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January, 2009:

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How do you keep track of business cards? # I am looking for a mobile WordPress plugin to optimize my site for mobile devices. Any advice? # I lost my new gloves today. I am the only one in the office. I walked in with 2 gloves and then sometime over the night, one walked [...]

Core Neighborhood Youth Cooperative

I am not sure that many of you in Saskatoon know about the CNYC. The Core Neighbourhood Youth Co-op is an alternative high school program for at risk youth.  Youth are able to access high school credits and learn life and employment skills in a compassionate environment.  CNYC has continuous intake throughout the year which [...]

It’s Monday Morning

The weekend that was: It was okay.  I was called into work a couple of times which isn’t a lot of fun but we got to see Tamara’s new baby, Chela on the weekend and we celebrated Lee’s 27th birthday yesterday.  Mark spent all weekend challenging anyone and everyone to a snow ball fight so [...]

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Try selling season tickets and sponsorships in this environment. # There are rumors of a couple baseball teams hurting badly and many NHL franchises. Of course this was BEFORE the recession hurt them. # So which will be the first major North American sports team to miss payroll in this current environment? # Reading Mountain [...]

links for 2009-01-18

Burden of homeownership spread unequally When it comes to homeownership, Hispanics in New Jersey, single parents in California and senior citizens in Rhode Island all have something in common: More than a third have an unaffordable mortgage. Inequality in America has traditionally followed familiar patterns of race, age and education. Those long-standing gaps have been [...]

Gaza

During the Israeli attack on Hamas, I was sent a variety of links, Facebook groups, e-mails, and people to write so I could show my solidarity with the people of Gaza.  For some very complicated reasons, I decided to ignore all of them, even though they came from close friends.  The main reason is that [...]

How Barack Obama Won

Chuck Todd & Sheldon Gawiser have a new book out and it is pretty good.  MSNBC has an extended excerpt from the book The 2008 election got started early, before the first candidate, Tom Vilsack, officially announced in November 2006. The campaign began in 1999, when word first leaked that then first lady Hillary Clinton [...]

“First”

Missing

This story is disturbing as I know Archie as I worked for him (he was a pretty good cook) and he lived at the Centre for several months. Saskatoon police are looking for a man who has been missing for more than a month. Archibald Manyika, 33, is originally from Zimbabwe and has been living [...]

Domestic Assault

As I was coming home last night, I noticed numerous police cars a couple blocks over and there was police tape everywhere around the church a block north in the 1500 block 1700 block of Avenue D.  Apparently a six year old girl was found with life threatening injuries and was shot during a domestic [...]

Change We Believe In

Jason Kottke redesigned his blog.  Where did the yellow go?

Busted plug-in

My blog isn’t working that well right now.  I assume it is a misbehaving caching plug-in.  Practically it means that my homepage isn’t updating right as well.  Comments aren’t working either which seems to be an overly aggressive Akismet plug-in which giving me a lot of false positives, even for long time commenter’s.   Even if [...]

Mountain biking is for illiterate losers

The other night while in London Drugs, I tried to find a copy of Mountain Bike Action.  No luck, just road racing magazines.  Today at Indigo, there were rugby magazines, lacrosse magazines, bass fishing magazines but not a single mountain biking magazine.  I was about to give up but then at McNally Robinson had a [...]

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The Cleveland Cav’s home yellow uniforms look horrible and look like a discount store’s version of the Laker’s uniforms. # If Circuit City is liquidating, what happens to The Source by Circuit City in Canada? #

10 Years of Next-Wave

Stephen Shields has an excellent look back at the emerging church in the current edition of Next-Wave.  Some of the interviews that made up the article can be found here and here.