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  • Educating Harper

    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 […]

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    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 […]

  • Today, I’m bitching about egg sandwiches.

    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 […]

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    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 […]

  • I can haz Flickr photoz?

    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 […]

  • It’s a good thing I have nice underwear

    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 […]

  • N.V.

    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 […]

  • What’s Up With Receipts?

    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 […]

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