Dec 21 2009

Accepted to University!

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Sorry that I haven’t been writing more often, school has been swamping me.  However, I thought it a good idea to lift my nose from the grindstone (hehehe) to say that I have been accepted to the Arthur Kroeger College of Public Affairs and Policy Management at Carleton University in Ottawa!  This was a tied first choice with the University of King’s College in Halifax.  Carleton won’t let me defer (I’m considering deferral so I don’t have to work during university) but said that I’d likely be accepted again.  UKC will let me defer one year.  Now the clock is ticking, Halifax!


Dec 3 2009

Visiting Microsoft Canada

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Me with my guest badge!

Me with my guest badge!

So for those of  you who don’t know or follow my twitter feed, my aunt is a IT Pro Advisor at Microsoft Canada.  You may also know that my opinion of Microsoft hasn’t been the highest (as expressed often in this blog).

The purpose of my visit was to ask successful people how they got to where they are in their field, which holds my interest.  The people were incredibly kind and interesting and really let me pick their brains. Continue reading


Jan 15 2009

Humanity is in Trouble.

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http://entertainment.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/01/15/158216

Summary:  Lady *somehow* buys an Ubuntu computer from Dell by accident (as is repeated throughout comments, this is impossible.  The website makes sure you know it’s not Windows on every page).  She then quits two semesters at technical college because she can’t work the computer.

And it’s not even like she has to configure it or install software or anything.  It’s already set up and working perfectly. Continue reading