Engineering an Interesting Life
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Simple Steps that Reduced my Bounce Rate
Given that my current project is all about engagement, it’s probably not surprising that I’m more focused on engagement with my website than number of hits. Here’s my SEO strategy: write content, post regularly, give pages different names, insert images properly. That’s it. However the bounce rate is more interesting – that’s the number of…
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Facebook’s Got Your Mail
It’s long been the case that in times of stress, I stop responding to email. Right now is a time of extreme stress (this week I have to write a paper, mark an assignment, and have an interview) and I’ve stopped even reading it. I’m monitoring my iPhone for genuine emergencies, but if it doesn’t…
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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-02-07
February is career month for @uOttawaWISE! Upcoming we have @launchitright @thecodefactory and @mypromotion. Excited? I am! # Loving what I can see of this guy Edward Marcotte's visualizations, but can't find them anywhere! Any leads? http://bit.ly/c7p73x # How to hate the ipad – a breakdown of the backlash – http://bit.ly/961HSK /cc @gailcarmichael # Reading "Living…
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Progress
How do you define progress? As a grad student, the weeks I spend reading papers and thinking don’t feel like progress – it’s the week, or day, or hour, when things start to come together that does. In going back to training, it’s not the gradual improvements in fitness and energy. It’s when I can…
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Week in Brief
This week: IBM Case Study Competition Ski Instructing Ski training (yay!) – long story, but didn’t happen :'( Finish Science Teacher Talk Write up proposal. Write up two pages outlining work so far. Meeting with supervisors. – really great meeting, very inspired afterwards. Working on paper, needs to be done for next week. Marking. Kickbox…
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January
Overall How’s this month been? I’ve made progress on my work, but not as much as I want to. I’m doing more exercise, but not as much as I want to. In all, I guess things are going okay. Not great, but not bad either. Everything is still possible. For February, I think it’s just…
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Rediscovering Balance
My life has been out of balance for as long as I can clearly remember. And I know, the most successful women embrace that imbalance but my feeling is that mine has been too far out of balance, or perhaps just too imbalanced in the wrong way. Last semester, I was in so much pain…
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Science Teacher Talk: Information -> Meaning
Initial draft of a talk I’m supposed to be giving in February. Information -> Meaning Before the printing press, literacy rates were really low, and the average book was the bible. This was all people had by way of information. The printing press caused a revolution. 100 years later, humans had more information than they…