Dec 30 2008
Before I created the Blork Blog, I had several other venues around the Web in which I enlightened the unwashed masses with my sparkling prose. One of them was Boots n’ All, a travel site “for the independent traveller.” I was its Montreal correspondent for about six months, during which I wrote half a dozen [...]
Dec 27 2008
Happy birthday to blork
Happy birthday to blork
Happy birthday dear blork blog
Happy birthday to blork
Dec 24 2008
Gak! French style green beans are easy enough to make, but I was poking around, looking for that magical tip that would elevate them to a higher level. That’s when I came upon this:
Oh, yes, dear readers, that’s a real recipe from Cooks.com. A 32 word recipe in which the word “can” appears three times. [...]
Dec 22 2008
Before Blork there was Raggafragga. Raggafragga.com was my first registered URL; it was intended to be a hub, or portal, for all of my publishing activities (oh, those heady days of 1999). There was going to be Raggafragga Tech (my freelance technical writing service), Raggafragga Online (which I described as “an online journal dedicated to [...]
Dec 10 2008
This time of year when we’re all a bit stressed over the holiday shopping it might be worthwhile to consider some alternatives to the standard “shop ’til you drop” thing. For example, Gifts That Matter, run by CHF (which calls itself “formerly the Canadian Hunger Foundation” and is one of Canada’s longest standing non-governmental organizations) [...]
Dec 08 2008
It’s -20ºC out there this morning. Ow.
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But check out the forecast for the rest of the week:
We’re in for a crazy ride!
Dec 02 2008
Wait! Don’t take me out of your RSS feeds just because of last weekend’s pizza FAIL. I had two small balls of dough left over, so tonight I redeemed myself by making two small but beautiful pizzas.
This time I let the dough rest out of the fridge all day long. (I had no choice, as [...]
