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One of my colleagues sent me a link to a cool site called “Educating Harper.” It’s a site run by Dr. Susan Boyd, from the University of Victoria and a Vancouver-based group called Beyond Prohibition Coalition. The site: comes in response to Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s new legislation that will see mandatory minimum sentences for […]
I noticed this when I logged into my UBC email the other day: It was accompanied by an announcement that the amount of storage UBC student1 email accounts were increased from 30 MB to a whopping 120 MB. That’s quadruple the space! Wow, whatever would one do with all that space? I mean, everyone knows […]
As you know, I’m a fan of the Egg McMaster1. I often buy them for breakfast at the caf at work2 when I’m too lazy busy to make breakfast. And, being vegetarian, I always get mine with no meat, but a slice of tomato instead.This week, however, held a surprise for me. The caf changed […]
So I finally got my UBC Faculty card. Isn’t it pretty? Are you thinking, “Hmmm, that photo looks familiar?” Rather than going into the Bookstore and having them take a mugshot for the card, which invariably turns out terribly, I selected the option where you can upload a photo that you already have. There are […]
While searching through Flickr for some photos with Creative Commons licenses to use in an online course I’m developing, I came across this photo, which totally cracked me up. (Hint: that’s a picture of Ivan Pavlov): Photo by Naufragio I also noticed during this search that a hell of a lot of people have named […]
When I got home today, my landlord informed me that the furnace had broken down today and so he’d had to call a furnace repair person to come and fix it. Since I live in the basement, the furnace lives in my kitchen and that meant that they had to enter my apartment to fix […]
Photo from Flickrby The Rocketeer4 The radio station that brought us the videoclip of which we dare not speak is now having a trivia contest. Well, they always have a trivia contest in the mornings1, but now they are having a special one throughout the day2. The idea is that the contestant competes against one […]
It’s that time of year again… Northern Voice is just around the corner. Remember that blogging conference I went to last year? Ya, that was Northern Voice. And I’m volunteering again this year because I’m too cheap to pay the $60 registration fee volunteering is good for the soul. Word on the street is that […]
“Why wearing stilettos could boost your sex life” in the Daily Mail news
Why does the default on cash registers seem to be “print receipt,” even though most people don’t want one? Cash registers everywhere I go seem to just automatically spit out a receipt. I see it when I buy something at the caf at work or at the Tim Horton’s or the Starbucks or… well, you […]