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Not a mommyblogger, not a Jane

Yazan: Candace | 01 August 2006 | No Comments
Categories: Blogging, Blogher, Culture, Diversity, Family, Feminism, Life, Technology

I’m on my way home from BlogHer 2006 and realizing that there are a lot of things I am not. Mostly today I know I’m not a mommyblogger. Mommy/parent blogging does have incredible potential to support new parents in what can be overwhelming isolation and a shocking discovery that babies are not all crisp cotton, […]

Getting Ready for BlogHer 2006

Yazan: Candace | 24 July 2006 | No Comments
Categories: Blogher, Happy, Life, Third Wave

BlogHer begins in 4 days. Here are some of the things I’ve been doing to get ready (in no particular order): Choose sessions! (Day One) here and (Day Two) here. So many things look interesting and I’m not sure how I’ll manage to be in more than one place at a time. I’m really hoping […]

To the Death: A Historical Snapshot of Feminists Who Took it to the Extreme

Yazan: Candace | 23 July 2006 | No Comments
Categories: Bodies, Culture, Family, Feminism, Feminist Theory, History, Sexism, Women's Studies

Margaret Sanger. Ethyl Byrne. Genora Johnson Dollinger. There are women who have dedicated their lives – even risked their lives – for the cause of the women’s movement. Publishing, speaking publicly, and hunger strikes are some of the ways that feminists have placed the greater good of many before their own needs. In the excerpt […]

Google Fight!

Yazan: Candace | 25 June 2006 | Comments Off on Google Fight!
Categories: Google, Organizing, Web Applications

4110 Click image for larger size. Via Beth’s Blog, Google Fight is a tool to help you decide just how to tag your information. It’s also fun for seeing which term gets more results from Google. Like God or Satan. There’s also a sweet animation before you get the results. Try it out – another […]

Tired and old

Yazan: Candace | 24 June 2006 | No Comments
Categories: Aging, Bodies, Life

I’m so tired. Again. I’ve spent the past 12 hours marking papers online. I’m sure my eyes are going to bug out if I sit here any longer. 28 done, 110 to go. At this rate I’ll be done sometime Thursday. I’m too tired to play WoW, too tired to clean or do dishes. Too […]

I [heart] Opera

Yazan: Candace | 23 June 2006 | Comments Off on I [heart] Opera
Categories: Opera, Pandora, Web Applications

You know those times when you know you really should try something, that friends are using it and say it’s good but for one reason or another you just can’t get around to it? I mean, what you have is good enough – really good even, so what else could be this good?

Music from Pandora

Yazan: Candace | 22 June 2006 | Comments Off on Music from Pandora
Categories: Music, Web Applications

Update: Opera 9 has a widget for Pandora. I’ve got it set to always on top and stuck it in the corner of my secondary monitor. I’ll keep it there for now while I’m refreshing my knowledge of artist names and song titles. Jeff told Rob, and Rob told me to try out Pandora’s new […]

More on Bookmarks

Yazan: Candace | 20 June 2006 | Comments Off on More on Bookmarks
Categories: Organizing, Web Applications, Yahoo

marshallkirkpatrick’s blog post on NetSquared yesterday is a perfect find for those hunting for a bookmarks manager: “Tips on choosing a social bookmarking tool” starts with del.icio.us (owned by Yahoo now – did you know?), and includes Furl, Ma.gnolia and MarkaBoo. I started with del.icio.us yesterday, imported my bookmarks from Firefox, took one look at […]

Syncing Firefox with Google

Yazan: Candace | 19 June 2006 | Comments Off on Syncing Firefox with Google
Categories: Google, Mozilla, Web Applications

Anyone tried this yet? Google’s come out with a sync for Firefox settings, including bookmarks, history, persistent cookies, and saved passwords. It claims to slow the start time of Firefox – and of course Google gets to know more about me because you have to have a google account to play.

Calendar Apps

Yazan: Candace | 18 June 2006 | Comments Off on Calendar Apps
Categories: Calendars, Google, Mozilla, Web Applications, Yahoo

I’m looking for a nice, useful and usable web-based calendar-organizer application for organizing my ever increasing crazy life. I’m already a happy Mozilla user of Firefox and Thuderbird so checked to see what the Mozilla team had for me. It turns out, not much. Lightning and Sunbird, while they have nice names, are still too […]

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