Some of my favourite tweets
Over on Dave’s blog, he put up a screenshot of some of his favourite Tweets. Always one to steal Dave’s ideas recognize a good thing, I’m stealing Dave’s idea going to show you some of my favourite tweets: →Read more
Apparently, I’m part of the "Net Generation"
I was reading this new story about some dude who wrote a book about “kids these days” and this sentence caught my attention: Don Tapscott says those weaned on the Internet — people born roughly between 1977 and 1997 — are more politically savvy, socially engaged and family-centred than society gives them credit for. 1977? […] →Read more
Grammar Snob: Presidential election edition
OK, I have to say this because it’s been driving me crazy. The election of the first African-American president is an historic event. I can’t count how many times I have read and heard in the last two days that it was an historical event. Now, technically it is true that it was an historical […] →Read more
Price of Snail Mail About to Rise
Starting in January, the price of stamps is going up from 52¢ to 54¢. Yeah, I still send things via snail mail. My entire family and many of my friends live out east and there are some things that you just can’t fit through the tubes of the Internet. In preparation for the rise, I […] →Read more
Gender Analyzer FAIL
Apparently, I write like a man: Dave brought this to my attention yesterday. He thinks that it’s all the “bawdy talk going on” that makes GenderAnalyzer think I’m a dude. I think may have to do with all the talk about hockey. Although I’m not sure how to reconcile all the talk about the hotness […] →Read more
The 44th President of the United States
Wikipedia is quick. I took this screenshot just as Obama was starting his victory speech: Also, I like that Obama promised his daughters a puppy when they move to the White House! →Read more
President Barack Obama!
Looks like my democratic blue shirt worked. =) →Read more
Babe for Obama
Sorry. Couldn’t resist that title after the title of my earlier post. As you can see, I wore my democratic blue shirt today, in honour of Barack! Just over half an hour left ’til the first polls close in the eastern United States and the results start pouring in. To my American readers: thanks to […] →Read more
Babies for Obama
In honour1 of today’s US Presidential election, I give you this: Babies for Obama: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DMiAeUG0IM] I saw this over at Feministing, where I also read that in the U.S., if you bring in proof of voting, you can not only get free ice cream from Benny & Jerry’s, but you can also get a free […] →Read more
Thank goodness for Akismet!
The other day when I logged in to WordPress, I noticed that I had exactly 3333 total comments1 on my blog: That’s a nice number: 3333. But then I realized that 550 were spam. Boo spam. And then, on top of that, Akismet has saved me from a further 6741 spam comments! That’s 2.6 spam […] →Read more