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This one’s for Betsy …

You know who you are.  ;)

I can’t believe it’s been … wow.  Something like 7 weeks straight of just Twitter spew entries.  Ugh.  Sorry about that.  It’s been a busy summer.  We went to 3 powwows, ziplining, my sister and her boyfriend moved from California to Portland to Saskatoon, my other sister moved from Calgary to Saskatoon, my other sister hurt her ankle and is now on medical, my cousin had her baby, my niece had HER baby, and my kids are back in school as of today.

Oh yes, and I’m back teaching again this week.  *sigh*

Oh AND my computer’s HDD up and died on me, so I’m without a computer at home.  WOE!  As soon as I get some downtime, I’ll see if I can reformat and salvage it.  Bleh.

Hopefully, I’ll have time later for a proper update.  In the meantime, if you haven’t already, you can catch up via the Twitter feeds.  :P

No Comments by sharon on August 26, 2010
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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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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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Happy St. Patrick’s Day

In honour of St. Patrick’s Day, I’m going to share an email that my favourite Irishman sent to me today:

Bill Gates recently gave a speech at a High School about 11 things they did not and will not learn in school. He talks about how feel-good, politically correct teachings created a generation of kids with no concept of reality and how this concept set them up for failure in the real world.

Rule 1: Life is not fair – get used to it!

Rule 2 : The world won’t care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about yourself.

Rule 3 : You will NOT make $60,000 a year right out of high school. You won’t be a vice-president with a car phone until you earn both.

Rule 4 : If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss.

Rule 5 : Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your Grandparents had a different word for burger flipping: they called it opportunity.

Rule 6: If you mess up, it’s not your parents’ fault, so don’t whine about your mistakes, ‘learn from them’..

Rule 7: Before you were born, your parents weren’t as boring as they are now. They got that way from paying your bills, cleaning your clothes and listening to you talk about how cool you thought you were. So before you save the rain forest from the parasites of your parent’s generation, try delousing the closet in your own room.

Rule 8: Your school may have done away with winners and losers, but life HAS NOT. In some schools, they have abolished failing grades and they’ll give you as MANY TIMES as you want to get the right answer. This doesn’t bear the slightest resemblance to ANYTHING in real life.

Rule 9: Life is not divided into semesters. You don’t get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you FIND YOURSELF. Do that on your own time.

Rule 10: Television is NOT real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.

Rule 11: Be nice to nerds. Chances are you’ll end up working for one.

And yes, my favourite Irishman is Mark, my awesome host.  :)  Thanks, Mark!

I think these are really great lessons we all need to learn.  Also, I think it was especially important to point out that this must have been really awesome because Mark’s an Apple guy.  lol

No Comments by sharon on March 17, 2010
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Busy weekend ahead …

This weekend looks to be terribly busy for my little family.  My sister and I are taking badminton training in Saskatoon so we can be certified as coaches or something.  It’s so we can be more involved in the decision making for our team as we’re co-managers for the combined Thunderchild/Onion Lake team.  And we’re helping to manage the Thunderchild side of the team, including all four age groups for both boys and girls.

And yes, we took this on because my daughter wanted to try out for badminton and then subsequently made the team.  *sigh*

I’m sort of hoping to squeeze in a visit with an old friend or two.  We’ll see.  And maybe a movie with my kids.

I’m still trying to come up with questions for my interview, and my subject is busy with her stuff, so I have to schedule something still.  Oh life, why must you be so busy?!

Let’s all hope next week is a bit slower.

No Comments by sharon on March 5, 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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