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My Family Tree
A couple times now I’ve been tasked with creating a family tree for family reunions. Finally I decided to invest in some software and merge all the information I had or could find easily into one big...
View ArticleBlogging, Vancouver, and Google Oh My!
Since I upgraded to iOS 5 or shortly after when some of my main apps were upgraded I lost the ability to email links, tweets, and stories in multiple applications, this along with changes to the...
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Dougan Family Tree
I haven’t done that much more work on my family’s genealogy, but one of the books in our possession is a self published volume entitled “The Dougans of Cobble Hill”. This was produced by Nathan...
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What Rick Santorum can teach you about online reputation management
Last night while lying in bed I finally broke down and read an article on Rick Santorum. The article was in the Globe and Mail and was entitled “Rick Santorum: A Republican menace or a messiah?” I had...
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My mom finally buys a new car
She has been talking about buying one for many months. They showed her the exact car she ended up buying in September. It took a long time for my mom to realize just how much money she would need to...
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Awareness VS Revenge: An Illustrative Example
As someone who has put up with a lot over the last few years and believes in generally treating people decently online and offline, I have to advocate trying to keep a positive attitude and walking...
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Urban farming becoming more main stream
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...
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Joined Ancestry.ca
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...
View Article#RipAmandaTodd
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...
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The Best Jobseeker Advice
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...
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Still unboxing my life
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...
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W2 Media Cafe is finally open
I didn’t bring my cord to upload my pictures from my iPhone but if you hustle down you still might be able to get free coffee! Apparently I was the first person to order a Cafe Mocha from the barista...
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Last piece of family original homestead for sale
My family has lived on Vancouver Island a long time, before Canada, before British Columbia, Vancouver Island was a colony in the British Empire. My family came from Ireland and Scotland mostly, some...
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Been Gardening
Today was the first decent day in the last few so we got up early and finished our overhaul of the shrubberies near the front door of my mom’s house. I’d started on it last week, but I guess I got lazy...
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