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Semi-Update

I know I promised an update, but it’s been a very busy week for me.  Busy month, really.  And here it is, July already.  Crazy!

Proper update tomorrow.  I SWEAR!  I have a whole whack of interesting things coming up this week month.  I have an entire backlog of cool posts planned, and I cannot wait to get them out!  Just see what I have planned:

  • Conference in Calgary with Cisco
  • PC v. Mac debate: Yes, I’m a PC
  • My boy’s birthday! He turned 6 on Canada Day!
  • My novel(s), and what I have planned for them
  • A webseries I want to write/film some day
  • Creative Commons Licensing

I have a whole lot to say on each of these, and I can’t wait to get these posts out.  I’ll probably start with the birthday one tomorrow.  :)  My little man.  *sigh*  When did he get so big?!

Until then …

No Comments by sharon on July 3, 2010
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sharonangus.com is back! Woo!

Well, I didn’t win the lottery.  Boo-urns.  The jackpot for the LottoMax was $50+ million, but I kept forgetting to buy a ticket as I’m not a big lottery player.  My sister did buy a ticket, but only bought ONE!  *SIGH*  Then when I checked Twitter this morning, the CBC headlines said the jackpot would be split between a ticket here in Saskatchewan and one in Labrador.  I got excited for a second.  :P

But it looks like I’m going back to work on Monday.  *woe*

Anyhoot …

So, the site was down for a week and it looks like I lost a post or two.  Nothing groundbreaking or super awesome, so that’s cool.  I was mostly concerned about my Steampunk post, but that made it out alive, so I’m happy.  :)  I did lose my last Twitter backup, but I’m pretty sure I can do that one manually later today, so you may see two “Weekly Twitter spews” in a row for this week.  Just ignore them.  ;)

What happened was, I moved servers as my totally awesome host (and I’m dead serious about that, he’s totally AWESOMESAUCE) decided to close down his seller account, and move onto his friend’s hosting account.  And his new host agreed to take me on as well.  So now I have a new TOTALLY AWESOMESAUCE HOST.  <3  I am surrounded by AWESOMESAUCE and I can’t believe how fortunate I am in this regard.

So a huge thank you goes out to both Mark and Brian!  <3

Oh, but anyways, what happened with the site going down … that was TOTALLY MY FAULT!  lol  When they moved the servers, I ended up having to go to Calgary for a conference and wasn’t around to switch the DNS to the new servers.  And when I got back, I then had to head up north to Meadow Lake to teach a class for a day.  When I got back from there, I was totally brain dead and kept trying to log into the wrong place to do that.  DUR.  I felt really stupid.  When I finally did realize my mistake (after being corrected so sweetly by Mark lol), I forgot my password to my GoDaddy account.  Good times.

But obviously I have finally figured everything out, and things are now a-okay.  WHEW!  *kermit flail*  Yaaaaaaaay!

And hopefully, once I have recovered my last Twitter spew, and I’ve cleaned up my living room (it’s chaos up there!), I’ll do a proper post about my trip to Calgary because it was totally interesting in all sorts of ways as it was a conference about Cisco Telepresence and its role in modern education.  Oooooooh.  ;)

No Comments by sharon on June 26, 2010
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Bloggers Without Makeup

So today there is some meme thing going around called Bloggers Without Make-up Day. The idea is that while we as bloggers are honest with our lives, but not always so honest with our appearance. We are often familiar with not only the internet, but our computers as well and we can and do take advantage of that. well, that and old-fashioned make-up.

To better love ourselves, we as a blogship are making today special. So here is me:

No Comments by sharon on May 14, 2010
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Going Home

Well, folks, tonight is the night we leave for Calgary!  That’s right, this is the big weekend!  We’re off to the where the wild nerds roam!  I’ve been planning this for the past month and a half and it’s finally here: The Calgary Expo!  Woo!  I can’t wait!

I’m so excited.  We’re just packing up now.  *trembles*

I shall be live blogging the whole thing from Twitter and it will be updating here from there.  I don’t want to forget a single thing!  :D

NIMOY!  :D :D :D :D

No Comments by sharon on April 23, 2010
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It’s been a while, I know …

Life has gotten away on me, and I’ve been neglectful of my blog.  I know.

