May 19 2008
Although I haven’t written about food much lately, this blog is identified by various categorization schemes as a “food blog.” As such, I have gotten on the mailing lists of a number of book publishers and they have been offering me free food related books in the hope that I’ll review, or at least mention, […]
Apr 14 2008
When I’m making my various trips through the Web it drives me crazy that there are no standards for how to represent the “previous” and “next” page (or message) links on Web sites. For example, in Yahoo Mail (classic view), when you get to the bottom of a page of messages and want to go […]
Mar 31 2008
Mikel recently made a plea to people who use “Snap Shots” on their blogs to please reconsider. Snap Shots (sometimes referred to simply as “Snap”) is that highly annoying feature that pops up an ad-filled preview of the target whenever you roll your cursor over a link on a Web page (usually a blog). Here’s […]
Jan 30 2008
Frank the Chicagoan has tagged me for the “Six Quirks” meme.
The rules:
Link to the person that tagged you.
Post the rules on your blog.
Share six non-important things/habits/quirks about yourself.
Tag six random people at the end of your post by linking to their blogs.
Let each random person know they have been tagged by leaving a comment on […]
Jan 21 2008
CBC runs the occasional “Test the Nation” quiz show on TV, and while I’ve had a mild interest in playing along I always manage to miss it. It ran again last night (the “trivia” version), and Martine and I recorded it although we only watched it for a few minutes. Doing so prompted me to […]
Jan 17 2008
Voting for “round one” is on at the Canadian Blog Awards. A few things have changed at the CBA since last year, the most notable being the voting mechanism. It’s now done through Polldaddy, which probably makes it a lot less complicated for the person who’s running the awards but unfortunately makes it far […]
Dec 29 2007
This blog turned seven years old on December 27. Seven years! That’s 449,345 words in 1,518 posts.
To celebrate, I upgraded to Wordpress 2.3.1, and added a plugin that makes my archives appear in a drop-down list. Go me.
