Category Archives: Blog

Friday Fun Link – "Don't Mind Me, I'm Dead" – How The Public Library Became Heartbreak Hotel (April 6, 2007)

I've addressed this before but my readership has grown quite a bit since the last time I talked about it so I'll give some background on the FFL's again.  My “Friday Fun Links” started as a way to provide regular content when I set up a listserv for the Writers Guild of Alberta.  When I […]

Can You Memorize These 100 SKU Codes By Friday?

Is there any job you start where you don't get overwhelmed with information the first day?  When I started working at a gas station at 14 or 15, they handed me a list of 100 SKU codes for every product we sold and told me to have it memorized by the weekend.  I also had […]

Blog Might Go Down

I haven't looked at my traffic stats for awhile so imagine my surprise when I log in today and see that I'm really close to my bandwidth limit.  I had an issue with this shutting down the blog back in November and December but had my bandwidth limit doubled, figuring that would suffice until I […]

New Bookmarking Widget Added

I've put a bookmarking widget up on the top left of this site that will allow you to submit my site (and any individual page or range of pages – ie. all pages within a category or a keyword) to any of thirty or so social bookmarking sites.  This includes all the major services – […]

On Other Blogs…

I know that everybody who reads this blog doesn't necessarily read all of the same blogs that I do.  So every once in awhile, I like to highlight some of the great entries I've found elsewhere.  For example, Meshell had a great post on what exactly a blog is, why people do it and a […]

Ding Dong – The Streak Is Dead!

Well, after nearly six months straight of daily posts (a quick run through the sidebar calendar shows Aug 30/06 was the last day I missed!), the streak ended yesterday.  (There was also a missing date on December 24 but I know I posted that day – not sure why it doesn't show up on the […]

"Blogs, they're what old people do now."

“Blogs, they're what old people do now…E-mail is the same way. The youngest generation of Internet users don't bother with blogs or e-mail, preferring social sites such as MySpace and instant messaging to stay in touch.” – Librarian.net's Jessamyn West, profiled in the “Everybody's Interesting” column of Valley News…although to be fair, the article does […]

Randomness (Happy Groundhog Day!)

Saskatchewan Round-UpSask Government Insurance, a crown corporation that provides insurance to all drivers in our province, is offering $180 rebates to safe drivers on their automobile insurance and lowering rates by an average of 5% as well (when we already have the lowest auto insurance rates in Canada – why do you think I love […]

Head Tale – Anniversary Survey

Today is 11 months to the day that I started this blog.  And sure, if I wanted to be like everybody else, I could wait another month to post this on my much more appropriate one year anniversary.  But since I'm thinking of it right now, I'll post it now instead…I've created a really quick […]

Bend It Like Oscar!

Today's the first day we felt Oscar kick!  Well, Shea's been feeling it internally for a few weeks.  But today's the first time we could feel the thump on the outside.  According to Shea, the kid likes to kick like nobody's business.  (Hopefully a $250 million soccer contract is in his (or her – must […]