It’s been a chaotic few weeks (hell, a chaotic few days!), but hopefully I’ll be able to get back to blogging regularly by next week.  I have a special weekend planned for my family as we are attending the Calgary Expo!  It will be my first ever convention and we are all looking forward to it immensely.

I will have a full con report, of course, complete with pictures!

My first planned interview will have to wait until May as the person I had planned on interviewing has just purchased a house and is moving.  Not exactly the best time for an interview.  lol  Oh yes, I have great timing, don’t I?

In the mean time …

Apple pushed back the international release dates for the iPad due to “unexpected popularity in the United States.” What’s up with that?  And yes, that international release includes Canada.  Lame sauce.  So now we have to wait until late May to get our hands on it.  Not that I can afford one anymore thanks to the past few weeks.  (Long story.  I shall fill in later … or not.)  The new pre-purchase date has been listed as May 10th according to the Canadian Apple website.  Yay?  Just in time for my birthday, I suppose.  :P

Speaking of Apple … The internets are all a-flutter over the leaked prototype of their new iPhone.  Whether or not it’s the genuine article is up for debate, but whatever.  *handwave*  It’s all sort of like that whole “baby-bump” thing you see in gossip rags.  Gizmodo seems to have had the scoop, in either case.

I think Kris Abel had the best take on it when he said, “Celebrity gossip is designed to tear down the worship of that culture, perhaps in gadgets its the same for the worship of brands like Apple, Microsoft, or Google, but as someone who loves technology, I dislike a destructive focus when the point is to celebrate innovation and change.”

Whether or not this hurts the release of the latest iPhone remains to be seen as Apple has always been notorious for holding their cards close to the chest.  If it was a legitimate prototype, it may force design changes which may mean another delay for the new iPhone.

In other tech news, I’ve been following several official Cisco Twitter accounts and I have to say, they’re pretty interesting.  I started following out of curiosity at first, and then found them to be quite useful for my classes.  They’re proving to be very good resources as they link to some great articles about security and such which are coming in handy for those chapters in my lectures.

Anyway, I really should get back to work.  I have a lot to catch up on as this morning was a bit of a circus.  :/

1 Comment by sharon on April 20, 2010
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Possible new format …

So, remember a few posts back when I said my sister was aggravating because she forced to me to think about what I want out of this blog?  As in what sort of direction or ultimate goal I wanted for it.  I guess what she was really asking was, what is/are the central theme(s)?  And you know what?  I totally didn’t have an answer.

When I first started this thing, it was pretty much a place to just play with layouts, graphics, and codes.  Then, when I started to add content in the form of blog entries, it became a place to just post whatever rambling thought came across my mind that I thought may or may not interest someone.  But now …  Well, now that my sister has forced me to really think about it … I think I have a direction.  I think I can finally say I can refine the definition of my blog a little bit more.

I first started with thinking about what defines me as a person.  I looked at my little description I’ve been using here and there when sites ask for a bio:

I’m just your average Native American, half Plains Cree, half Mohawk, rez-livin’, single motherin’, IT instructin’, sci-fi lovin’ woman who just so happens to love knittin’, hockey and baseball.

Oh yeah, and I’m totally made of awesome.

So let’s break it down (after the jump):

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3 Comments by sharon on March 25, 2010
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kaitangus.com

I spent that last few days working on a small impromptu project: a website to help promote my sister’s music.

Remember how I said I have a lot of sisters?  Well, not the one who was aggravating me (although she can be quite aggravating at times), my baby sister Kait is a very talented and self-taught musician who is just starting down her path towards a career in music.  She’s currently living in San Francisco and been working hard on creating some new original material.

Currently she has 4 tracks, and when she posted YSI links on her Facebook page, I immediately downloaded them to check them out since I’d heard some of her previous work and really liked it.  Well, I was floored and it broke my heart to see her promoting her work from her personal FB profile with YouSendIt download links and a sad Myspace profile (where the YSI links  were blocked).

