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Monthly Archives January 2015

#JeSuisCharlie (And Some Tangents About Language, The Nature of Offense and the Unintended Consequences of Trigger Warnings)

Trigger Warning: This essay contains ideas you might not agree with. You’ve probably heard about the terrorist criminal attack today in Paris that targeted journalists and cartoonists with a satirical newspaper, Charlie Hebdo. Instead of trying to write an essay to capture my thoughts (since The Onion did a pretty good job on that front already), I’ll […]

Posted 07 January 2015 § Censorship § News § Politics § PopCulture § Wisdom ‡ Comments (2) ° Tagged: , , ,

Some Days You Have Nothing To Blog About…

…and that’s okay! 😉

Posted 06 January 2015 § Randomness ‡ Comments (0) °

Music Monday – Honoring Our Parents: The Legacy of Residential Schools

There’s a popular story making the rounds on social media to help people in positions of privilege understand exactly what the concept means and what it affords them. The essence of the story is that a high school teacher sets a recycling bin at the front of the room then gives his students wads of paper […]

Posted 05 January 2015 § Canada § Library § MemoryLane § MusicMonday § Saskatchewan § Video § Wisdom § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Mark Zuckerberg Starts Online Book Club – Is He The Internet Generation’s Oprah?

Facebook founder, Mark Zuckerberg, has started an online book club to help facilitate his annual resolution.  Other years, he’s pledged to do everything from study Mandarin to wearing a tie every day to meeting one new person (who doesn’t work for Facebook) each day.  This year, he’s aiming to read at least one book every […]

Posted 04 January 2015 § Internet § PopCulture § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Saturday Snap – I Should Probably Go Help Her…

Sasha’s figured out how to get off her change table (well, the first half of the process – she still hasn’t managed to get all the way down!) I suspect it’ll only be a matter of time until she manages to scramble over the rail of her crib and come see us some night! 😉

Posted 03 January 2015 § Baby § Humour § Photo § Sasha § SaturdaySnap ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Friday Fun Link – New Copyright Laws Come Into Effect Today (On An Unrelated Note, Here’s Some Info On How To Torrent Without Your ISP Being Able to Identify You)

A new law comes into effect today which requires ISPs to forward letters to their customers that media companies suspect of pirating movies, music and other digital content via IP addresses connected to those files. On a completely unrelated note, here’s a thread on Reddit about ways that people can torrent files without your ISP knowing […]

Posted 02 January 2015 § Canada § FridayFunLink § Humour § PopCulture § Technology ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Happy! New! Year!

How often can Throwback Thursday be a clip from the day before and also last year? That’s why my dad’s favourite joke every New Year’s Eve is some variation of “See you next year!” 😉 Here’s Pace and his cousins partying it up last night year…

Posted 01 January 2015 § Family § MemoryLane § Photo § ThrowbackThursday ‡ Comments (1) °