Talk to the breasts
Okay, this is definitely the funniest thing that I’ve read in ages, and written by a lawyer, no less: Ordinarily, when someone starts staring at my breasts, I assume that I’ve spilled something. After all, the girls are getting on in years. There are plenty of newer models out on the market for the lads [...]
Women in Technology day
This Thursday is Women in Technology day at the CASCON conference in Markham. It’s a long haul up there from downtown, but I’ll likely find a way to get there as it sounds pretty interesting: The IBM Women’s Leadership Council, the Centers for Advanced Studies (CAS), and our university partners would like to invite you [...]
BlogHer goes business
A welcome addition to the BlogHer lineup for next year is BlogHer Business in New York on March 22-23. As I mentioned in my wrapup post about the recent BlogHer in San Jose, I don’t want to diss mommy bloggers and craft bloggers, I just don’t have much in common with them. Of course, I [...]
Feminist nightmares
Do you ever wake up from a nightmare about speaking in public where you’re naked and everyone is laughing at you? I understand that’s a popular one, but not one that visits me: I’m pretty comfortable with public speaking. However, I woke a few weeks ago from the feminist version of that nightmare: in my [...]
Being a feminist
I was browsing on babble.ca yesterday and was served up a Google ad for Being Jane’s catalog of feminist T-shirts. Usually I just ignore the ads, but this one caught my eye, and since I use Adsense on some of my other sites, I figured that I should be drinking the Kool-Aid too, so I [...]
The last word on Bell
My actions over Bell Sympatico’s ad campaign, documented in my rants here and here, finally bore fruit a few weeks ago, thanks to the nice people at Advertising Standards Canada. Apparently, their complaints to Bell actually were heard, as opposed to those of us minions who just received the standard form letter from Bell in [...]
Whither the rant?
The day after my last posting, and after several more emails to other Bell departments, I awoke, looked outside and saw a Bell Sympatico truck. Instant paranoia swept me: were they going to punish me by cutting off my internet access? I laughed it off, until two days later when Damir’s Sympatico access died… After [...]
A Rant on Bell Sympatico
I have to feel passionate about something before I write, and lately I’ve been pretty unmotivated to do much of anything, including working and writing. Today, however, my passion came to a boil when I picked up my mail and there was a flyer from Bell Sympatico that I find hugely offensive. The flyer is [...]