I couldn’t let her music be treated like that.  So I bought her a domain and am hosting here with me (my host is AWESOME! Thank you, Mark!), and set her up proper.  Well, as proper as I could.  Seeing as I don’t have any experience as a music promoter, nor as a web manager or whatever (just my own little bit of cyberspace), all I can hope is that it’s a better showcase for her music than her personal FB and stupid Myspace.

I even set her up properly on ReverbNation (hence the much cooler and complete track listing music widget in my sidebar) and got her a Facebook Fan Page.  :)  So, if you have accounts at either places, you can become a fan.  Links at are on the site.  Hopefully it will be enough to get her some proper gigs.

It’s all linked on her new site … and you can check it out here:

http://kaitangus.com/

She’s worth listening to!  And yes, I’m ridiculously proud of her!  ;)  She is, after all, my baby sister.

No Comments by sharon on March 3, 2010
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My sister is so aggravating …

No, not that one … the other one.  No, not her.  Not that one either.  Yeah, that one.  Damn, I have a lot of sisters.

Anyway, I was talking to my sister yesterday and she’s gone and forced to me to think about what I want out of this blog.  Like define it or something.  What is my goal, what is the intention, or overall point.  And I sort of just sat there and went, “Uhm … I don’t know.  It’s just something I like doing.  Just like everything else I do.”

So now I’m all angry at her for sort of taking a bit of the fun out of this, but at the same time, I see what she’s getting at.  I mean, it was never my intention to get a readership for this blog.  I just like playing with things, and this is one of the many things I like playing with: layouts/themes, widgets and plugins, integrating my other social networking stuff, etc.  It’s experimenting with things essentially.  It’s a hobby.  The content is almost an afterthought, an excuse for me to continue on doing this.

On the other hand, over the past few months, the content has taken on a life of its own.  It’s morphed into something almost … useful.  It’s become this exploration of not only just my life on the reserve, but also my life with technology on the reserve.  Also, my life as a woman in technology.  I suppose I could try and further define that, give it a name.  Then the tag line I’ve been using all this time would make more sense.  lol

Doesn’t make me any less aggravated with my sister.  lol  Darn her for making me think!  *sigh*  I need more coffee.

6 Comments by sharon on March 1, 2010
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New feature coming!

So, if you’ve been reading this blog for a while, you’d remember this idea I had AGES ago where I’d wanted to start an online magazine about Aboriginal women role models.  The problem with this is that I have so many personal projects going all the time (this blog, my knitting, my comic I’m trying to start up again, my kids’ projects, my job, etc.), I just haven’t had the time to develop it any further than a pipe dream.

BUT … I finally figured something out.  I can incorporate it here into my blog!  I mean, it’s already (sort of) well-established, I can write the interviews or articles without worrying editorial style, I can write them without deadlines, I don’t have to worry about staffing or anything like that, and I don’t have to worry about any other sort of filler articles.  I can just feature a woman I’d like interview every once in a while!  It’s perfect!  I’m hoping it will be a regular feature as I’ve been wanting to do this for so long now, I have a long list of women I want to interview and feature.

And guess what!  I already have an interview lined up!  :D  *shimmies*  I’m so excited!  I just need to figure out how I’m going to do this … Like I need to figure out how to record and post the podcast, which is I guess essentially what this will be.  Hmmm …

I think I’m going to need some coffee.

7 Comments by sharon on February 27, 2010
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I sense a theme …

Ugh, I wasted my morning trying to find the perfect theme to replace the other one which was all buggered up on me.  But to no avail.  So I have this one.  Once again, I’m with the brown colour.  Not sure why.  Perhaps it’s because I am.  har har har.

I’m going to keep looking though.  I’m hoping I won’t have to resort to designing my own theme because, to be completely honest, I suuuuuuuuuck at that sort of thing.  Blah.  I’m no webdesigner.  I dabble, but to call myself a webdesigner?  Ha!  It’s merely a hobby and nothing more.

I’d rather not have to resort to that though, so if anyone has any suggestions of a nice theme, leave a comment with a link.  I’d really appreciate it!

No Comments by sharon on February 25, 2010
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