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Locavore Me

Yazan: Candace | 07 July 2008 | 4 Comments
Categories: Activism, Bodies, Canadiana, Culture, Ecofeminism, Environment, Food, Gardening, Happy, Third Wave, Women's Studies

Coming up on Sunday July 27, 2008 at John R. Park Homestead is a new (hopefully annual) event called the Lakeside Locavore Lunch. From the Essex Region Conservation Authority calendar: The Lakeside Locavore Lunch is a new special event taking place at the John R. Park Homestead Conservation Area on Sunday, July 27th from noon […]

Upload to Flickr via Digikam

Yazan: Candace | 18 June 2008 | No Comments
Categories: Flickr, Linux, Web Applications

I know there are a few digiKam users reading this blog. (Rob, this post is for you.) There’s no excuse now for not putting more photos up on your flickr accounts! Look under File > Export > Export to Flickr in the digiKam main window. It’s easy-peasy to upload a single photo or photos in […]

Contact Your MP or Lose Your Rights: Bill C-61 – The Canadian Copyright Act

Yazan: Candace | 13 June 2008 | No Comments
Categories: Activism, Canadiana, Culture, Cyberspace, Technology

Bad news in Canada: Yesterday Bill C-61 was tabled and it doesn’t bode well. Among the rights at risk: time shifting (no, not sci-fi time travel but recording television now to view later transferring media (music, video, etc) you own to a portable music/video device that you own (like an iPod) format shifting — transferring […]

Grit in my Hair

Yazan: Candace | 27 May 2008 | 3 Comments
Categories: Academia, Environment, History, Life, School

I’m spending a lot of time on campus lately. I have a wonderful workspace in the History Research Lab and I’ve made it cozy with some comics, postcards, and other decorations. I also leave articles I’m reading on the desk so that I have to come back to continue working. Since I bought a parking […]

Email from Google about New Terms for Adsense

Yazan: Candace | 13 May 2008 | No Comments
Categories: Google, Hellmares

A group of Adsense publishers received emails yesterday requiring that they log into the Adsense panel and accept the new terms and conditions (or else!). Turns out it wasn’t a phishing attack and there are no new terms. The message was sent by mistake to users that have already accepted. Google is sorry. The terms […]

What’s in a Pinnacle?

Yazan: Candace | 08 May 2008 | No Comments
Categories: Environment, School

Irony on campus today at he University of Windsor: on one hand, the Environmental Pinnacle. on the other hand, pesticide signage across the lawn and the smell of freshly sprayed poison filling the air.

Random Happy and Sad Things

Yazan: Candace | 07 May 2008 | No Comments
Categories: Gardening, Happy, Life, School

It’s time for a check-in and one of those posts that I can look back on to gauge state-of-mind when one day in the future I reflect back to this time and wonder what in the world I was thinking. so: Some things that made me happy today: spreading dirt for a garden in the […]

It’s Coming Together

Yazan: Candace | 30 April 2008 | No Comments
Categories: Academia, Culture, Family, Happy, Life

There’s nothing quite like the week after a semester finishes. I’ve been so productive the last few days. Rob and I have put doors up on two kids’ bedrooms so that leaves only one more. I just finished installing the doorknob on the second one and sawing off the shims. My taxes are done and […]

A Strategy for Writing a Long Paper

Yazan: Candace | 23 April 2008 | 1 Comment
Categories: Academia, School

I’ve got a hideous paper due Friday and yesterday I realized (for reasons that I won’t go into now) that my topic is all wrong. Unfortunately, there’s no time to start over so I’ll have to make do with the research I’ve been doing all semester and salvage what I can when this semester is […]

zomg writing is hard (or: Beyond Footnotes)

Yazan: Candace | 22 April 2008 | 3 Comments
Categories: Academia, School, Technology

Forget asking how did people write before word processors — how did people ever write without hyperlinking? I’m going crazy trying to write my final essay of the semester without hyperlinks. Aaarrrggghhhh!!! It would be so sweet to go beyond footnotes, to be able to include a link to a photo or a text or […]

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