Lately I’ve been doing some work on other people’s websites, hosted elsewhere. It’s a bit new to me how things are done these days, so forgive me if I show my age. Most would seem to be offering web-based administration systems (Cpanel, Plesk, that sor…
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cmkl: One down six to go
Today we launched one of the seven websites I need to relaunch this summer. There are still some rough patches, but it’s mostly there. I hope this will start a deluge of site launching. It’s not good timing for projects that need a lot of people’s coop…
Continue readingcmkl: So the latest version of WordPress now requires PHP 5.2
And CentOS is still offering only 5.1.6. Oh yes, I’ve read the reams of ‘your mileage may vary’ message board conversations about getting their version of 5.3 to work, but it all seems so bloody experimental.
Continue readingcmkl: It’s a mighty expensive swimming lesson
But it is working. Mallory was swimming with her head underwater today. Also doing bobs without a noodle. And swimming across the pool by herself. And swimming on her back – even getting her arms out of the water.
Continue readingcmkl: Have a non-oppressive Canada Day while acknowledging the country’s past as a colonialist enterprise built upon a stolen continent and our tremendous potential for social change exhale
As the parties rage on in the apartments across the street and the improv fireworks pop and boom seemingly right outside my sleeping child’s window, I must confess my ambivalence toward Canada Day.
Continue readingcmkl: Boy if I was trying to do something serious
Like, say, get media attention for a real issue, like say the flotilla to Gaza, the fight against the dismantling of Greece’s social programs, or even trying to get across town in under an hour, I’d be a might pissed right now. It seems the entire medi…
Continue readingcmkl: And back to school she goes, we think
Tomorrow Mallory will likely head back to school. She’s past the contagious period and has been sleeping well, unmedicated for two nights now. No oatmeal bath or lotion either. She hasn’t been scratching at all that I can see.
Continue readingcmkl: Social media vs email: your best activist tool is…
It’s not so clear to me. Numerically speaking, still email. But from the perspective of response rates, it’s not clear. It could still be email. Here’s what I mean:
Continue readingcmkl: You’d never know it to look at her face
…but I think Mallory is either getting off easy or dealing well with the chicken pox. Last night did not see the three hour wail fest, and I expect this night will not either. Some extra night wakings, but nothing we can’t handle.
Continue readingcmkl: And now I brace myself
If last night is any indication, we’re about 40 minutes off from the start of screaming. Mallory went down like a ton of bricks, half an hour ago, dosed withe Benadryl as she was. Irene put her to bed tonight and happily kept the Ibuprophen in reserve.
Continue readingcmkl: Chicken pox. Who’s happy now?
I have to confess when Irene and I first discovered Mallory had chicken pox yesterday morning, we were kind of happy. Like when you put a tick beside something relatively mundane but necessary on your to-do list like: ‘Get chicken pox for the kid. Chec…
Continue readingcmkl: Did the NDP fall into a trap?
I suppose the doyens of public opinion research will tell us the answers soon enough, but I’m wondering if, as Bob Rae claims, the NDP fell into a Tory-set trap by embarking on this filibuster.
Continue readingcmkl: Two hard drive failures
It’s a sign of something. Within days of each other the drive on Irene’s Macbook Air and one of the mechanisms in my desktop computer fail. One more spectacularly than the other. The Macbook Air drive I can at least see it when I boot from an external …
Continue readingcmkl: Being Zen about the pool part 2
Total breeze of an evening. Home in time to put together leftovers for dinner. Dinner done in time for a bath, and then out for a beer with a friend. But I noted something remarkable while bathing the child. She put her face in the water. Repeatedly. O…
Continue readingcmkl: The Canada Post lockout busting legislation explained
It all makes perfect sense to me now. At first I thought it strange that the Tory government was ordering its wholly-owned crown corporation and its Tory government-appointed president to open the doors and let CUPW back to work. After all, I would hav…
Continue readingcmkl: Being zen about the pool, part one
I came home today to find my kid and two of my neighbours’ three kids swimming in the pool. And the landscapers prepping the area where a stone path will be. The kids were enjoying the water. And the temperature had gotten all the way up to the low 20s…
Continue readingcmkl: I really need to remove some stress from my life
I have two websites to launch this week for work, one freelance project that needs some attention, one volunteer website that needs to launch by the end of this month, meanwhile at home we seem to have adopted this 30,000 litre tank of need also called…
Continue readingcmkl: Rights versus the economy
In uniondom we talk a lot about the ‘right to free collective bargaining’. I expect most of us realize the meaning of that phrase is lost on most people in the country and even on most amongst union members. If anyone asks me my professional opinion, I…
Continue readingcmkl: Mallory with a sparkler
We were at a Summer Solstice party at Facebook friend Sweet Rhubarb’s tonight. Jamie brought sparklers, glow sticks and marshmallows. (Susie will be happy to see I spelled that correctly the first time).
Continue readingcmkl: I’m not the only person who thinks this
Tim Harper, a Toronto Star columnist, has a good item this evening about the meaning of the Harper government’s moves to end two nation-wide strikes for no reason that would hitherto be considered legitimate.
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