Category Archives: Blogosphere

RSS: No, I didn’t notice your new website’s theme.

By Catherine Winters | Published: July 12, 2010
Over at the Future Shop Tech Blog, I wrote about RSS feeds, and how I organize them to stay up to date with everything from blog posts to Craigslist searches. If you’re like me and subscribe to hundreds of different feeds, it’s important to figure out a good workflow that helps you focus on what’s [...]
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WordCamp Vancouver 2010: Tris and Catherine tell you why your current WordPress theme sucks.

By Catherine Winters | Published: June 13, 2010
So! WordCamp Vancouver 2010, huh? That was pretty good, I thought. I particularly enjoyed the “Is WordPress a CMS?” panel featuring Dave, Christine and Cam. Consensus: Sort of! Maybe! As promised, Tris Hussey and I presented “WordPress 3.0 & Parent-Child Themes” Being a generally nice sort of person, I let Tris cover the whole, “check [...]
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Catherine is speaking at WordCamp Vancouver 2010

By Catherine Winters | Published: June 1, 2010
Happy news, Vancouver-area WordPress users! I’m pleased to confirm that, yes, I will be at WordCamp Vancouver 2010 on June 12. I’ll be speaking with Tris Hussey about the upcoming (Possibly just-released by then!) WordPress 3.0 and child themes. For more information about child themes, check out Tris’ blog. Personally, I’m excited about the new [...]
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Boobquake: in which Catherine gets annoyed at the press

By Catherine Winters | Published: April 26, 2010
“So! Boobs, huh?” That’s right, boobs. Or what-have-you. “I don’t get it.” Well, the other day, Tehran’s acting Friday prayer leader Hojatoleslam Kazem Sedighi–yes, he’s not even an Ayatollah. I know, right?–went and said some crazy shit about boobs and how they cause earthquakes. Or more specifically, no, he didn’t really. As PBS explains: While delivering [...]
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Catherine Winters is not the top hit for “Second Life Vancouver”

By Catherine Winters | Published: July 31, 2009
This week, the Georgia Straight’s Stephen Hui interviewed me for Straight.com’s weekly Geek Speak feature. I just finished reading the interview and I’m happy to confirm that I didn’t sound insane or say anything terribly inappropriate this time. I find I do have something of a tendency to do this. If we’ve spoken in any [...]
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Critical Pride Part 2: Midnight Mass & the Dyke March

By Catherine Winters | Published: July 30, 2009
As a followup to some of the discussion resulting from yesterday’s post comparing Pride and Critical Mass, I thought I’d extend the metaphor to my preferred alternative events: Midnight Mass and the Dyke March. Speaking personally, Pride is generally not generally my thing: it’s loud, it’s hot, and the parade, at least, is not really participatory. [...]
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Critical Pride

By Catherine Winters | Published: July 29, 2009
On his blog this morning, Buzz Bishop posed the question: Are you proud of Pride? In his post, Buzz asks if the imagery we’ll see in Vancouver’s Pride Parade this Sunday is really the best way to demonstrate that gays are just like everyone else. This reminded me of another familiar argument, about Critical Mass: are [...]
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Blogathon 2009: What does Marcellus Wallace look like?

By Catherine Winters | Published: July 25, 2009
So I’m working on a single-serving site to finally make use of my other domain. Functionally, it’ll be a business card of sorts, featuring a more coherent bio, with links to the various ways I can be contacted online. Ultimately, I suspect I’ll roll this site into it. Anyway, while the art style I’m using is [...]
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Blogathon 2009: All in One SEO Pack must be configured.

By Catherine Winters | Published: July 25, 2009
So earlier today, I was informed by all-around nice guy and occasional WordPress-handholder Tris Hussey that I ought to be using the All in One SEO Pack on my WordPress blog. So I got it, only to discover that all the config fields were empty. Apparently version 1.6.4 has a bit of a problem with [...]
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Blogathon 2009: What kind of site do you think this is, anyway?

By Catherine Winters | Published: July 25, 2009
So I was checking out my Google Analytics stats just now to gauge the impact Blogathon is having upon my site traffic. Answer: lots. Obviously. However, I couldn’t help but notice a number of interesting searches by which people are coming here. Okay, that’s different. Other bewildering search terms people used to arrive here include: [...]
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