Cloud computing is the use of internet-based services to support business processes; it means having all, or most, of what you need to run your business available online. Examples of cloud computing most people are familiar with are Gmail and Google Docs. You can access these services from anywhere with an internet connection and your data is always there. Having your business ‘in the cloud’ in the next step up from having a Google-based business email address. However, before making the decision to move your business to the cloud, make sure you weigh the below pros and cons of …
Lix Lopez, one of the cooks at this year’s Joy of Feeding, is also a leader of the Maya in Exile Garden Project at the UBC Farm. He will be sharing Chaan (corn tamalitos with beans) on June 10th.
The UBC Farm is pleased be hosting the second annual Joy of Feeding on Sunday, June 10th! Celebrate and enjoy comfort foods created and cooked from …
Removing a proactive disclosure requirement for the BC Ferry Commissioner is a puzzling step from a minister and government who say they believe in open government, said Vincent Gogolek, the executive director of the Freedom of Information and Privacy Association. Read more …
Stretch, yawn, make a cup of strong coffee, find a comfy spot, and choose a good book. Sounds like a dream morning, right? Well, it is even more of a dream when the book is full of pages from you blog! Yes, it’s true. I had always dreamed of creating a book. A few weeks ago I read about a company, Feed Fabrik http://www.feedfabrik.com/, who will print your blog pages for you and “manufacture” a book out of it. It was easy but not cheap! I could only afford one copy! I had quite a few pages…….
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“Five in the noggin?” Joaquin Amador Serrapio channels John Gibson
Barack Obama has received more death threats than any other president in history. The radical right has been inflaming the hateful discourse, especially in the rightosphere, against the first African American president. It’s no wonder then that some of the followers of the right wing act out and amplify – at least in words on
Outrageous spending on superjails to privatize prisons, $25 billion dollar
fighter jets, double the costs with 2 sets of books, Libya War spending 6x the
estimates they gave, Military contracts for weapons which are double the
estimates, they have all this money for security contracts yet and full federal
budget cuts are being kept secret until 2013, right now there’s cuts to
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I’m happy to be taking part in a virtual book tour for Handmade Garden Projects, a new book from Timber Press and author Lorene Edwards Forkner.
I had the opportunity to meet Lorene and tour her wonderful Seattle garden last summer, and I was thrilled to see many snippets of Lorene’s very personal and whimsical garden appear in the pages of Handmade Garden Projects.
Lorene’s garden isn’t perfect—and I’d argue that any garden that can be described as such is therefore disqualified, anyway—but it has HEART. It’s full …
This week we’re headed back to Steveston, BC. Steveston is a commercial harbour filled with classic work boats.
Today’s boat is named the Iron Maiden. When I originally took the picture, I was attracted to the classic fishing boat style, and the clean looking blue and white paint job. Then I did a little research online and she became even more interesting.
The CFV: Iron Maiden is a fishing boat. CFV stands for a registered Canadian Fishing Vessel. The Iron Maiden is owned and operated by Iron Maiden Seafoods, a third generation commercial fishing family of Sooke, BC. They …
This caterpillar decided to hang out on one of our windows, which must have been a request to be photographed.
(From Gabriolan.ca.)
The Gabriola Museum opens for the season this weekend, on Saturday, May 19th. (10 am to 3pm.) Their events page introduces the new exhibit:
More Than Just Clay and Mortar: The story of the Gabriola Brickyard and the workers and their families
For more than five decades until the early 1950s, the Gabriola Brickyard was the biggest industry on the island. Millions of bricks were manufactured and exported annually to Vancouver, Victoria and New Westminster where they were mortared into roads and buildings, may of which still stand today.
But the Brickyard was more than just shale and clay. …
I doubt Thomas Mulcair’s comments about ‘western’ premiers being in the bag for Harper and the Dutch disease meme he initiated have had much affect on most Canadians, even to thin-skinned westerners who so often become outraged at any perceived slight. The media is another story. The 90 percenter Conservative media continues to have a hernia over Mulcair’s remarks. Even the ‘most reasonable
Here’s another of the Causeway’s finest performers, Swan Walker. Swan plays mostly reggae though he salts his performances with songs from other genres. When he brings his big blue steel drums they give a whole new edge to tried and true reggae favorites. Best of all, though, in my opinion, is when Swan plays his own compositions – interesting tunes that provide a firm basis for lyrics that are intelligent and arresting. Swan’s another good reason for spending some time on the Causeway.
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close-up of southern area to be logged – airport on right
 Those present understood the philosophy of grassland reclamation but when it is in your own backyard and it is an area so valued by many it is hard to accept. A meeting of local residents and some frequent users of the airport/clearview lands(known as Rouse Pasture to the industry) met with Canfor employees on Wednesday May 16th in the location so valued, to discuss Canfor’s plans for the area and how the rest of the plans will be …
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In this South Arm Seniors Kitchen, Colleen introduced yet another new ingredient for dessert.
The dessert is Baked Plantains. Plantain cannot be consumed raw. It is used for cooking. When buying plantain, look for those with darken skin which indicate that it’s ripe. Colleen had a hard time finding ripe plantain when she went groceries shopping for the kitchen.
Ingredients
Source: via Colleen
More after the jump. Click to read the rest of Baked Plantains (120 …
by Jarrah Hodge
I’m pretty happy to have got my Feminism F.A.Q.s mojo back with this new edition: Did Feminists Burn Bras?
You may notice I have a bit of a new look for the videos and I’ve improved the sound quality significantly. I have two more new ones I’m in the process of editing and I re-filmed 3 of the older ones using the better mic and lighting, so I’ve removed those from my YouTube and the Feminism F.A.Q.s page on this website until that’s done.
As usual, please comment below if you …
Every time I see the signage for Kekuli Café, I wish myself a merry Christmas à la Bing Crosby. Why? I don’t know. There is no reason for me to do this. Kekuli looks nothing like Kalikimaka, does it?
It is early in the morning, but the weather is already comfortably warm in Westbank. When I arrive, the outside patio tables are already occupied by early bird diners.
Coffee
There’s a buzz on the street, and it isn’t good.
I’ve been bitten, more then once, twice, four times anything that a person should be and this is during the last few days. I can no longer water, garden, or even stand outside without some little nasty thing alighting on my skin like a berserk Tinkerbelle without the fluffy pink skirts.
I hate mosquitoes, they are just down right nasty…and they don’t touch my husband at all. I have heard various theories about why they love one person, and not another, I don’t …
Thursday, May 17
Square Foot Gardening Seminar
Presented by Doug Lyon
7pm, Cranbrook Public Library
The seminar fee is $10
Wednesday, May 23
Is It Friday Yet?
Country Singer Gord Bamford at the
Key City Theatre, 7:30pm
Tickets are $42.50 and are available at the KCT Box Office
Haiti Photos and Stories
The Go Go Grannies present Brian Clarkson’s photo journal
of his humanitarian trips to Haiti
7pm, College of the Rockies Lecture Theatre
Admission by donation
When I started my shade garden, years ago, where a previous tenant here had told me nothing would ever grow, one of the first plants I set in was London Pride. London Pride will grow anywhere; in waste urban lots, underfoot, in shade or sun, in dry ground, acid soil, on rocks, under snow, on weed-proof landscape fabric, even on concrete. They are impervious to slugs; deer and rabbits won’t eat them; they resist weeds, even our indefatigable buttercups; they stay bright green all winter, and flower prettily in spring. What more could I ask?
London Pride is a typical …
