

Yazan: Candace | 18 October 2006 | Comments Off on Having fun with Retrievr
Categories: Flash, Web Applications

Some call it a time-waster. I think it’s fun. Retrievr made Slashdot today. With retrievr you can search the collection of images in flickr by drawing with your mouse in a little sketch pad, similar to MSpaint. Submit your drawing to the Retrivr search bunnies and you will receive a screen full of flickr photos […]

5 Things Feminism Has Done for Me

Yazan: Candace | 13 October 2006 | Comments Off on 5 Things Feminism Has Done for Me
Categories: Activism, Canadiana, Feminism

Things are looking pale for women in Canada. See this excerpt from http://www.statusreport.ca/, the site dedicated to reporting the latest news about funding cuts to Status of Women Canada. Beverley Oda, Minister of Heritage and Status of Women, and Prime Minister Stephen Harper, have taken drastic steps away from women’s equality. On September 25, 2006, […]

What my awesome kid did today

Yazan: Candace | 13 October 2006 | No Comments
Categories: Family, Happy, Life, Relationships

Between meeting his schoolbus, eating dinner and taking my daughter to aikido, my youngest son (5 years old) came up to me for a hug and noticed I was wearing the bead necklace/hairband he’d made me last week. He was so happy to see it on me – to know that I really and truly […]

Racism in the bathwater

Yazan: Candace | 12 October 2006 | No Comments
Categories: Bodies, Canadiana, Culture, Diversity, Life, Racism

Background: Canada funds two school systems: the public and the separate (Catholic) in both official languages, French and English. Incidentally, there are private Fundamentalist Christian schools, a Mennonite school, and an Islamic school in the local community that receive no government support. Parents whose children attend these schools are still required to pay taxes to […]

Lancet says girls are expendable

Yazan: Candace | 06 October 2006 | Comments Off on Lancet says girls are expendable
Categories: Bodies

In speaking about the new HPV vaccine: “The Lancet editorial says that ideally boys should also be immunised against the virus. But it says that, until more data on use of the vaccine in boys is available, EU states “should lead by making the vaccinations mandatory for all girls aged 11 to 12 years”. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/5411038.stm […]

Thinking about next year: Breast of Canada calendars

Yazan: Candace | 26 September 2006 | No Comments
Categories: Bodies, Canadiana, Culture, Happy

Sue Richards of The Calendar Girl Blog, My Menopause Blog, and The Breast of Canada Calendar is an amazing woman. I met her at BlogHer 2006 in San Jose but I’ve known of her for years. I have (somewhere in my house) the very first Breast of Canada calendar and framed on my bedroom wall, […]

Windows x64 is teh suckage

Yazan: Candace | 25 September 2006 | Comments Off on Windows x64 is teh suckage
Categories: Hellmares, Web Applications, Windows

I hate Windows x64. I wanted to try out something new, I had marvellous intentions. My computer had been stolen (along with every other thing in the house that had a cord) and I had the opportunity to get a legit copy of Windows via the insurance. This was August 2005. I was getting a […]

Gelatin in Becel??

Yazan: Candace | 24 September 2006 | No Comments
Categories: Food, Life

Since when is there gelatin in becel margarine? The kids like margarine on a bagel now and then – or on corn on the cob. A container lasts us a really long time so I don’t mind spending a bit more to get something with ingredients I can pronounce. I read labels today at the […]

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