Archive for the 'Canada' Category
Thursday, May 9th, 2013
I’m back in Vancouver at least temporarily and because my new roommate has basically no furniture mine finally comes out of storage. If you own as many books, CDs, DVDs and VHSs as me you need to assemble a lot of Ikea furniture in your life. I don’t have room for everything so much will [...]
Posted in Depression, Literature, Online Social Networks, Vancouver |
and Tagged: books, CDs, DVDs, IKEA, journals, Mo Yan, quotation, Samuel Pypes, shelves, social media, Twitter, VHSs |
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Tuesday, January 22nd, 2013
Source: visual.ly via Career Enlightenment on Pinterest During my lengthy job search (I’m available) I’ve written and collected a lot of blog postings. Despite experts continuing to insist, you can blog your way to a new job, I’m not convinced that will work for everyone. So I’ve collected together in one place the best advice [...]
Posted in Blogging, Online Social Networks, Self Marketing, Vancouver |
and Tagged: advice, agents, blog, career, cover letter, expert, Facebook, feeds, insight, inspiration, interview, job, job search, jobseeker, LinkedIn, motivation, online, personal brand, personal branding, quotation, reputation, resume, RSS, social media, Twitter |
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Friday, October 19th, 2012
Another teen suicide has become a lead news story, a hashtag, an Internet meme… It also hit a little close to home. I know what it is like to be ridiculed and ostracized by classmates, I know what it is like to tell your story online only to be mocked by random Internet handles, I’m all [...]
Posted in BC, Canada, Depression, Online Social Networks, Vancouver |
and Tagged: Amanda Todd, CreepShots, Facebook, hashtag, Justin Bieber, meme, Reddit, Rick Rypien, suicide |
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Wednesday, August 29th, 2012
My genealogical research continues, with my grandmother taking an interest and offering to fund it, so I broke down and joined Ancestry.ca at least for now. I had already consumed most of the documents in my immediate families possession, read books, searched the Internet, asked questions, and put everything I knew into Reunion 9. This [...]
Posted in BC, Canada, Genealogy, Internet |
and Tagged: ancestors, Anderson, census, County Antrim, County Derry, Cowichan, Dougan, Ireland, Kine, Lanarkshire, MacKay, McKay, Muschamp, Nanaimo, Northumberland, relatives, Rogart, Scotland, Sutherland, UK, Vancouver Island, Victoria |
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Tuesday, May 15th, 2012
Once again SOLEfood was in the Vancouver Sun as they announced they were building a new larger urban farm in a much more visible location than Hastings and Hawkes. This is of course good news to see on Twitter and main stream media. I was involved during the gestation period of the project that became [...]
Posted in BC, DTES, Vancouver |
and Tagged: BC Business, media, SOLEfood, Tony Wanless, Twitter, urban agriculture, urban farm, Vancouver Sun |
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