One addendum to my post from yesterday about the blogging article in the Times. Okay, maybe two.

1-The comments. In places, they are interesting. And, while I certainly understand how someone could be perturbed by the fact that this article (a) yesterday was linked to from near the top of the Times' home page, and; (b) will appear on the cover of ( Read more... )

The cover story of the next issue of the New York Times Magazine is about blogging. I've already read it, and while it tails off and goes mostly into personal details after a point, I relate really, really well to at least parts of the first page:

Some of my blog’s readers were my friends in real life, and even the ones who weren’t acted like ( Read more... )

Guantanamo Bay travel guide. In case any of you plan to take an all-inclusive there anytime soon.

I know next to nothing about the technical aspects of the Internet, but I know what I like and what I don't like and something I don't like is happening more and more frequently. In layman's terms, I don't like when I use my browser's back and forward buttons and the page that I'm going back or forward to automatically refreshes. The downside is ( Read more... )

Last night, while watching my Senators lose a heartbreaker to the Sabres, I saw three ads that made me laugh. Or cringe. Or both.

The first one, denkizero and I laughed pretty hard at together the other night. It's for a jewellery place in Ottawa, and it features one of the Senators, Jason Spezza. They show one of his more spectacular goals of the season, ( Read more... )