It’s long being bugging me that I have to click on most of my blog friends blogs to see whether they’ve updated recently, particularly those finicky ones who complain if I make links on my blog to theirs. So yesterday I finally linked myself to the RSS Feeds of those blogs which have RSS. This morning I saw that Lemmingworks had 3 new posts. It’s all good & so easy. 
I’ll even be able to tell when the finicky friends have been blogging. Now if only those one or two of you for whom this didn’t work could get on the RSS bandwagon, my problems would be solved. 
Feb 26 2006
I Could Get Used to This.
Feb 25 2006
Me and Norman Spector?
Prone as I sometimes am to the vanity search on google, I found out the other day that my last letter printed in the Globe and Mail (Jan. 13, 2006) was selected by Norman Spector as one of his “Letters of the Day” (See Here).
I am shocked and dismayed. I disagree sostrongly with Mr. Spector’s columns and opinions that I can’t read a single megabyte he’s written. Yet there I am. Letter of the Day on his site — not doubt a site frequented by Canadian right-wingers everywhere and their friends. Me & Norman Spector? It just goes to show that there’s a little of the left in everyone, I hope! 
Feb 22 2006
Free Dragon
My good friend Free Dragon is going away tomorrow because she’s finished this phase of her life & is moving to the next one. This is great, but I’ll miss her a lot. So this post is just for her. And so is the song you’ll hear if you visit this site and click on the house.
xo xo Clevergirl.
Feb 22 2006
Yakiting at York
I gave a presentation today at York’s Centre for Refugee Studies. I love visiting the CRS and seeing all the nice familiar faces there. It’s a great environment & a great place to be most of the time.
Attendance was down, though… 
I don’t know if that’s a regular problem at CRS lunchtime series. Certainly it’s an issue at various places @ UofT. And that’s a strange thing, because lunchtime speaker series are so popular at Toronto’s universities. One could literally go to an event 5 days a week, if so moved. Perhaps the real issue is that there’s too much choice.
Ah well, at least it helped me think about the diss some.
Feb 19 2006
Four Things
Four Things:
A Lists of Four meme that’s going around the Internet.
Four jobs I’ve had in my life:
Swim Instructor & Lifeguard
ESL Teacher
Manager of Aid Programs/Projects
Grad Student
Four movies I can watch over and over:
Gone with the Wind
Auntie Mame
Boys Don’t Cry (it was the only movie for rent in Pakistan which wasn’t a kitchy Hollywood Blockbuster resulting in multiple watchings and I think I can still do it)
Pretty Much Anything by Depa Metha or Pedro Almodovar.
Four TV shows I love to watch:
Air Farce
BBC World News @ 6pm on Newsworld
The News Hour with Jim Leher
Whatever is on the Food Network
Four places I’ve been on vacation:
China
Syria
Lebanon
Lao PDR
Four of my favorite dishes :
Roti Channai
Rava Masala Dosa
Jason’s Pizza
Mezze homemade by yours truly
Four websites I visit daily:
Yahoo
Clevergirl
Jumpinjulia
OISE
Four places I would rather be right now:
Beirut
Islamabad
Nicaragua
Malaysia
Four bloggers I am tagging :
Kristiface
This ain’t grandma’s place
The person who won’t let me link to his blog
Free Dragon
Feb 17 2006
Li’s Presentation
If you are around OISE campus on Feb 20 between the hours of 11:30-1pm, please join Li Koo on Feb 20 at the CIDE Monday group presentation of
“The Necessity of Developing Critical Literacy in Media and Technology.”
Li Koo will explore how the notion of “choice” and “opportunity” is presented and affected by media and technology.
Are students able to make informed choices or recognize a hidden curriculum objectively? Is there a growing divide between educators, students and their parents? The most obvious difference may be the generation gap; however, given the rapid development in technology are methods of learning and communication affecting or affected by current power structures? Are differences in capital be it human, social, economic or political capital going to expand or contract?
Room 7-105, Cide “Smart Room” Monday February 20, 11:30am-1pm.
Feb 15 2006
Clever ME Blogs
When I first started Flailing, I used to make regular comments on events in the Middle East. And then I discovered that there is a large contingent of young Middle Easterners engaged in blogging themselves. There stories, thoughts, and ideas encourage me. I used to read them all regularly, but that was before Flailing had her blow out. Yesterday I decided to check up on them all and see what’s happening in the world through their eyes. And so I added them back to my links column. I don’t want to call these blogs “war” blogs — as is common on the WWW. A war is too violent, too aggressive. It insinuates that these bloggers are waging a war themselves. Perhaps they are — in a way! But in fact they are the civilian vicitms of war and we are the interlopers experiencing it through their eyes. Would I still be reading their blogs if their countries had not been invaded by foreigners? Absolutely! The ME has been an intimate part of my life for more than half of it. I am in this for the long haul. So… It’s Clever ME Blogs for me!
If you have 10 minutes to spare, please check out their blogs and their friends’ blogs. Be informed. Stay informed.
Feb 12 2006
Not the Same, But Not Necessarily Better
From today’s NYT (Style Section pg. 13) Modern Love Essay by Daniel Jones
Large numbers of people report approaching online dating with great trepidation, then quickly embracing it for the great fun and smorgasbord-like temptation it presents, then allowing themselves to imagine that the person with whom they are corresponding is their own true love, and finally facing profound disappointment when the process ends in a face-to-face meeting with an acutal, flawed human being who doesn’t look like a JPEG or talk like an email message.
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