Archive for the 'Technology' Category

Screen-free? No thanks

Yazan: cnast | 17 January 2013 | No Comments
Categories: Activism, Cell phones, Happy, Technology

I’m surprised at how angry screen-free day makes me. I’m quite happy living in the present, thank you very much. You don’t see people advocating for penicillin- or insulin-free days, or indoor-plumbing-free days, or the removal of mass transit, or other scientific advances that have made lives more accessible or more enjoyable for us. Why […]

I’m on github

Yazan: Candace | 19 May 2012 | No Comments
Categories: code, Programming, School, Technology, Tools

I joined github and my first repository is out there, ready for action. I joined github because although I’ve been writing code since high school, there’s precious little of it to be found. Joining github has given me a place to archive, motivation to create, and an opportunity to participate in a culture of sharing. […]

Robo-Sam wants you to guess the number

Yazan: Candace | 11 March 2011 | 1 Comment
Categories: code, Family, Kids, Programming, Technology

As I’ve mentioned before, I’ve been spending Friday evenings programming with my 10-year-old, while his older sibling practices with his soccer team. We started out with python, did some work with Google Fusion Tables, and last week and this week again we’re back to Python. Someone at a recent THATcamp shared a link to Invent […]

City of Windsor’s Open Data: Map of Libraries, Arenas, Community Centres & Heritage Sites

Yazan: Candace | 20 February 2011 | 1 Comment
Categories: Activism, code, Google, Maps, OpenData, Technology, Uncategorized

This map uses open data from the City of Windsor Open Data Catalogue. If you’re interested in the process used to make this map I’ve included step-by-steps at the bottom of the page. Drag and zoom to explore. Key to icons: Large red = Community Centres Large purple = Libraries Large blue = Arenas Small […]

UBB, grandfathering, and monopolies

Yazan: Candace | 19 February 2011 | No Comments
Categories: Activism, Canadiana, Culture, Cyberspace, Technology

I’ve been a Teksavvy customer for a looooong time. I came late to the internets ~ 2001 or so and I started out with those free discs from the post office. I moved up to NetZero and got my netz five minutes at a time – as long as I continuously clicked on ads. I […]

Augmented Reality at THATcamp Bay Area

Yazan: Candace | 10 November 2010 | No Comments
Categories: Conferences, Gadgets, Technology, Tools

The best session I went to all weekend was Gene Becker’s Augmented Reality 4 Poets. It was exactly what I’d hoped for in a Bootcamp: intriguing, informative, hands-on, and fun. Gene was very helpful and took his time going through what we needed to know to author our first AR using Layar and Hoppala. He […]

ProfHacker OpenSearch Plugin

Yazan: Candace | 06 April 2010 | 2 Comments
Categories: Academia, code, Happy, Humanities Computing, Mozilla, Technology, Tools, Web Applications

I’ve been a regular reader of ProfHacker since its launch. The posts (tips and tutorials for higher ed), are helpful – and usually timely. Just as I’m thinking about or needing something, a post turns up providing useful tips, often with links to more info. However, the mass of bookmarks I’ve accumulated is losing its […]

SSHRCing

Yazan: Candace | 04 November 2008 | 7 Comments
Categories: Academia, Bodies, Canadiana, Culture, Cyberspace, Feminism, Feminist Theory, Life, Research, School, Sexism, Technology, Women's Studies

I’m working on a sshrc funding proposal. For those who aren’t familiar, funding from the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canad makes the difference between attending and not attending graduate school. I’ve decided to pursue the PhD and working on the proposal is both exciting and frustrating. I’m working with vague ideas about […]

Social Networking Hilarity

Yazan: Candace | 15 October 2008 | 2 Comments
Categories: Blogging, Life, Technology

There’s going to be another Windsor blogger meetup on Tuesday October 21, 2008 at Taloola Cafe @ 7pm-ish. In the process of spreading the word I realized that I was facebooking about the wiki for our meetup about blogging. Is that somehow redundant?

Elizabeth May on the Air!

Yazan: Candace | 11 September 2008 | No Comments
Categories: Activism, Canadiana, Ecofeminism, Feminism, Happy, Life, Sexism, Technology, Third Wave

I just got an email from the Greens saying that Elizabeth May will be part of the televised national debates this election: Dear Green Party Supporter, I am writing to thank you, from the bottom of my heart, for supporting my campaign to be included in the televised leaders’ debates. Because of you and countless […]

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