Category Archives: Learning is fun!

Catherine’s Guide to Backups, Part 1

By Catherine Winters | Published: February 23, 2010
So there I was at Best Buy, finally taking care of that “backups” business.1 Since Apple added their super-convenient Time Machine app to Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, I’d been meaning to get around to using it. A year later, I bought a simple external USB drive, a Western Digital MyPassport. Easy. Tiny. USB-powered.2 So [...]
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Catherine Grows as a Person

By Catherine Winters | Published: July 8, 2009
Since attending Media that Matters 2009 at Hollyhock this May, I’ve been feeling very introspective. To say I was skeptical of some aspects of the conference beforehand would be a terrible, terrible understatement. On the ride up with former coworker Jnet: Her: “So are you recovered from your flu?” [Swine flu, I swear.] Me: “I [...]
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Social Tech Brewing Vancouver — Learning in Virtual Worlds!

By Catherine Winters | Published: March 19, 2007
This Wednesday, (March 21st, 2007) I and the rest of the Social Signal team will be at Social Tech Brewing Vancouver, for this month’s topic, “Learning in Virtual Worlds”.* From the Social Signal blog: If you work at the intersection of technology and community-building, we hope you’ll join us for the March gathering of Social [...]
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Why is the Pentagon pentagonal?

By Catherine Winters | Published: March 5, 2007
One of benefits of being me is that I have the sort of random thoughts that other people can generally only experience during some kind of medical experiment involving the injection of highly concentrated THC directly into the brain. For example, when drifting off to sleep the other night, it occurred to me to ask: [...]
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